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Sources of Funding - The Sciences
 

This is a rough outline to some of the major funding available in the Sciences, check the sponsors website for closing dates and full details.

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BBSRC - Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council
   

Remit:

  • Animal Systems, health & wellbeing
  • Plants, microbes, food & sustainability
  • Technological & methodological development
  • Molecules, cells & industrial biotechnology

Funding:

Research Grants

Responsive Grants & New Investigator Grants Usually four cut off dates per year.
Strategic Longer & Larger Grants Over £2M, FEC.

Fellowships

David Phillips Fellowships Start of career, up to 5yrs

See also the International Section in funding and Working with Business.

BBSRC Electronic Application -Jes

  
EPSRC –Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council

Remit:

  • Information & Communications Technology
  • Materials, Mechanical & Medical Engineering
  • Mathematical Sciences
  • Physical Science; Chemistry, Materials & Physics
  • Process, Environment & Sustainability

Funding:

Research Grants

Research Base Funding

No limit on value or length, OPEN call

First Grant Scheme For new researchers, OPEN call

Fellowship

Postdoc Fellowships ; Early Career Fellowships; Established Fellowships.

No all three levels of Fellowship are available in all EPSRC Thematic areas, see - Areas in which Fellowships are available

Also New Ideas & Networking, Research Capacity, Public Engagement and Connecting with Business. And Highlighed Priorities - Signposted

EPSRC Electronic Application - Je-S

 
 
Leverhulme Trust

Remit: All subject areas, except social policy & Medicine

 

Funding: the main schemes are listed below

Grants - two stage application procedure

Research Project Grants Up to 3 years, £10,000 - £250,000; Up to 5 years, £250,000 - £500,000, three deadlines per year.
Programme Awards Up to 5 years, £1,750,000 max. Call date & topic set by funder.
International Networks UP to 3 years, max £125,000, three deadlines per year.
Artists in Residence UP to £15,000 for 10 months, two deadlines per year.

Fellowships

Early Career Fellowship 2-3yrs, 50% salary cost (to be matched by HEI) plus research expenses.
Study Abroad Fellowship 3-12 months, up to £22,000, replacement teaching & research expenses
Research Fellowship 3-24 months, up to £45,000, replacement teaching & research expenses
Major Research Fellowship in the Humanities & Social Science 2-3yrs, replacement teaching & research expenses
Visiting Professorship 3-10 month visit to UK, travel costs & some expenses

And the yearly Philip Leverhulme Prizes, different topics each year, deadline usually in May.

For a full list of all schemes click here: http://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/funding/funding.cfm

 

  
MRC - Medical Research Council

Remit:

Molecular & Cellular Medicine
Infections & Immunity
Population & Systems Medicine
Neuroscience & Medical Health

Funding:

Research Grants

Research Grants up to five years
New Investigator to establish an independant research career
MICA, MRC Industrial Collaboration Awards

Collaboration between industry & academia
Programme Grants up to five years
Partnership Grants up to five years

Fellowships include

Career Development Award up to 5 years support for PD Researchers
Special Training Fellowships Bioinformatics, Neuroinformatics & Computational Biology

MRC Highlight Notices
MRC Electronic Application - Je-S
 
NERC - Natural Environment Research Council

Remit:

Terrestrial, marine & freshwater biology. Earth, atmospheric, hydrological, oceanographic & polar sciences

Funding:

Research Grants

Standard Research Grants from £25,000 Directly Incurred Costs
New Investigators’ Competition up to £40,000 Directly Incurred Costs
Consortium Grants Up to 5 yrs, funding up to £3.5M @ 100% FEC
Urgent Applications Involving unexpected or short time scale natural events, OPEN call

Also Fellowships & Knowledge Transfer. Plus the various Research Programmes highlighting strategic aims.

NERC Electronic Application - JeS

 
Royal Society

Remit: The Sciences

Funding:
Grants

Research Grants £15,000, 2 closing dates per year

Fellowships

Dorothy Hodgin Fellowship max 5yrs, up to 4yrs experience. Salary + expenses. Career Flexibility. FEC
University Research Fellow 5yrs, 2-7 yrs experience. Salary + expenses. FEC
Newton Internaional Fellowship non-UK early career scientists.
Industry Fellowship 2yrs link academia/industry. Salary (exc NI) +expenses
Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow 1 term to 1year. Replacement teaching + expenses

Also Research Professorships, the Wolfson Research Merit (Salary enhancement) and the International exchange Scheme. Plus the small awards section http://royalsociety.org/awards/

Royal Society Electronic Application: e-Gap

 
Wellcome Trust

Remit:

  • Biomedical Science
  • Medical History & Humanities
  • Ethics & Society
  • Public Engagement
  • Technology Transfer
  • International Funding

Funding:
Many different schemes: See Wellcome Trust Funding Page .

Wellcome Trust Electronic Application - e-Grant

 
Other

STFC, Science & Technology Facilities Councill - Various Grants, Fellowships and Public Engagement in Astronomy, Solar & Planetary Science & Particle Physics.

British Council, SISTER lists Support for International Science,Ttechnolgy & Engineering Research.

The European 7th Framework Programme

Use the Research Funding Database to search under you subject area(s) for funding in the Charities and/or Government departments.
 
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