A collection of the latest digital funding opportunities across all disciplines. To follow the main links, please ensure you are logged into Research Professional via your institution. Alternatively, direct links to funding pages can be found under the Website heading.
UK intelligence community postdoctoral research fellowships
Primary funder name: Royal Academy of Engineering
Disciplines: Physical Sciences and Engineering; Military Sciences
Summary text: These fellowships support the promotion of unclassified basic research in areas of interest to the intelligence, security and defence community. Fellowships are worth up to £200,000 over two years.
Award amount max: £200,000
Closing date: 04 May 21
Health technology assessment programme – researcher-led workstream, including brain tumours
Primary funder name: Department of Health and Social Care including NIHR
Disciplines: Patient Care & Education; Screening for Diseases; Medical Effectiveness & Patient Outcomes; Health Economics; Medical & Diagnostic Tests; Pharmaceutical Drugs; Biomedical Engineering; Health & Medical Informatics; Brain Cancer; Preventive Medicine
Summary text: This supports research to assess the effectiveness of technologies within the NHS. There are no fixed limits on the duration of projects or funding, and proposals should be tailored to fully address the problem.
Award amount max: -
Closing date: 05 May 21
Transformations: Social and Cultural Dynamics in the Digital Age
Primary funder name: CHANSE- Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe
Summary text: CHANSE will support new and innovative research into the workings, meaning and consequences of transformations and innovations in the present digital age, viewed through the lens of the social and cultural dynamics.
Award amount max: €1,500,000
Closing date: 07 May 21
UKRI TRUSTWORTHY AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS PROGRAMME: RESPONSIBILITY
Primary funder name: UKRI
Disciplines: Artificial Intelligence; Autonomous Systems; Computer Science; Social Responsibility
Summary text: Apply for funding to support novel and creative multidisciplinary research on responsibility for autonomous systems.
Award amount max: £3,000,000
Closing date: 13 May 21
Best of the web competition
Primary funder name: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Disciplines: Journalism; Digital & Interaction Design; Communication & Media Studies; Mobile Devices, Apps & Ecosystems
Summary text: This recognises web and app design that advances education or research in journalism or mass communication. The prize amount depends on the funds available.
Award amount max: -
Closing date: 15 May 21
CreativeXR programme
Primary funder name: Digital Catapult
Summary text: This supports the development of new virtual, augmented and mixed reality experiences within the creative industries. A total of 20 successful applicants will receive up to £20,000 of early stage investment.
Award amount max: £20,000
Closing date: 17 May 21
Aerospace Technology Exploitation Programme – helping SMEs innovate in aerospace
Primary funder name: Innovate UK
Disciplines: Aerospace Engineering & Avionics
Summary text: This enables SMEs to develop innovative aerospace technologies to enhance their capabilities and increase their ability to win new business. The total budget is £2.5 million to support projects with total eligible costs worth between £100,000 and £300,000 for a duration of up to 18 months.
Award amount max: £300,000
Closing date: 18 May 21
Innovator awards
Primary funder name: Wellcome
Disciplines: Medicine & Health; Health & Medical Informatics; Biomedical Engineering
Summary text: These support researchers who are transforming ideas into healthcare innovations that could have a significant impact on human health. Grants are worth up to £750,000 for up to three years.
Award amount max: £750,000
Closing date: 24 May 21
Future leaders fellowships – business
Primary funder name: UK Research and Innovation
Disciplines: Any
Summary text: This enables businesses to develop the leadership potential of an employee through a challenging innovation or research projects. Funding is typically worth up to £1.5 million over four years to cover salaries and operational costs, but applicants may apply for more or less.
Award amount max: -
Closing date: 03 Jun 21
Niche vehicle R&D projects
Primary funder name: Innovate UK
Disciplines: Automotive Engineering; Carbon Dioxide Reduction & Mitigation; Electric & Hybrid Vehicles
Summary text: This enables SMEs activities in the low carbon vehicle technology sector to undertake collaborative R&D activities.
Award amount max: -
Closing date: 08 Jun 21
Sustained support for informatics technologies for cancer research and management
Primary funder name: NIH: National Cancer Institute
Disciplines: Cancer Studies & Oncology; Health & Medical Informatics
Summary text: This supports the continued development and sustainment of high value informatics research resources to improve the acquisition, management, analysis and dissemination of data and knowledge across the cancer research continuum. The maximum project period is five years.
Award amount max: -
Closing date: 08 Jun 21
Newton institutional links grants – UK, Indonesia, Thailand and Turkey
Primary funder name: British Council
Disciplines: Any
Summary text: These enable partners in the UK, Indonesia, Thailand and Turkey to collaborate internationally and gain access to new research environments, facilities, knowledge and expertise in order to enhance the quality of their research and enable them to translate research and innovation into economic and societal benefit. Grants from the Newton Fund range from £50,000 to £150,000 depending on the partner country.
Award amount max: £150,000
Closing date: 12 Jun 21
Better methods, better research
Primary funder name: Medical Research Council
Disciplines: Medicine & Health
Summary text: This supports research that improves research methods being applied by others anywhere within the remit of MRC or the NIHR. Grants are worth up to £500,000 and cover up to 80 per cent of full economic costs.
Award amount max: £500,000
Closing date: 17 Jun 21
Catalyst grant
Primary funder name: Digital Science
Disciplines: Software Engineering
Summary text: This supports the development of innovative research software ideas that benefit scientific research. At least three grants, worth up to £25,000 each, are available each year for projects typically lasting for six months.
Award amount max: £25,000
Closing date: 30 Jun 21
Laboratories to optimise digital health (R01 clinical trial required)
Primary funder name: NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Disciplines: Mental Illness; Mental Health; Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing; Health & Medical Informatics; Counselling & Talking Therapies; Clinical Psychology
Summary text: This supports research to test strategies to increase the reach, efficiency, effectiveness and quality of digital mental health interventions which may impact mental health outcomes, including suicide behaviours and serious mental illness. The maximum project period is four years.
Award amount max:-
Closing date: 01 Jul 21
Special Interest Group on Communications and Computer Networks rising star award
Primary funder name: Association for Computing Machinery
Disciplines: Data Communications; Computer Networks
Summary text: This recognises contributions to the field of communication networks. The award includes a travel honorarium.
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Closing date: 15 Jul 21
Investigator-initiated research in computational genomics and data science
Primary funder name: NIH: National Human Genome Research Institute
Disciplines: Computational Biology; Genomics; Bioinformatics
Summary text: This supports fundamental genomics research developing innovative analytical methodologies and approaches, early-stage development of tools and software, and refinement or hardening of software and tools of high value to the biomedical genomics community. Funding is for up to five years.
Award amount max:-
Closing date: 16 Jul 21