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Ernest Rutherford Fellowship 2025

STFC is offering up to 10 Ernest Rutherford Fellowships to exceptional researchers at an early stage of their career. The aim is to support future scientific leaders to establish a strong, independent research programme.

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

Health Technologies Connectivity Awards: round two

Apply for funding to spend time in a different research or user environment to build new skills and collaborations applicable to health technologies. Novel engineering and physical sciences research must comprise a proportion of the placement.

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

Canada-UK semiconductors

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of at least £1 million for collaboration with Canadian small and medium-sized enterprises on joint semiconductors projects.

STFC leadership fellowships in public engagement

Apply for funding to support a leadership role in engaging the public with STFC supported science, technology or facilities.

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

Future Leaders Fellowships: round 10, business and non-academic

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £110 million for ambitious research and innovation projects in any sector, and tailored support to develop careers for future leaders.

Collaborative doctoral landscape award in the arts and humanities

Apply for a collaborative doctoral landscape award in the arts and humanities. These awards enable UK non-higher education institutions (non-HEI), individual or consortia, to support high-quality doctoral training.

Researching ME/CFS: priority area

Apply for funding to research myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as ME/CFS.

BBSRC Brazil pump-priming award

You can apply for up to £35,000 over two years to pump-prime collaborations between scientists in the UK and São Paolo state in Brazil. The awards support the development of future applications within our remit under the UK Research and Innovation-São Paulo Research Foundation lead agency agreement.

Knowledge Transfer Partnership

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships help businesses to partner with an academic organisation, research organisation or a Catapult, to employ a graduate with the skills and knowledge that can help the business to innovate and grow.

Return to research support bursary

You can apply for this bursary if you are a researcher looking to return to an academic research career after a break of two or more years.

You can get funding of up to £2,500 for no more than six months to support you in developing a proposal suitable for submission to the STFC fellowship scheme.

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