The following table lists research funding opportunities relevant to the University of Reading. This list is maintained by Research and Enterprise Services (RES). The list includes schemes that form part of the Newton Fund, GCRF, and the Industrial Strategy. Please note that some schemes require that applications are business-led.
Colleagues also may also be interested by the following UUK list of international funding opportunities: https://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/International/funding-and-opportunities/Pages/gateway-to-international-opportunities.aspx
For more details, please contact res@reading.ac.uk or visit the Finding Funding pages of the RES website (requires UoR log-in). Please note that Research Services also has a dedicated page for EU funding opportunities.
Last updated on Thursday 18th July 2019.
| Lead Funder | Co-Funder(s) | Industrial Strategy/GCRF/Newton? | Scheme with Hyperlink | Deadline (Internal) | Closing Date | Notes |
| Wellcome Trust | | | Investigator Awards in Science | 2019-07-18 | 2019-07-25 | |
| Wellcome Trust | | | Senior Research Fellowships | 2019-07-18 | 2019-07-25 | |
| EPSRC | | | Hubs for Mathematical Sciences in Healthcare | 2019-07-18 | 2019-07-25 | |
| BBSRC | | | Bacterial Plant Diseases | 2019-07-18 | 2019-07-25 | |
| BBSRC | DEFRA, Scottish Government, NERC | | Bacterial Plant Diseases | 2019-07-18 | 2019-07-25 | |
| NIHR | | | The Health Technology Assessment Programme | 2019-07-24 | 2019-07-31 | |
| British Council | | Newton | Newton Fund Researcher Links Workshops | 2019-08-02 | 2019-08-09 | |
| British Council | | Newton | Newton Fund Institutional Links | 2019-08-02 | 2019-08-09 | |
| British Council | | | Newton Fund Researcher Links Workshops | 2019-08-02 | 2019-08-09 | |
| British Council | | | Newton Fund Institutional Links | 2019-08-02 | 2019-08-09 | |
| EPSRC | | | Tackling global development challenges through physical sciences research | 2019-08-03 | 2019-08-10 | |
| NERC | | | Policy internships | 2019-08-02 | 2019-08-12 | |
| MRC | UKRI, CIHR, NSERC, SSHRC (CAN) | | Canada-UK Artificial Intelligence Initiative | 2019-08-12 | 2019-08-19 | |
| NIHR | | | Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation Programme | 2019-08-21 | 2019-08-28 | |
| MRC | ESRC, CIHR (CAN) | | UK-Canada Diabetes Research Team Grants 2019 | 2019-08-21 | 2019-08-28 | |
| MRC | AMED (Japan) | | Infectious Disease Research Collaboration | 2019-08-27 | 2019-09-04 | |
| NIHR | | | Health Services and Delivery Research | 2019-08-29 | 2019-09-04 | |
| NIHR | | | Public Health Research | 2019-08-29 | 2019-09-04 | |
| AHRC | DFID | | AHRC-DFID Collaborative Humanitarian Protection Research Programme – Thematic Research Grants call | 2019-08-29 | 2019-09-05 | |
| MRC | SAMRC | Newton | South Africa-UK Antibiotic Accelerator Initiative | 2019-08-29 | 2019-09-05 | |
| DEFRA | DID | | Darwin Initiative: Project Funding | 2019-09-16 | 2019-09-09 | Deadline for Stage 2 applications (by invitation only): 5 December 2019 |
| NERC | AHRC, BBSRC, EPSRC, ESRC | SPF | Landscape Decisions mathematical and statistical challenges - Second call | 2019-09-03 | 2019-09-10 | NoI online by 26th July |
| ESRC | Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR; France), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; Germany), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC; Canada). | | Open Research Area (ORA) for the Social Sciences 2019 | 2019-09-04 | 2019-09-11 | |
| NIHR | | | Tobacco Cessation, Control and Harm Reduction Interventions | 2019-09-04 | 2019-09-11 | |
| BBSRC | NERC | GCRF | Joint BBSRC-NERC GCRF Research Translation Call Sustainable Enhancement of Agriculture and Aquaculture Production | 2019-09-11 | 2019-09-18 | |
| BBSRC | NERC | GCRF | Pre-Call Announcement: Sustainable Enhancement of Agriculture and Aquaculture Production Translation Call | 2019-09-11 | 2019-09-18 | Call opens 9th July |
| NERC | | | challenge 3 of the Role of the Southern Ocean in the Earth System (RoSES) research programme | 2019-09-12 | 2019-09-19 | |
| NERC | | | Influence of Man-made Structures In The Ecosystem | 2019-09-12 | 2019-09-19 | |
| EPSRC | | | Decarbonising Heating and Cooling | 2019-09-12 | 2019-09-19 | |
| EPSRC | | | Responsible Natural Language Processing for Intelligent Interfaces | 2019-09-17 | 2019-09-24 | |
| MRC | | | Transition support | 2019-09-19 | 2019-09-26 | |
| British Academy | | | Knowledge Frontiers – International Interdisciplinary Research | 2019-10-16 | 2019-10-23 | |
| MRC | CoEN | | Centres of Excellence in Neurodegeneration (CoEN) 2019 call: Pathfinder 4 | 2019-11-28 | 2019-11-04 | |
| DEFRA | DID | | Darwin Initiative: Partnership Projects | 2019-10-30 | 2019-11-05 | |
| MRC | | | UK Prevention Research Partnership (UKPRP) pre-announcement of second call | 2019-11-07 | 2019-11-14 | |
| British Academy | | | Global Professorships 2020 | 2020-02-12 | 2020-02-19 | |
