Calendar of External & Internal Funding Opportunities

*Please note that funder deadlines are listed on this calendar. Please be in touch with your department's Research Grants Administrator (RGA) to confirm what internal deadlines might apply.

The listing below divides funding opportunities into five categories: 1) Internal Opportunities, 2) Grants for Early Career Researchers, 3) Grants for Established Researchers, 4) Fellowships for Early Career Researchers and 5) Fellowships for Established Researchers.

Internal Funding

• Large Grant Contribution Fund: rolling deadline; minimum 4 weeks before funder deadline
• Bid Preparation Fund: rolling deadline
• Arts, Humanities and Social Science: Impact Starter Fund 2025-26: rolling deadline
• Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund: 03 September 2026
• Public Engagement Starter Fund (04 September 2026)
• DAAD-University of Cambridge Research Hub for German Studies Call for Workshops, Visiting Scholars and Public Engagement Activities (13 September 2026)
• DAAD-Cambridge Research Hub for German Studies Call for Long Term Projects Starting 2027 (13 September 2026)
• AI-deas Sprint Programme 2026 (14 September 2026)
• West Hub Small Grants Programme (15 September 2026)
• INT Emergency Bridge & Underwriting: 24 September 2026, MT deadline; 21 January 2027, LT deadline
• Keynes Fund Call for Projects: 25 September 2026
• Global Humanities Mobility Scheme: TBC September 2026
• CRASSH Connections Events: 18 October 2026
• CRASSH Events and Initiatives Funding Competition: 18 October 2026
• Bioscience Impact and Knowledge Exchange (BIKE) Fund (23 October 2026)
• Strategic Research Project, Isaac Newton Trust  (Outline: 21 January 2027; Full Stage: 13 May 2027)

Early Career Researchers: Grants

• SHAPE Involve and Engage: 15 September 2026
• BA International Interdisciplinary Research Projects 2027: 07 October 2026
• BA Talent Development Award: 07 October 2026
• A guide for the commercialisation of Creative Industries Research: 15 October 2026
• Pre-announcement: Trust and confidence in policing: R&I Consortium: 27 October 2026
• Core Research Grants, Russell Sage Foundation: 28 October 2026
• Wellcome Early-Career Awards: 10 November 2026
• Wellcome Career Development Awards: 17 November 2026
• Pre-announcement: Experimental medicine to define mechanisms of gambling disorder: 14 April 2027

Established Researchers: Grants

• Leverhulme Visiting Professorship: 01 September 2026
• NIHR Research Professorships Cohort 17: 01 September 2026 (SHSS internal deadline)
• Commercialising Knowledge Assts Fund (CKAF) autumn: 01 September 2026
• ERC Plus Grant: 02 September 2026
• APEX Awards: 08 September 2026
• SHAPE Involve and Engage: 15 September 2026
• AHRC large grants: outline stage: 16 September 2026
• ERC Proof of Concept: 17 September 2026
• The Wellcome Prize for Mental Health Science with Nature: 18 September 2026
• Wellcome Trust Discovery Award: 22 September 2026
• Nuffield Trust Main Grants (Research, Development and Analysis Fund): 05 October 2026
• Nuffield Trust Racial Diversity UK Fund: 05 October 2026
• BA International Interdisciplinary Research Projects 2027: 07 October 2026
• BA Talent Development Award: 07 October 2026
• ESRC React Awards (pilot): outline: 08 October 2026
• A guide for the commercialisation of Creative Industries Research: 15 October 2026
• Core Research Grants, Russell Sage Foundation: 28 October 2026
• Wellcome Career Development Awards: 17 November 2026
• Unlocking advanced capabilities in conservation and heritage science: 25 November 2026
• RICHeS Access Fund: 30 November 2026
• Pre-announcement: Experimental medicine to define mechanisms of gambling disorder: 14 April 2027

Early Career Researchers: Fellowships

• MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship: 09 September 2026
• Sector transition: UKRI policy fellowships 2026: 10 September 2026
• Global Innovation Fellowships: The German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) 2026-2027: 14 October 2026

Established Researchers: Fellowships

• Sector transition: UKRI policy fellowships 2026: 10 September 2026
• Andrew Carnegie Fellowships 2027: 22 September [restricted internal deadline]
• Global Innovation Fellowships: The German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) 2026-2027: 14 October 2026
• Gulbenkian Institute for Advanced Study: 15 October 2026
• Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorships: 01 October 2027