RESEARCH AND INNOVATION DIVISION
Funding Opportunities | Internal Deadline | External Deadline | Relevant Faculties | ||||
3rd Quarter | |||||||
1. | FY25 Smith Mundt Public Diplomacy Funds | 01 August 2025 | All faculties | ||||
2. | FY25 Fulbright Hays Educational & Cultural Affairs Funds | 01 August 2025 | All faculties | ||||
3. | Takeda Innovators in Science Award Nature https://www.nature.com/immersive/innovatorsinscience/index.html | 01 September 2025 12pm | 16 September 2025 11:59pm (UTC 00:00) | -Medicine and Health Sciences -National Pathology Research and Diagnostic Centre | |||
2nd Quarter | |||||||
1. | The ISPF International Collaboration Awards provide funding to enable outstanding emerging research leaders in the UK to develop research collaborations with international partners https://royalsociety.org/grants/international-collaboration-awards-ispf/ | 03 July 2025 12pm | 08 July 2025 | All Faculties (Early Career Researchers) | |||
2. | The Africa Research Excellence Fund is pleased to launch the call for the 2025/26 AREF Research Development Fellowship Programme https://africaresearchexcellencefund.org.uk/funding-calls/research-development-fellowship-2025-26/ | 23 June 2025 12pm | 27 June 2025 13.00 hours GMT | -Medicine and Health Sciences -National Pathology (Early Career Researchers) | |||
1st Quarter | |||||||
1. | The World Medical Association invites proposals from individual researchers. https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D4E10AQHwnIPhPXSgPA/image-shrink_800/image-shrink_800/0/1735898427928?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=1h2VuzUVwJkAB6n7JubO3HMFSy2YWjc3sWSvPyP0HQI | 26 January 2025 12:00am | 31 January 2025 | -Medicine and Health Sciences -National Pathology | |||
2. | The Mastercard Foundation and University of Cambridge Climate Resilience and Sustainability Research Fund | 17 March 2025 12:00am | 21 March 2025 | -Social Sciences -Arts and Humanities – Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resource Management. | |||
3. | Research Proposals in Energy production and Delivery, and Energy Storage | 10 February 2025 12:00am | 14 February 2025 | -Science and Technology | |||
4. | Research Grant Proposals in Manufacturing and Industrialisation | 20 January 2025 12:00pm | 22 January 2025 | -Engineering and Geosciences | |||
5. | Biology of Fungal Adaptation https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/schemes/biology-fungal-adaptation | 24 January 2025 12:00pm | 28 January 2025 | -Social Sciences -Medicine and Health Sciences – Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resource Management | |||
6. | Climate and Health Award: Advancing climate mitigation solutions with health co-benefits in low- and middle-income countries https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/schemes/climate-mitigation-solutions-in-lmics | 14 February 2025 12:00pm | 18 February 2025 | -Social Sciences -Arts and Humanities – Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resource Management | |||
7. | Wellcome Early-Career Awards https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/schemes/early-career-awards | 24 February 2025 12:00pm | 28 February 2025 | -All Disciplines | |||
8. | Wellcome Career Development Awards https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/schemes/career-development-awards | 31 March 2025 12:00pm | 03 April 2025 | -All Disciplines | |||
9. | Wellcome Discovery awards | 03 April 2025 12:00pm | 08 April 2025 | -All Disciplines | |||
10. | 2025 HERITAGE-BASED CALL FOR RESEARCH PROPOSALS IN ENERGY PRODUCTION AND DELIVERY; AND ENERGY STORAGE | 10 February 2025 12:00pm | 14 February 2025 | -Science and Technology -Engineering and Geo Sciences | |||