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Fellowship - Career returner

Daphne Jackson Fellowship

UK Research and Innovation (AHRC, BBSRC, ESRC, EPSRC, MRC, NERC, STFC), The Daphne Jackson Trust

N/A – N/A

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Fellowships for those looking to return to a research career after a break of 2+ years for family, health or caring reasons. Combines personalised retraining programme with challenging research project.

Programme Grant

EPSRC Programme grant full proposal

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

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Programme grants provide flexible funding to world-leading research groups addressing significant major research challenges. Funding should bring together a team of internationally recognised scientists or engineers to focus on one strategic research theme. This funding opportunity is only for invited applicants. EPSRC sees programme grants as critical mass investments, which cover a diverse engineering and physical sciences portfolio and benefit UK research through the concentration of high-performing talent.

Programme Grant

EPSRC programme grant outline stage

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

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Programme grants provide flexible funding to world-leading UK research groups addressing significant research challenges. Funding should bring together the expertise of a team of internationally recognised scientists or engineers to focus on one strategic research theme. Funding can be awarded for up to six years. You must contact the relevant theme contact before applying. Applications are paused from 1 December 2025 for energy and decarbonisation, manufacturing and circular economy, and quantum technologies themes.

£400,000 – N/Anon-repayable

Infrastructure

Strategic infrastructure outlines

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

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Apply for funding to purchase strategic infrastructure including equipment, resources or both. The funding seeks to improve UK scientific capability and enable cutting-edge research of high priority to EPSRC. This funding is for either purchase and set-up of infrastructure or resources to support existing infrastructure. The full economic cost (FEC) of your infrastructure must be at least £400,000. EPSRC expects no more than six applications from each institution per year.

Network Grant

EPSRC network grant: Nov 2023: responsive mode

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

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Network grants are for researchers at eligible research organisations. EPSRC will support costs of building interdisciplinary research communities. You can apply for a network grant in any area within the remit of EPSRC. Network grants aim to develop new interdisciplinary research communities and topics by supporting interaction between researchers and relevant science, technology and industrial groups. We expect networks to lead to new collaborative multidisciplinary research applications. Some may develop into virtual centres of excellence.

Research Grant

EPSRC working with overseas scientists: Nov 2023: responsive mode

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

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This is an opportunity for you to work with researchers in Ireland, Luxembourg, Brazil, Germany and the US through EPSRC's lead agency agreements. The majority of the UK research must fall within EPSRC remit. We will award 80% of the full economic cost (FEC) of the UK costs of the project. Your overseas partners are funded by the relevant overseas agency. The aim is to reduce current barriers to working internationally by allowing researchers to submit a single collaborative application with a joint funding decision, informed by a single lead agency review.