Research funding
Grants, loans and tax incentives available to research businesses across the UK.
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Available funding
EPSRC Standard Research Grants
EPSRC Standard Research Grants. Open to UK research organisations eligible for UKRI funding. Principal investigator must hold an academic post at an eligible institution. No fixed deadline.
EPSRC New Investigator Award
EPSRC New Investigator Award. Early-career researchers who have not previously led a research project. Must hold a permanent or open-ended academic post at an eligible UK institution.
EPSRC Prosperity Partnerships
EPSRC Prosperity Partnerships. Co-created business-led research partnerships between UK universities and established companies. Industry must commit significant cash and in-kind support.
EPSRC Programme Grants
EPSRC Programme Grants. For large, ambitious research programmes addressing significant challenges. Open to UKRI-eligible research organisations led by world-leading PIs.
NERC Pushing the Frontiers (Discovery Science)
NERC Pushing the Frontiers (Discovery Science). Investigator-led discovery science across NERC remit. Twice yearly. Eligible UK research organisations.
ESRC Impact Acceleration Accounts
ESRC Impact Acceleration Accounts. Institutional block awards enabling social-science researchers to pursue impact, secondments, and knowledge exchange.
STFC Innovations & Knowledge Exchange
STFC Innovations & Knowledge Exchange. Supports translation of STFC-funded research and industrial partnerships in physics, space, and computing.
ARIA Mathematics for Safe AI
ARIA Mathematics for Safe AI. Mathematicians and AI researchers building verifiable guarantees for AI systems.
ARIA Forecasting Tipping Points
ARIA Forecasting Tipping Points. Researchers developing tools to anticipate climate tipping-point risks.
Research England Development Fund (RED)
Research England Development Fund (RED). English higher education providers piloting transformational research, knowledge exchange and innovation.
Connecting Capability Fund
Connecting Capability Fund. English universities collaborating on shared commercialisation and knowledge-exchange infrastructure.
Innovate UK ICURe Programme
Innovate UK ICURe Programme. UK university researchers exploring commercial potential of research via market discovery.
British Academy Small Research Grants
British Academy Small Research Grants. Humanities and social science researchers based at UK institutions undertaking new research.
Royal Society Industry Fellowships
A Royal Society scheme funding academic–industry secondments to build research collaborations.
National Quantum Computing Centre Programmes
National Quantum Computing Centre Programmes. UK quantum-computing researchers, hardware developers and end-users accessing NQCC programmes and testbeds.