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Welsh Election Study 2026

Apply for funding to run the Welsh Election Study for the 2026 devolved election.

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

Scottish Election Study 2026 (invite only)

This is an invite only opportunity for funding to run the Scottish Election Study for the 2026 devolved election.

Research skills leadership hub: full (Invite only)

Invited teams can apply for funding to deliver a new strategic leadership hub that supports the development and delivery of research skills training and capacity building provision in the social sciences.

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

UKRI Metascience AI early career fellowships

The UK Metascience Unit will fund a cohort of early career fellows to build our understanding of how the growing adoption of AI is changing the research landscape, including what epistemic, metascientific, ethical and socioeconomic questions this raises, and how governments, industry, and funding organisations should respond.

P2R: increasing UK policymaker engagement with research

Apply for funding to develop and expand UK-wide policy to research (P2R) infrastructure facilitating direct connections between public and civil servants and research organisations.

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

UKRI Creating opportunities: rethinking economic (in)activity

Apply for funding to identify ways of supporting economic activity in places experiencing high rates of ill-health, disability, and informal care in the UK.

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

Early Life Cohort longitudinal study

Apply for funding to lead the Early Life Cohort (ELC) on behalf of the broader research community. The ELC offers a once in a lifetime opportunity to generate new research and policy insights on how the early and ongoing life experiences of children born in the 2020s and growing up in the UK shape their future outcomes.

This is an invite only funding opportunity, and the project lead must be the agreed person from the Centre for Longitudinal Studies to apply.

Centre-UB Early Career Researcher Fellowships 2025

The Centre for National Training and Research Excellence in Understanding Behaviour (Centre-UB) are now inviting applications for a second cohort of fellows, expected to start in October 2025.

Access to high performance computing facilities: spring 2025

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. No funding is available to successful applicants.

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

Proof of concept

Apply for proof of concept funding to support the commercialisation of research and the development of new products, processes or services.

Applications from across all disciplines and research councils’ remits are welcomed.

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