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
- Cambridge Humanities Research Grant: 28 April 2025; 16 June 2025
- CRASSH Research Networks: 02 May 2025
- Returning Carers Scheme: 15 May 2025
- Collection-based Research in the Humanities: 30 May 2025
Early Career Researchers: Grants
- Being Human Festival: 6–15 November 2025, Institutional Grant to Run a Festival Hub: 10 April 2025
- Being Human Festival: 6–15 November 2025, Festival Event Grant to Run Single or Multiple Events: 10 April 2025
- BAICE Seedcorn and Research Capacity / Network grant: 01 May 2025
- Wellcome Trust Early-Career Awards: 22 May 2025
- MSCA Staff Exchanges call: 08 October 2025
Established Researchers: Grants
- Nuffield Foundation Research, Development and Analysis Fund: 01 April 2025
- Welsh Election Study 2026: 01 April 2025
- Career Development Awards - Funding for Mid-Career Researchers | Wellcome: 03 April 2025
- Wellcome Trust Discovery Awards: 08 April 2025
- Being Human Festival: 6–15 November 2025, Institutional Grant to Run a Festival Hub: 10 April 2025
- Being Human Festival: 6–15 November 2025, Festival Event Grant to Run Single or Multiple Events: 10 April 2025
- Pre-announcement: Locally Unlocking Culture through Inclusive Access (LUCIA): 25 April 2025
- BAICE Seedcorn and Research Capacity / Network grant: 01 May 2025
- Pre-announcement: UKRI Creating opportunities: rethinking economic (in)activity: 06 May 2025
- P2R: increasing UK policymaker engagement with research: 06 May 2025
- Access to high performance computing facilities: spring 2025: 22 May 2025
- Interdisciplinary research to tackle epidemic threats: 19 June 2025
- Wellcome Trust Career Development Award: 24 June 2025
- Advanced Grant | ERC: 28 August 2025
- Wellcome Trust Discovery Award: 29 August 2025
- MSCA Staff Exchanges call: 08 October 2025
Early Career Researchers: Fellowships
- LUCIA-Local Government Association (LGA) ECR fellowship programme: 10 April 2025
- Pre-announcement: UKRI Metascience AI early career fellowship: 10 April 2025
- Centre-UB Early Career Researcher Fellowships 2025: 01 May 2025 (EoI)
- Philip Leverhulme Prize: 14 May 2025
- MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships: 10 September 2025
Established Researchers: Fellowships
- Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorships: 01 May 2025
- Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowships: 09 May 2025
