Research Funding Opportunities
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 Wednesday 21st July 2021.
| Lead Funder | Co-Funder(s) | Industrial Strategy/GCRF/Newton? | Call | Internal deadline | External deadline | Notes |
| Royal Society | | | Research Grants | 2021-06-29 | 2021-07-06 | |
| MRC | ESRC | | Using data to improve public health: COVID-19 secondment | 2021-06-29 | 2021-07-06 | |
| UKRI | ESRC, AHRC, EPSRC | | Protecting citizens online complementary projects: outline stage | 2021-06-29 | 2021-07-06 | |
| MRC | BBSRC, ESRC | | Mapping complexity of pain with the Advanced Pain Discovery Platform | 2021-07-08 | 2021-07-15 | Mandatory Intention to Submit deadline is 15th July. Full application deadline will be 15th September |
| EPSRC | | | Digital technologies for health and care | 2021-07-14 | 2021-07-21 | |
| British Academy | | | UK-Poland knowledge frontiers symposium – just transitions | 2021-07-14 | 2021-07-21 | |
| Natural Environment Research Council | | | Embedded researcher scheme on UK climate resilience | 2021-07-15 | 2021-07-22 | |
| CRUK | | | Prevention and Population Research Project Awards | 2021-07-15 | 2021-07-22 | |
| Department of Health and Social Care including NIHR | | | Health technology assessment programme – commissioned calls | 2021-07-21 | 2021-07-28 | |
| Department of Health and Social Care including NIHR | | | Health technology assessment programme – commissioned call: 21/24 | 2021-07-21 | 2021-07-28 | |
| NERC | AHRC, ESRC, EPSRC | | Understanding environmental change in Inuit Nunangat | 2021-07-28 | 2021-08-04 | |
| Department of Health and Social Care including NIHR | | | Health services and delivery research – commissioned call: 21/16 | 2021-07-29 | 2021-08-05 | |
| Department of Health and Social Care including NIHR | | | Efficacy and mechanism evaluation programme – dementia research call | 2021-08-03 | 2021-08-10 | |
| Department of Health and Social Care including NIHR | | | Public health research programme – commissioned calls: 21/38, 21/39, 21/40 | 2021-08-05 | 2021-08-12 | |
| Department of Health and Social Care including NIHR | | | Public health research programme – application development awards: 21/36, 21/37 | 2021-08-05 | 2021-08-12 | |
| Department of Health and Social Care including NIHR | | | Public health research programme – dementia research call: 21/48 | 2021-08-05 | 2021-08-12 | |
| Wellcome | | | CRISPR and beyond – perturbations at scale to understand genomes course bursaries | 2021-08-09 | 2021-08-16 | |
| Wellcome | | | Organoids – advances and applications conference bursaries | 2021-08-10 | 2021-08-17 | |
| Wellcome | | | Virus genomics and evolution conference bursaries | 2021-08-23 | 2021-08-30 | |
| Department of Health and Social Care including NIHR | | | Health technology assessment programme – commissioned calls: 21/501, 21/502 | 2021-08-25 | 2021-09-01 | |
| MRC | | | molecular and cellular medicine partnership grant: Sep 2021 | 2021-08-25 | 2021-09-01 | |
| Department of Health and Social Care including NIHR | | | Health technology assessment programme – commissioned calls: 21/503, 21/504 | 2021-09-08 | 2021-09-15 | |
| CRUK | | | Prevention and Population Research Programme Awards | 2021-09-16 | 2021-09-23 | |
| EPSRC | | | Investigate high-priority use cases for exascale software | 2021-09-21 | 2021-09-28 | |
| AHRC | BBSRC, EPSRC, MRC, STFC | | Pre-announcement: improve and accelerate the impact of your organisation’s research | 2021-09-29 | 2021-10-06 | |
| Diabetes UK | | | Project Grants | 2021-11-24 | 2021-12-01 | |
| Diabetes UK | | | Early-career small grants | 2021-11-24 | 2021-12-01 | |
| EPSRC | | | Mathematical Sciences Small Grant Scheme | 2021-12-25 | 2022-01-01 | |
| British Academy | | | Funding Call – Postdoctoral Fellowships: Outline Stage 2021-22 | 2021-10-07 | 2021-10-14 | |
| NERC | BBSRC, EPSRC, MRC, | | Developing engineering biology breakthrough ideas | 2021-02-02 | 2021-02-09 | |
| NERC | AHRC, MRC | | Scale up health inequality prevention and intervention strategies | 2021-09-16 | 2021-09-23 | |
| NERC | EPSRC | | Enabling an equitable digital society | 2021-09-07 | 2021-09-14 | |
| NERC | AHRC, MRC, BBSRC, STFC , EPSRC | | Improve and accelerate the impact of your organisation’s research | 2021-09-29 | 2021-10-06 | |
