Excitement is building ahead of the new football season, and, as ever, the wait for the real action to start is being filled with excited debate about how teams will do and what scores the opening weekend will produce. To fill the void, football economists Dr James Reade and Carl Singleton at the University of Reading have developed a computer model that is able to predict results and even scores of games before they happen. Here’s how it works.
Forecasting is a mug’s game, everyone knows this. Nonetheless, we like doing it, especially when it comes to football. How will Reading do this weekend? This season?
Given the sheer volume of information football generates in a timely fashion, it is readily collected and analysed. Statistical models are created and used to understand more about the game (e.g. when is a short corner better than a ball whipped in under the keeper’s nose?). Such models can also be used to forecast individual match results, scorelines, and even the final league table come next May.
We have created a model which estimates how many goals each team scores in a given match as a function of their own historical attacking and defending abilities, the historical abilities of their opponents, recent form, home advantage, the disruption of international breaks and European matches, and whether the match takes place on a weekend in August or a midweek evening in November.
We use this to predict what, according to the model, is the most likely score in the upcoming matches. This is an incredibly tricky task, one that usually flummoxes even the former football professionals Mark Lawrenson and Paul Merson on a weekly basis. In general, even the most likely scoreline only has a 10-15% chance of happening according to our model. So, on top of predicting the most likely scoreline, we give what the models suggests is the probability it happens.
Reading, now managed by former Derby and Swansea manager Paul Clement, kick-off the entire English football season on Friday night, welcoming rookie boss Frank Lampard’s Derby County to the Madejski. We find that the most likely final score is a narrow 1-0 win for Derby.
Does that mean we’re wrong if it finishes 2-1 to Reading instead? In a way, yes. But also no, because we can also say that there’s a 13% chance of a 1-0 win to Derby, which means there’s an 87% chance it’s not 1-0 to Derby – but that’s an imprecise forecast and not of much interest to anybody. What we are saying is that if the game on Friday night could be replayed 100 times under the exact same conditions – after each final whistle we rewound back to kick-off – then Derby would win 13 of those games 1-0.
Once we’ve predicted one set of games and the likelihood of their possible outcomes, we can carry on doing it, all the way to the end of the season. We do this using the model to simulate the entire season forward many times, updating the model estimates after each simulated game, until at the end we arrive at many iterations of the possible final league table.
The fraction of times Reading appears in the top two league positions at the end of May gives us a prediction on how likely they are to achieve automatic promotion to the Premier League. Similarly, and for all other teams in the division, we use the model and simulations to predict the likelihood of each team making the playoffs or suffering relegation.
After each week of matches over the coming season, we will update our model and our end-of-season predictions. As more information comes to light on the relative strengths of the teams both these predictions and weekly scoreline forecasts should become increasingly accurate.
See more predictions on this dedicated blog https://econscorecast.wordpress.com/
Opening Day Scoreline Predictions
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| BBSRC | Industrial Partnership Awards (IPA) | 2020-01-08 | 2020-01-15 | |||
| British Academy | Education and Learning in Crises | 2019-11-27 | 2019-12-04 | |||
| British Academy | GCRF | Youth Futures | 2019-11-27 | 2019-12-04 | ||
| NERC | Announcement of Opportunity: Networks to build interdisciplinary communities to address air quality challenges at the indoor/outdoor interface | 2019-11-28 | 2019-12-05 | Notification of intent deadline | ||
| NIHR | Global Health Policy and Systems Research Commissioned Awards 2019 | 2019-12-04 | 2019-12-11 | |||
| EPSRC | Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub | 2019-12-05 | 2019-12-12 | Outline stage | ||
| MRC | AHRC and ESRC | Adolescence, Mental Health and the Developing Mind: Engagement Awards | 2019-12-10 | 2019-12-17 | ||
| British Academy | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme for Overseas Researchers 2020 | 2019-12-11 | 2019-12-18 | |||
| Innovate UK | GCRF | GCRF AgriFood Africa Innovation Awards Competition | 2019-12-30 | 2020-01-06 | ||
| EPSRC | Digital security by design research projects | 2019-12-31 | 2020-01-07 | |||
| Wellcome | Research fellowships for health professionals | 2019-12-31 | 2020-01-07 | Preliminary applications due by 7 January 2020; full applications due by 18 March 2020. This call is repeated 2 times a year. | ||
| Wellcome | Investigator awards in humanities and social science | 2019-12-31 | 2020-01-07 | Preliminary applications due by 7 January 2020; full applications due by 24 March 2020. This call is repeated 2 times a year. | ||
| Wellcome | Collaborative awards in humanities and social science | 2019-12-31 | 2020-01-07 | Preliminary applications due by 7 January 2020; full applications due by 24 March 2020. This call is repeated 2 times a year. | ||
| Wellcome | Research fellowships in humanities and social science | 2019-12-31 | 2020-01-07 | Preliminary applications due by 7 January; full applications due by 18 March 2020. This call is repeated 2 times a year. | ||
| Wellcome | University awards in humanities and social science | 2019-12-31 | 2020-01-07 | Preliminary applications due by 7 January; full applications due by 18 March 2020. This call is repeated 2 times a year. | ||
| NIHR | 19/101 Health Technology Assessment Programme Researcher-led (evidence synthesis) | 2020-01-01 | 2020-01-08 | |||
| NIHR | 19/102 Health Technology Assessment Programme Researcher-led (primary research) | 2020-01-01 | 2020-01-08 | |||
| Innovate UK | Smart grants | 2020-01-01 | 2020-01-08 | Applications are invited between 17 October 2019 and 12 noon UK time, 8 January 2020. This call is repeated 4 times a year. | ||
| MRC | Programme grants – infections and immunity | 2020-01-01 | 2020-01-08 | Deadlines on: 18 September 2019, 8 January 2020, 13 May 2020, 16 September 2020. | ||
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| MRC | Research grants – molecular and cellular medicine | 2020-01-01 | 2020-01-08 | Applications are invited between 12 November 2019 and 8 January 2020; between 12 March and 13 May 2020; between 20 July and 16 September 2020 Deadlines on: 8 January 2020, 13 May 2020, 16 September 2020. |
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| MRC | New investigator research grant – infections and immunity | 2020-01-01 | 2020-01-08 | Applications are invited between 12 November 2019 and 8 January 2020; between 12 March and 13 May 2020; between 20 July and 16 September 2020 Deadlines on: 8 January 2020, 13 May 2020, 16 September 2020. |
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| AHRC | GCRF | GCRF Cultures, Behaviours and Histories of Agriculture, Food, and Nutrition Call 2 | 2020-01-02 | 2020-01-09 | ||
| Wellcome | Technology development grants | 2020-01-02 | 2020-01-09 | Preliminary applications due by 9 January; full applications due by 26 March 2020. | ||
| Wellcome | Biomedical resource grants | 2020-01-02 | 2020-01-09 | Preliminary applications due by 9 January; full applications due by 26 March 2020. | ||
| NERC | Standard research grants – including new investigator grants | 2020-01-07 | 2020-01-14 | This call is repeated 2 times a year. | ||
| NIHR | Research and Innovation for Global Health Transformation (RIGHT) - Call 3 | 2020-01-08 | 2020-01-15 | |||
| BBSRC | New Investigator Scheme | 2020-01-08 | 2020-01-15 | |||
| BBSRC | BBSRC-Brazil (FAPESP) joint funding of research | 2020-01-08 | 2020-01-15 | |||
| BBSRC | 'Stand-alone' LINK | 2020-01-08 | 2020-01-15 | |||
| BBSRC | Responsive mode research grants | 2020-01-08 | 2020-01-15 | |||
| Innovate UK | UK-China precision for enhancing agricultural productivity | 2020-01-08 | 2020-01-15 | Registrations due by 12 noon, 15 January 2020; applications due by 12 noon, 22 January 2020. | ||
| MRC | Population and systems medicine – research grants | 2020-01-08 | 2020-01-15 | Applications are invited between 12 November 2019 and 15 January 2020; between 12 March and 20 May 2020; and between 20 July and 23 September 2020. Deadlines on: 15 January 2020, 20 May 2020, 23 September 2020. |
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| BBSRC | 'Stand-alone' LINK | 2020-01-08 | 2020-01-15 | |||
| BBSRC | Industrial Biotechnology for Improving Production of Higher Value Chemicals | 2020-01-09 | 2020-01-16 | |||
| ESRC | Governance after Brexit programme | 2020-01-09 | 2020-01-16 | |||
| NordForsk | Joint call for research on digitalisation of the public sector | 2020-01-09 | 2020-01-16 | Proposals due by 1pm CET. | ||
| Wellcome | Research enrichment funding – diversity and inclusion | 2020-01-09 | 2020-01-16 | This call is repeated 2 times a year. | ||
| BBSRC | Industrial Biotechnology for Improving Production of Higher Value Chemicals | 2020-01-09 | 2020-01-16 | |||
| NERC | GCRF | Announcement of Opportunity: Reducing the Impacts of Plastic Waste in Developing Countries | 2020-01-13 | 2020-01-20 | Notification of intent deadline; full proposal deadline 17th March | |
| NERC | Highlight Topics Sixth Round | 2020-01-13 | 2020-01-20 | Notification of intent deadline. Full Proposal deadline 17th March | ||
| NIHR | 19/108 Public mental health interventions | 2020-01-13 | 2020-01-20 | Notification of intent deadline; full proposal deadline 17th March | ||
| NERC | GCRF | Announcement of Opportunity: Reducing the Impacts of Plastic Waste in Developing Countries | 2020-01-13 | 2020-01-20 | Notification of intent deadline; full proposal deadline 17th March | |
| NERC | Highlight Topics Sixth Round | 2020-01-13 | 2020-01-20 | Notification of intent deadline. Full Proposal deadline 17th March | ||
| NIHR | 19/108 Public mental health interventions | 2020-01-13 | 2020-01-20 | Notification of intent deadline; full proposal deadline 17th March | ||
| MRC | Health Systems Research Initiative Call 7: Providing evidence to strengthen health systems in low and middle income countries | 2020-01-14 | 2020-01-21 | Outline stage | ||
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| MRC | PHIND: Systems based approaches to Public Health intervention development | 2020-01-15 | 2020-01-22 | |||
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| MRC | PHIND: Systems based approaches to Public Health intervention development | 2020-01-15 | 2020-01-22 | |||
| NERC | Announcement of Opportunity: Constructing a Digital Environment – Demonstrators | 2020-01-23 | 2020-01-30 | |||
| Cancer Research UK | Multidisciplinary project award | 2020-01-23 | 2020-01-30 | This call is repeated 2 times a year. | ||
| Leverhulme Trust | Emeritus fellowships | 2020-01-23 | 2020-01-30 | Applications are invited between 1 September 2019 and 30 January 2020. This call is repeated once a year. | ||
| STFC | Space weather instrumentation, innovation, measurement, modelling and risk – SWIMMR call | 2020-01-23 | 2020-01-30 | Proposals are invited between 4 December 2019 and 30 January 2020. | ||
| NERC | Announcement of Opportunity: Constructing a Digital Environment – Demonstrators | 2020-01-23 | 2020-01-30 | |||
| British Nutrition Foundation | 2019-2020 BNF Drummond Pump Priming Awards | 2020-01-24 | 2020-01-31 | |||
| British Nutrition Foundation | 2019-2020 BNF Drummond Pump Priming Awards | 2020-01-24 | 2020-01-31 | |||
| UKRI | Turing Artificial Intelligence Acceleration FellowshipsT | 2020-01-28 | 2020-02-04 | Inclusivity statement deadline. Outline deadline 18/02/2020 | ||
| UKRI | Turing Artificial Intelligence Acceleration FellowshipsT | 2020-01-28 | 2020-02-04 | Inclusivity statement deadline. Outline deadline 18/02/2020 | ||
| MRC | Confidence in Concept 2019 | 2020-01-29 | 2020-02-05 | |||
| STFC | Astronomy Research Grants | 2020-01-29 | 2020-02-05 | |||
| Innovate UK | Transforming foundation industries – fast start projects | 2020-01-29 | 2020-02-05 | Applications due by 12 noon UK time. | ||
| MRC | Joint global health trials scheme – trial development grants | 2020-01-29 | 2020-02-05 | Applications are invited between 16 October 2019 and 5 February 2020. This call is repeated once a year. | ||
| MRC | Confidence in concept scheme | 2020-01-29 | 2020-02-05 | This call is repeated once a year. | ||
| MRC | Confidence in Concept 2019 | 2020-01-29 | 2020-02-05 | |||
| STFC | Astronomy Research Grants | 2020-01-29 | 2020-02-05 | |||
| AHRC | International placement scheme | 2020-01-30 | 2020-02-06 | This call is repeated once a year. | ||
| MRC | Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development | UK-Japan Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research Initiative | 2020-02-02 | 2020-02-09 | ||
| MRC | Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development | UK-Japan Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research Initiative | 2020-02-02 | 2020-02-09 | ||
| MRC | Tackling multimorbidity at scale: Understanding disease clusters, determinants & biological pathways | 2020-02-04 | 2020-02-11 | |||
| MRC | Tackling multimorbidity at scale: Understanding disease clusters, determinants & biological pathways | 2020-02-04 | 2020-02-11 | |||
| EPSRC | Turing artificial intelligence acceleration fellowships | 2020-02-11 | 2020-02-18 | Host organisation inclusivity statements due by 4 February, outline proposals due by 4pm, 18 February; full proposals due by 21 May 2020. | ||
| British Academy | Global Professorships 2020 | 2020-02-12 | 2020-02-19 | |||
| STFC | Innovations Partnership Scheme (IPS) | 2020-02-13 | 2020-02-20 | |||
| EPSRC | Advance Notice: Prosperity Partnership Fourth Round | 2020-02-13 | 2020-02-20 | |||
| STFC | Innovations Partnership Scheme Fellowships | 2020-02-13 | 2020-02-20 | |||
| MRC | Pre-call announcement: UK-Japan Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research Initiative | 2020-02-13 | 2020-02-20 | |||
| AHRC | Pre-call announcement: UK-German Call for Proposals in the Humanities, incl. Law and Linguistics | 2020-02-19 | 2020-02-26 | |||
| UKRI | Turing Artificial Intelligence World-Leading Researcher Fellowships | 2020-03-26 | 2020-04-02 | Outline stage | ||
| MRC | Board to support applied global health research | 2020-03-31 | 2020-04-07 | Outline application deadline on 7 April 2020 with Full application deadline on the 6 October 2020 | ||
| MRC | Board to support applied global health research | 2020-09-29 | 2020-10-06 | Outline application deadline on 6 October 2020 with Full application deadline in April 2021 | ||
| British Council | Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan | Innovative and Collaborative Research Grant | 2019-11-25 | 2019-12-02 | Outline application deadline on 2 December 2019 with Full application deadline on the 31 January 2020 |
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| MRC | AHRC and ESRC | Adolescence, Mental Health and the Developing Mind: Engagement Awards | 2019-12-10 | 2019-12-17 | ||
| British Academy | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme for Overseas Researchers 2020 | 2019-12-11 | 2019-12-18 | |||
| Innovate UK | GCRF | GCRF AgriFood Africa Innovation Awards Competition | 2019-12-30 | 2020-01-06 | ||
| EPSRC | Digital security by design research projects | 2019-12-31 | 2020-01-07 | |||
| Wellcome | Research fellowships for health professionals | 2019-12-31 | 2020-01-07 | Preliminary applications due by 7 January 2020; full applications due by 18 March 2020. This call is repeated 2 times a year. | ||
| Wellcome | Investigator awards in humanities and social science | 2019-12-31 | 2020-01-07 | Preliminary applications due by 7 January 2020; full applications due by 24 March 2020. This call is repeated 2 times a year. | ||
| Wellcome | Collaborative awards in humanities and social science | 2019-12-31 | 2020-01-07 | Preliminary applications due by 7 January 2020; full applications due by 24 March 2020. This call is repeated 2 times a year. | ||
| Wellcome | Research fellowships in humanities and social science | 2019-12-31 | 2020-01-07 | Preliminary applications due by 7 January; full applications due by 18 March 2020. This call is repeated 2 times a year. | ||
| Wellcome | University awards in humanities and social science | 2019-12-31 | 2020-01-07 | Preliminary applications due by 7 January; full applications due by 18 March 2020. This call is repeated 2 times a year. | ||
| NIHR | 19/101 Health Technology Assessment Programme Researcher-led (evidence synthesis) | 2020-01-01 | 2020-01-08 | |||
| NIHR | 19/102 Health Technology Assessment Programme Researcher-led (primary research) | 2020-01-01 | 2020-01-08 | |||
| Innovate UK | Smart grants | 2020-01-01 | 2020-01-08 | Applications are invited between 17 October 2019 and 12 noon UK time, 8 January 2020. This call is repeated 4 times a year. | ||
| MRC | Programme grants – infections and immunity | 2020-01-01 | 2020-01-08 | Deadlines on: 18 September 2019, 8 January 2020, 13 May 2020, 16 September 2020. | ||
| MRC | Partnership grant – infections and immunity | 2020-01-01 | 2020-01-08 | Applications are invited between 12 November 2019 and 8 January 2020; between 12 March and 13 May 2020; between 20 July and 16 September 2020 Deadlines on: 8 January 2020, 13 May 2020, 16 September 2020. |
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| MRC | Research grants – infections and immunity | 2020-01-01 | 2020-01-08 | Applications are invited between 12 November 2019 and 8 January 2020; between 12 March and 13 May 2020; between 20 July and 16 September 2020 Deadlines on: 8 January 2020, 13 May 2020, 16 September 2020. |
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| MRC | New investigator research grant – molecular and cellular medicine | 2020-01-01 | 2020-01-08 | Applications are invited between 12 November 2019 and 8 January 2020; between 12 March and 13 May 2020; between 20 July and 16 September 2020 Deadlines on: 8 January 2020, 13 May 2020, 16 September 2020. |
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| MRC | Research grants – molecular and cellular medicine | 2020-01-01 | 2020-01-08 | Applications are invited between 12 November 2019 and 8 January 2020; between 12 March and 13 May 2020; between 20 July and 16 September 2020 Deadlines on: 8 January 2020, 13 May 2020, 16 September 2020. |
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| MRC | New investigator research grant – infections and immunity | 2020-01-01 | 2020-01-08 | Applications are invited between 12 November 2019 and 8 January 2020; between 12 March and 13 May 2020; between 20 July and 16 September 2020 Deadlines on: 8 January 2020, 13 May 2020, 16 September 2020. |
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| AHRC | GCRF | GCRF Cultures, Behaviours and Histories of Agriculture, Food, and Nutrition Call 2 | 2020-01-02 | 2020-01-09 | ||
| Wellcome | Technology development grants | 2020-01-02 | 2020-01-09 | Preliminary applications due by 9 January; full applications due by 26 March 2020. | ||
| Wellcome | Biomedical resource grants | 2020-01-02 | 2020-01-09 | Preliminary applications due by 9 January; full applications due by 26 March 2020. | ||
| NERC | Standard research grants – including new investigator grants | 2020-01-07 | 2020-01-14 | This call is repeated 2 times a year. | ||
| BBSRC | Industrial Partnership Awards (IPA) | 2020-01-08 | 2020-01-15 | |||
| NIHR | Research and Innovation for Global Health Transformation (RIGHT) - Call 3 | 2020-01-08 | 2020-01-15 | |||
| BBSRC | New Investigator Scheme | 2020-01-08 | 2020-01-15 | |||
| BBSRC | BBSRC-Brazil (FAPESP) joint funding of research | 2020-01-08 | 2020-01-15 | |||
| BBSRC | 'Stand-alone' LINK | 2020-01-08 | 2020-01-15 | |||
| BBSRC | Responsive mode research grants | 2020-01-08 | 2020-01-15 | |||
| Innovate UK | UK-China precision for enhancing agricultural productivity | 2020-01-08 | 2020-01-15 | Registrations due by 12 noon, 15 January 2020; applications due by 12 noon, 22 January 2020. | ||
| MRC | Population and systems medicine – research grants | 2020-01-08 | 2020-01-15 | Applications are invited between 12 November 2019 and 15 January 2020; between 12 March and 20 May 2020; and between 20 July and 23 September 2020. Deadlines on: 15 January 2020, 20 May 2020, 23 September 2020. |
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| BBSRC | 'Stand-alone' LINK | 2020-01-08 | 2020-01-15 | |||
| BBSRC | Industrial Biotechnology for Improving Production of Higher Value Chemicals | 2020-01-09 | 2020-01-16 | |||
| ESRC | Governance after Brexit programme | 2020-01-09 | 2020-01-16 | |||
| NordForsk | Joint call for research on digitalisation of the public sector | 2020-01-09 | 2020-01-16 | Proposals due by 1pm CET. | ||
| Wellcome | Research enrichment funding – diversity and inclusion | 2020-01-09 | 2020-01-16 | This call is repeated 2 times a year. | ||
| BBSRC | Industrial Biotechnology for Improving Production of Higher Value Chemicals | 2020-01-09 | 2020-01-16 | |||
| NERC | GCRF | Announcement of Opportunity: Reducing the Impacts of Plastic Waste in Developing Countries | 2020-01-13 | 2020-01-20 | Notification of intent deadline; full proposal deadline 17th March | |
| NERC | Highlight Topics Sixth Round | 2020-01-13 | 2020-01-20 | Notification of intent deadline. Full Proposal deadline 17th March | ||
| NIHR | 19/108 Public mental health interventions | 2020-01-13 | 2020-01-20 | Notification of intent deadline; full proposal deadline 17th March | ||
| NERC | GCRF | Announcement of Opportunity: Reducing the Impacts of Plastic Waste in Developing Countries | 2020-01-13 | 2020-01-20 | Notification of intent deadline; full proposal deadline 17th March | |
| NERC | Highlight Topics Sixth Round | 2020-01-13 | 2020-01-20 | Notification of intent deadline. Full Proposal deadline 17th March | ||
| NIHR | 19/108 Public mental health interventions | 2020-01-13 | 2020-01-20 | Notification of intent deadline; full proposal deadline 17th March | ||
| EPSRC | Connected Evrything Network - Feasibility Study Call | 2020-01-13 | 2020-01-20 | |||
| MRC | Health Systems Research Initiative Call 7: Providing evidence to strengthen health systems in low and middle income countries | 2020-01-14 | 2020-01-21 | Outline stage | ||
| MRC | Health Systems Research Initiative Call 7: Providing evidence to strengthen health systems in low and middle income countries | 2020-01-14 | 2020-01-21 | Outline stage | ||
| MRC | PHIND: Systems based approaches to Public Health intervention development | 2020-01-15 | 2020-01-22 | |||
| Innovate UK | Application of whole genome sequencing approaches to cancer | 2020-01-15 | 2020-01-22 | Applications are invited between 7 October 2019 and 12 noon UK time, 22 January 2020. | ||
| MRC | Public health intervention development scheme | 2020-01-15 | 2020-01-22 | Applications are invited between 11 November 2019 and 4pm GMT, 22 January 2020. This call is repeated every 2 years. | ||
| MRC | New investigator research grant – neurosciences and mental health | 2020-01-15 | 2020-01-22 | Applications are invited between 2 November 2019 and 22 January 2020; between 12 March and 27 May 2020; and between 20 July and 30 September 2020. | ||
| MRC | Research grants – neurosciences and mental health | 2020-01-15 | 2020-01-22 | Applications are invited between 12 November 2019 and 22 January 2020; between 12 March and 27 May 2020; and between 20 July and 30 September 2020. Deadlines on: 22 January 2020, 27 May 2020, 30 September 2020. |
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| MRC | Programme grants – neurosciences and mental health | 2020-01-15 | 2020-01-22 | Deadlines on: 22 January 2020, 27 May 2020, 30 September 2020. | ||
| MRC | Partnership grant – neurosciences and mental health | 2020-01-15 | 2020-01-22 | Applications are invited between 12 November 2019 and 22 January 2020; between 12 March and 27 May 2020; and between 20 July and 30 September 2020. Deadlines on: 22 January 2020, 27 May 2020, 30 September 2020. |
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| MRC | PHIND: Systems based approaches to Public Health intervention development | 2020-01-15 | 2020-01-22 | |||
| EPSRC | ExCALIBUR High Priority Use Cases: Phase 1 | 2020-01-15 | 2020-01-22 | |||
| NERC | Announcement of Opportunity: Constructing a Digital Environment – Demonstrators | 2020-01-23 | 2020-01-30 | |||
| Cancer Research UK | Multidisciplinary project award | 2020-01-23 | 2020-01-30 | This call is repeated 2 times a year. | ||
| Leverhulme Trust | Emeritus fellowships | 2020-01-23 | 2020-01-30 | Applications are invited between 1 September 2019 and 30 January 2020. This call is repeated once a year. | ||
| STFC | Space weather instrumentation, innovation, measurement, modelling and risk – SWIMMR call | 2020-01-23 | 2020-01-30 | Proposals are invited between 4 December 2019 and 30 January 2020. | ||
| NERC | Announcement of Opportunity: Constructing a Digital Environment – Demonstrators | 2020-01-23 | 2020-01-30 | |||
| British Nutrition Foundation | 2019-2020 BNF Drummond Pump Priming Awards | 2020-01-24 | 2020-01-31 | |||
| British Nutrition Foundation | 2019-2020 BNF Drummond Pump Priming Awards | 2020-01-24 | 2020-01-31 | |||
| UK Space Agency | GCRF | International Partnership Programme Call 3 | 2020-01-26 | 2020-02-02 | ||
| UKRI | Turing Artificial Intelligence Acceleration FellowshipsT | 2020-01-28 | 2020-02-04 | Inclusivity statement deadline. Outline deadline 18/02/2020 | ||
| UKRI | Turing Artificial Intelligence Acceleration FellowshipsT | 2020-01-28 | 2020-02-04 | Inclusivity statement deadline. Outline deadline 18/02/2020 | ||
| MRC | Confidence in Concept 2019 | 2020-01-29 | 2020-02-05 | |||
| STFC | Astronomy Research Grants | 2020-01-29 | 2020-02-05 | |||
| Innovate UK | Transforming foundation industries – fast start projects | 2020-01-29 | 2020-02-05 | Applications due by 12 noon UK time. | ||
| MRC | Joint global health trials scheme – trial development grants | 2020-01-29 | 2020-02-05 | Applications are invited between 16 October 2019 and 5 February 2020. This call is repeated once a year. | ||
| MRC | Confidence in concept scheme | 2020-01-29 | 2020-02-05 | This call is repeated once a year. | ||
| MRC | Confidence in Concept 2019 | 2020-01-29 | 2020-02-05 | |||
| STFC | Astronomy Research Grants | 2020-01-29 | 2020-02-05 | |||
| Leverhulme Trust | Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship | 2020-01-29 | 2020-02-05 | |||
| AHRC | International placement scheme | 2020-01-30 | 2020-02-06 | This call is repeated once a year. | ||
| MRC | Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development | UK-Japan Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research Initiative | 2020-02-02 | 2020-02-09 | ||
| MRC | Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development | UK-Japan Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research Initiative | 2020-02-02 | 2020-02-09 | ||
| MRC | Tackling multimorbidity at scale: Understanding disease clusters, determinants & biological pathways | 2020-02-04 | 2020-02-11 | |||
| MRC | Tackling multimorbidity at scale: Understanding disease clusters, determinants & biological pathways | 2020-02-04 | 2020-02-11 | |||
| EPSRC | Turing artificial intelligence acceleration fellowships | 2020-02-11 | 2020-02-18 | Host organisation inclusivity statements due by 4 February, outline proposals due by 4pm, 18 February; full proposals due by 21 May 2020. | ||
| British Academy | Global Professorships 2020 | 2020-02-12 | 2020-02-19 | |||
| STFC | Innovations Partnership Scheme (IPS) | 2020-02-13 | 2020-02-20 | |||
| EPSRC | Advance Notice: Prosperity Partnership Fourth Round | 2020-02-13 | 2020-02-20 | |||
| STFC | Innovations Partnership Scheme Fellowships | 2020-02-13 | 2020-02-20 | |||
| MRC | Pre-call announcement: UK-Japan Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research Initiative | 2020-02-13 | 2020-02-20 | |||
| AHRC | Pre-call announcement: UK-German Call for Proposals in the Humanities, incl. Law and Linguistics | 2020-02-19 | 2020-02-26 | |||
| Wellcome | Collaborative Awards in Science | 2020-02-20 | 2020-02-27 | Recurring, this is the November 2019 round. April round opens 21 April 2020 and closes 16 July 2020 | ||
| Gen Foundation | Gen Foundation Grant | 2020-02-21 | 2020-02-28 | |||
| NIHR | Research for Patient Benefit Programme - Competition 41 | 2020-03-11 | 2020-03-18 | |||
| NERC | AHRC, BBSRC, EPSRC, ESRC | Landscape Decisions Fellowships/a> | 2020-03-19 | 2020-03-26 | ||
| UKRI | Turing Artificial Intelligence World-Leading Researcher Fellowships | 2020-03-26 | 2020-04-02 | Outline stage | ||
| MRC | Board to support applied global health research | 2020-03-31 | 2020-04-07 | Outline application deadline on 7 April 2020 with Full application deadline on the 6 October 2020 | ||
| MRC | Board to support applied global health research | 2020-09-29 | 2020-10-06 | Outline application deadline on 6 October 2020 with Full application deadline in April 2021 | ||
| NSF | NERC, ESRC, EPSRC, MRC | Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID) | 2020-11-11 | 2020-11-18 | Full proposal deadline the third Wednesday in November, annually thereafter | |
| British Council | Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan | Innovative and Collaborative Research Grant | 2020-11-25 | 2020-12-02 | Outline application deadline on 2 December 2019 with Full application deadline on the 31 January 2020 |
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