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International Fellowships for PhD and Early Career Researchers 2025

Apply to undertake a funded fellowship at an international cultural institution.

You must be either:

  • a PhD student currently funded by AHRC (or ESRC for Library of Congress only)
  • an early career researcher based at a UK research organisation eligible for AHRC funding

ESRC postdoctoral fellowships

Apply for a postdoctoral fellowship to develop your career by consolidating your PhD through developing publications, your networks and your research and professional skills.

Fellowships must be held at a research organisation that is part of a Doctoral Training Partnership.

Pre-announcement: Future Leaders Fellowships: round 10

Funding to support ambitious research and innovation across UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)’s remit. You must be an early career researcher or innovator who is either:

  • looking to establish or transition to independence
  • developing your own original and ambitious plans within a commercial setting

UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Renewal Meeting 11 (Invite only)

Future Leaders Fellowships (FLF) grant holders have the opportunity to extend their four-year fellowship by up to a further three years. The renewal funding will continue to support the development of a fellow and further the fellow’s work to undertake adventurous, ambitious programmes that tackle difficult and novel challenges.

Data sandpit for metascience

Apply to attend a four-day interactive sandpit to develop novel projects that can address multi-faceted metascience questions related to research and development (R&D) funding and inform R&D policymaking.

The sandpit will take place in February 2025. Attendance for the full four days will be mandatory for selected participants.

Access to high performance computing facilities – autumn 2024

This opportunity provides an open and flexible route to computational support for high quality projects across the entire UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) remit.

This application process is purely for compute resource for up to 12 months. No funding is available to successful applicants.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding.

UK future internet NetworkPlus: full application invite only

Apply for funding for a UK future internet NetworkPlus which brings together the research community and stakeholders.

This funding opportunity is part of the UKRI Creating Opportunities, Improving Outcomes strategic theme. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding.

DARE UK Transformational Programme: core components

Apply for funding to transition minimum viable product capabilities to production-ready reference implementations, ready for testing and adoption in real-world research settings by Trusted Research Environments.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UK Research and Innovation funding.

Apply to be recognised as a Policing Academic Centre of Excellence

The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) and UKRI will fund nine Policing Academic Centres of Excellence (P-ACEs) to increase the accessibility and use of research evidence, science and technology in policing.

The lead organisation must be a UK research organisation eligible for ESRC funding.

Transforming global evidence: AI-driven evidence synthesis for policymaking

Apply for funding to develop and administer a global evidence synthesis infrastructure. This infrastructure will significantly increase capability in researcher and AI-driven evidence synthesis for policymaking.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for ESRC funding.

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