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
- REF Impact Fund: rolling deadline
- All Council Harmonised IAA Impact Starter Fund Call 2022-2026: rolling deadline
- Policy Innovation Fund 2025: 30 June 2025
- Public Engagement Starter Fund: 05 September 2025
- Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund: 05 September 2025
- Cambridge Centre for Data-driven Discovery and Accelerate Science Funding Call 2025: 12 September 2025
- Enhancing Research Culture Fund: 15 September 2025
Early Career Researchers: Grants
- International Writing Workshops 2025: 17 September 2025
- International Interdisciplinary Research Projects 2026: 17 September 2025
- Wellcome Trust Early Career Award: 30 September 2025
- MSCA Staff Exchanges call: 08 October 2025
- Wellcome Trust Career Development Award: 20 November 2025
Established Researchers: Grants
- Advanced Grant | ERC: 28 August 2025
- Wellcome Trust Discovery Award: 29 August 2025
- UKRI Gambling Harms Research Coordination Centre (GHRCC):16 September 2025
- Gambling harms research and innovation partnerships:16 September 2025
- International Writing Workshops 2025: 17 September 2025
- International Interdisciplinary Research Projects 2026: 17 September 2025
- MSCA Staff Exchanges call: 08 October 2025
- Pre-announcement: DARE UK Real-world Research Exemplar Programme: 05 November 2025
- Collaborative doctoral landscape award in the arts and humanities: 20 November 2025
- Wellcome Trust Career Development Award: 20 November 2025
- Wellcome Trust Discovery Award: 25 November 2025
Early Career Researchers: Fellowships
- UKRI policy fellowships 2025: 15 July 2025
- BA Innovation Fellowships 2025-26 – Route B: Policy-led (Sustainable Futures): 06 August 2025
- MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships: 10 September 2025
Established Researchers: Fellowships
- UKRI policy fellowships 2025: 15 July 2025
- BA Innovation Fellowships 2025-26 – Route B: Policy-led (Sustainable Futures): 06 August 2025
- APEX Award: 09 September 2025
- Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorships: 02 October 2025
