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 Friday 3rd May 2019.
| Lead Funder | Co-Funder(s) | Industrial Strategy/GCRF/Newton? | Scheme with Hyperlink | Deadline (Internal) | Closing Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NERC | DFID | SHEAR Announcement of Opportunity: Integration and Impact proposals | 2019-05-07 | 2019-05-14 | ||
| NERC | UKRI | GCRF | GCRF Collective Programme: Multi-hazards and Systemic Risks | 2019-05-08 | 2019-05-15 | |
| British Academy | The Wolfson Foundation | The British Academy/Wolfson Fellowships | 2019-05-08 | 2019-05-15 | ||
| British Academy | Knowledge Frontiers - International Interdisciplinary Research | 2019-05-08 | 2019-05-15 | |||
| British Academy | Tackling the UK's International Challenges | 2019-05-08 | 2019-05-15 | |||
| EPSRC | Signals in the Soil | 2019-05-08 | 2019-05-15 | |||
| ESRC | GCRF | Sustainable Energy and International Development: Beyond Technology | 2019-05-08 | 2019-05-15 | EOI deadline. Full deadline 11th July | |
| AHRC | UKRI | GCRF | GCRF Cultures, Behaviours and Histories of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition | 2019-05-09 | 2019-05-16 | |
| Royal Society | Research Grants | 2019-05-09 | 2019-05-16 | |||
| Leverhulme | Phillip Leverhulme Prize | 2019-05-13 | 2019-05-20 | |||
| NIHR | Implementation and Effectiveness of Educational Interventions in improving behaviour on antimicrobial stewardship | 2019-05-14 | 2019-05-21 | |||
| NIHR | Health Inequalities Initiative Call 2 | 2019-05-14 | 2019-05-21 | |||
| NIHR | Real World Evaluation of a Scaled Deployment of HeLP Diabetes | 2019-05-14 | 2019-05-21 | |||
| British Academy | GCRF | Heritage, Dignity and Violence | 2019-05-15 | 2019-05-22 | ||
| British Academy | Royal Academy of Engineering | GCRF | Urban Infrastructures of Well-Being | 2019-05-15 | 2019-05-22 | |
| BBSRC | Follow-on Funding Pathfinder | 2019-05-15 | 2019-05-22 | |||
| NERC | EPSRC, Defra | Constructing a Digital Environment open call | 2019-05-16 | 2019-05-23 | ||
| ESRC | Mental Health Network Plus Engagement and Impact Coordinator | 2019-05-22 | 2019-05-29 | |||
| MRC | UK-Malaysia Joint Partnership on Non-Communicable Diseases | 2019-05-22 | 2019-05-29 | |||
| Royal Society | International Exchanges - Russia | 2019-05-23 | 2019-05-30 | |||
| ESRC | GCRF | Rethinking the Off-Grid City: Human infrastructure interactions in the context of urban crisis and urban change | 2019-05-23 | 2019-05-30 | EOI deadline. Full deadline 24th July | |
| Royal Society | Research Grants (Small) | 2019-05-09 | 2019-05-16 | |||
| NERC | Constructing a Digital Environment | TBC | TBC | Pre-call accouncement. Deadline expected late May | ||
| NERC | Uncertainty in Climate Sensitivity Due to Clouds | 2019-05-28 | 2019-06-04 | |||
| British Academy | BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants | 2019-05-29 | 2019-06-05 | |||
| AHRC | Newton-Bhabha Fund, Indian Council of Historic Research | Cultural heritage, migration and Indian diasporas - research networking call | 2019-05-30 | 2019-06-06 | ||
| ESRC | Alan Turing Institute | ESRC-Alan Turing Institute Joint Fellowship Scheme | 2019-05-30 | 2019-06-06 | ||
| EPSRC | Supergen | Supergen ORE HUB - Flexible Fund Programme | 2019-06-05 | 2019-06-12 | ||
| MRC (FIC) | National Science Foundation of the United States, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) of Canada, Fonds de Recherche du Quebec (FRQ) of Quebec, and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) of Germany | Next Generation Networks for Neuroscience (NeuroNex) | 2019-06-07 | 2019-06-14 | ||
| EPSRC | Healthcare Technologies Discipline Hopping Call | 2019-06-09 | 2019-06-16 | |||
| Wellcome Trust | India Alliance | Team Science Grants | 2019-06-10 | 2019-06-17 | ||
| ESRC | AHRC, What Works Centre for Wellbeing | Approaches to Understanding and Measuring Wellbeing | 2019-06-13 | 2019-06-20 | ||
| Innovate UK | Agri-Tech Catalyst funding to support agricultural and food systems innovation in Africa | 2019-06-00 | 2019-06-00 | |||
| NERC | Understanding of the Impacts of Hydrometeorological Hazards in South East Asia | 2019-06-19 | 266/19 | Restricted to the UK Principal Investigators and Co-Investigators of the current Understanding of the Impacts of Hydrometeorological Hazards in South East Asia projects | ||
| JPI Cultural Heritage and Global Change | EU, AHRC | Joint Programming Initiative Cultural Heritage and Global Change – conservation and protection call | 2019-06-23 | 2019-06-30 | ||
| Royal Academy of Engineering | GCRF | GCRF Africa Catalyst | 2019-06-26 | 2019-07-03 | ||
| EPSRC | Next Stage Digital Economy Centres | 2019-07-02 | 2019-07-09 | |||
| ESRC | NERC, Innovate UK | GCRF | GCRF Sustainable energy and international development: beyond technology | 2019-07-04 | 2019-07-11 | |
| NERC | Standard grants | 2019-07-09 | 2019-07-16 | |||
| Belmont Forum (here involving NERC, MRC, ESRC) | https://nerc.ukri.org/research/partnerships/international/belmont/ceh/news/ao/ | 2019-07-16 | 2019-07-23 | |||
| Wellcome Trust | Investigator Awards in Science | 2019-07-18 | 2019-07-25 | |||
| Wellcome Trust | Senior Research Fellowships | 2019-07-18 | 2019-07-25 |