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Pre-announcement: ESRC applicant-led: grow awards

Apply for funding to make a step-change in your career. Grow awards support individual researchers at key career points to develop capabilities or pivot direction, strengthening the UK’s social science research base.

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

Pre-announcement: ESRC applicant-led: explore awards

Apply for funding to advance knowledge through ambitious, curiosity-driven social science. Explore awards support individuals or small teams to pursue bold, novel ideas within ESRC’s remit that advance knowledge.

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

Pre-announcement: ESRC applicant-led: challenge awards

Apply for funding to bring people, expertise and ideas together in ambitious, larger-scale programmes. Challenge awards tackle major research, economic and societal challenges, generating impactful knowledge and innovation.

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

Water4All 2026 call: sustainable water management

Apply for funding to increase our understanding, assessment, management, and governance of water across scales, from catchment to groundwater and from source to sea. Enable better decision-making for public authorities, water managers, and other stakeholders.

Economic research on the returns to R&D investment

Apply for funding to support research that can help develop new measurements of the return on investments in research and development (R&D).

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

MRC Centre of Research Excellence: round five: outline application

Apply for MRC Centre of Research Excellence (MRC CoRE) funding to tackle complex and interdisciplinary health challenges.

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

Exploring the frontiers of environmental research 2026

Apply for funding to pursue truly novel curiosity-driven environmental research that is at an early stage of development and has the potential to be transformative.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for Natural Environment Research funding.

UKRI: Integration of AI/HPC with quantum computing

Apply for funding to deliver collaborative research projects to develop and test integration of quantum computing into high-performance computational workflows, enabling user access and widespread adoption.

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

EPSRC Strategic Infrastructure outlines: September 2026

Apply for funding to purchase strategic infrastructure that will improve UK scientific capability and enable cutting-edge research of high priority to EPSRC.

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

Transformative sustainable AI technologies

Apply for funding for projects focused on speculative and high-risk research with the potential to deliver a step change in the sustainability of future AI systems.

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

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