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Metascience research grants round 2

Apply for funding to undertake cutting-edge Metascience research into more effective ways of conducting and supporting research and development (R&D), including the impact of AI and the challenges of measuring research excellence.

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

AIRR compute opportunity: AI for Science

Apply for between 200,000 and 1,000,000 graphics processing unit hours on the Isambard-AI and Dawn supercomputers for artificial intelligence (AI) related research and development projects.

You must be a UK researcher from academia, industry or other organisations.


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Polaris House,
North Star Avenue,
Swindon,
SN2 1FL

Events

MRC ES: putting sustainable science into practice

19 January 2026

Online and at Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BA (Library room)

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