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Given below is a snapshot of the most common rolling calls for major funder’s and where known, deadlines for closing dates (note that if a date is in the past, this is shown as an indication of when a future call may occur): Page updated – 25/5/22

Funder	Call	Closing Date
AHRC	Research Grants – Standard and Early Career	No fixed deadline
	Research, Development and Engagement Fellowships – The scheme has two routes: a standard route to support mid-career and established researchers a dedicated route to support early career researchers	No fixed deadline
	Research Networking Scheme	No fixed deadline
BBSRC	Responsive Mode	No fixed deadline
	Discovery Fellowships	5/5/22 – next date TBC
	Fellowships	See link for types of fell.
EPSRC	Standard Research Grants	No fixed deadline
	New Investigator Award	No fixed deadline
	Fellowships	No fixed deadline
ESRC	Research Grants	No fixed deadline
	New Investigator Grants	No fixed deadline
	ESRC Festival of Social Science – BU is a partner and so applications are through us.	2022 call closed 25th April – contact publicengagement@bournemouth.ac.uk for more details and future dates.
MRC – Fund through Boards	Research Grant	Application deadlines
	New Investigator Research Grant	Application deadlines
	Programme Grant	Application deadlines
	Partnership Grant	Application deadlines
	Fellowships	Various






NERC	Standard Research Grants	23/5/22 (next call expected Oct.22) – NERC has capped BU and so contact RDS if you’re interested in applying
	Large Grants	Outline – 9/03/21 Full – 16/11/21 – no new date for 2022 yet
	Fellowships	See link for types of fell. and deadlines
British Academy	Small Research Grants	01/06/22 – next date to be confirmed
	Postdoctoral Fellowships Mid-Career Fellowships Senior Research Fellowships Wolfson Research Professorships Global Professorships	Outlines – TBC, Full – 9/2/22 then TBC 7/9/22 16/11/22 8/12/21 – 2022 TBC 2022 TBC

Leverhulme Trust	Research Project Grants	Outlines at any time
	Early Career Fellowships	2022 TBC
	Research Fellowships	2022 TBC
Royal Society	Research Grants	19/5/22 – next date TBC
Royal Society	Newton Fund	Various – see link
Wellcome Trust	Discovery awards	See links for calls for deadlines Discovery, Early career, and Career Development awards have quarterly rounds. Springboard awards are annual. Public engagement deadline 31/5/22.
	Early career awards
	Springboard awards
	Public Engagement
	Career Development Awards
NIHR	Programme Grants for Applied Research (PGfAR)	3 comps, with stage 1 apps. closing date: 27/7/22
	Programme Development Grants	Next round opens in July 2022
	Public Health Research (PHR)	16/8/22
	NIHR Fellowships Programme	See fellowship calls for dates
European Commission	Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Fellowships	Expected Sep.22
	Horizon Europe	Multiple calls
	COST	20/10/22

Innovate UK	Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) Innovate UK Smart grants	15/06/22 27/7/22

If you intend to apply to any of the above calls then please contact the RDS Funding Development Team in the first instance.

Do have a look at the Research Lifecycle on the blog to see how RDS can support you with your research plans. You can also see what training and development opportunities are available to support you when applying for funding – visit the RKE Development Framework to find out more.