Funding

Royal Academy Engineering. Our Research Fellowships offer exceptional early-career engineering researchers the time, resources and support to pursue an ambitious programme of independent research and establish themselves as future engineering research leaders.At a glanceWho: Open to early-career (maximum four years and six months post PhD award dat…

APEX AwardsA partnership between the British Academy, Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering, the APEX Awards offer established independent researchers the opportunity to pursue interdisciplinary and curiosity-driven research with partners from different disciplines across the sciences, engineering, social sciences and humanities. Fundi…

Green Future Fellowship Accelerated International Route (GFF AIR)An accelerated application route for exceptional non-UK-based applicants to the Green Future Fellowship programme, providing funding and support to academics, entrepreneurs and innovators to develop and scale up their breakthrough climate solutions.This route is open to applicants bas…

The Public Engagement Starter Fund is an exciting opportunity for University of Cambridge researchers to apply for grants of up to £4000 to undertake innovative public engagement with research activities. The fund supports novel projects based on contemporary research at the University of Cambridge. Further guidance is available online. A completed…

Apply for funding to support excellent new investigator-led research across the breadth of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) scientific remit. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for BBSRC funding. This scheme is designed to assist newly employed university lecturers, researchers (at a level equ…

Apply for funding to deliver a doctoral focal award in environmental evidence synthesis. Applications should be led by organisations eligible for UKRI funding. A notification of intent must be completed by 27 May 2026 4:00pm UK time.More here

Apply for funding to pursue an adventurous, ambitious, curiosity-driven project in environmental research. We welcome:multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary researchprojects delivered in partnership with other research funders and usersThe full economic cost (FEC) of your project can be up to £950,000. We will fund 80% of the FEC.There is no defin…

Apply for funding to support research within the remit of the Medical Research Council (MRC). You must be employed by an eligible research organisation. You can involve more than one research group or organisation in the project. There is no limit to the funding you can apply for, but it should be appropriate to the project. We will usually fund up…

Apply for funding to support partnerships to carry out novel collaborative activities between a team of researchers, with interdisciplinarity encouraged where appropriate. You must be employed by an eligible research organisation. The grant will allow you to:establish novel high-value collaborative activities or capabilitiesadd value to high-quali…

These fellowships are for those looking to return to a research career after a break of two or more years for family, health or caring reasons. The aim is to give participants the confidence and skills they need to make a successful return to research. Daphne Jackson fellowships are retraining fellowships open to all researchers across science, tec…

AZ funded non-clinical PhD studentship - Experimental and computational framework for optimising dosing strategies to mitigate T-cell exhaustion in T-cell engager therapies.  T-cell engager (TCE) therapies are increasingly prevalent in the clinical pipeline of pharmaceutical companies. While TCEs are promising therapeutic agents due to their high p…

Project title - Matchmaker: Prioritising the best cell line for expressing target proteins using CRISPR and machine learning. Applications are invited for a fully funded 4-year PhD studentship based in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, and the new AstraZeneca Discovery Centre in Cambridge. The project will be jointly supervis…

CRASSH offers support to postdocs and academic staff employed by the University of Cambridge or one of its Colleges to run a wide range of events and creative initiatives. We invite you to apply for funding and logistical support for any activity that will foster the exchange of ideas across disciplines and cultures, forge new collaborations betwee…

Cambridge NeuroWorks is proud to introduce the Cambridge NeuroWorks Fellowship Programme, and we are inviting you to apply for one of two transformative fellowship streams in this pioneering initiative. This Fellowship programme, powered through our partnership with theAdvanced Research + Invention Agency  (ARIA), is one part of a much wider collab…

2048 Ventures is looking to bring on a Network Partner focused on sourcing biotech deals: graduate students seeing biotech pre-seed and seed deal flow in Boston in the US, and Cambridge, Oxford, and London in the UK. Our Network Partners get training in VC, compensation for each startup we finally invest in, a formal affiliation with 2048 Ventures,…