| Funding Opportunities | Internal Deadline | External Deadline | Relevant Faculties | |
| 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 |