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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:

Funder	Call	Closing Date
AHRC	Research Grants – Standard and Early Career	No fixed deadline
	Leadership Fellows Scheme – Standard and Early Career	No fixed deadline
	Research Networking Scheme	No fixed deadline
BBSRC	Responsive Mode – deadlines	2/10/19 and 15/1/20
	New Investigator Scheme	2/10/19
	Fellowships	See link for types of fell.
EPSRC	Standard Research Grants	No fixed deadline
	First Grant Scheme	No fixed deadline
	Fellowships	No fixed deadline
ESRC	Research Grants	No fixed deadline
	Research Seminars & Strategic networks	No date as yet
	ESRC Festival of Social Science – BU is a partner and so applications are through us.	2019 call now closed – contact Genna West for more details.
MRC Listed to the right are those Boards and Fellowships that are relevant to BU research. See the individual links for further opportunities.	Research Boards:
	Population & Systems Medicine	25/09/19, 15/01/20
	Neurosciences & Mental Health	02/10/19, 22/01/20
	Fellowships:
	Career Development Award	18/09/19
	Senior Non-Clinical	18/09/19
	Senior Clinical	01/04/20
	Clinical Research Training (pre-Doctoral)	02/09/19
	Clinical Research Training (post-Doctoral)	02/09/19
	Clinician Scientist	01/04/20
	Skills Development	No date as yet
NERC	Standard Research Grants	16/1/19 – NERC has capped BU and so contact RDS if you’re interested in applying
	Large Grants	Outline – 12/03/19 Full – 05/11/19 (no date for 2020 yet)
	Fellowships	See link for types of fell.
British Academy	Small Research Grants	05/06/19
	Postdoctoral Fellowships Mid-Career Fellowships Senior Research Fellowships Wolfson Research Professorships Global Professorships	Outlines – 16/10/19, Full – 02/20 2019 TBC 2019 TBC Not currently open for applications 19/02/20

Leverhulme Trust	Research Project Grants	Outlines at any time
	Early Career Fellowships	27/02/20
	Research Fellowships	07/11/19
Royal Society	Research Grants	Open call
Royal Society	Newton Fund	Various – see link
Wellcome Trust Listed to the right are their funding areas with links to different schemes and calls	Biomedical Science	See links for calls to: Investigator awards, fellowships, collaborative awards, etc.
	Humanities and Social Science
	Population Health
	All calls
	Public Engagement
NIHR	Programme Grants for Applied Research (PGfAR)	3 comps, with stage 1 apps. closing date for 2019 TBC
	Programme Development Grants	Stage 1 apps. closing dates 20/11/19
	Public Health Research (PHR)	Res-led no date; commiss. no date; Rapid funding scheme – 31/12/19
	NIHR Fellowships Programme	Post-Doc and Doc. dates to be issued for 2019
European Commission	Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Fellowships	11/9/19
	Horizon 2020	Multiple calls
	COST	05/09/19
	Future and Emerging Technologies see individual calls for more details	See link for specific calls
Innovate UK	Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) Contact Rachel Clarke in RDS Innovation grants for businesses and research organisations	02/10/19, 11/12/19, 05/02/20, 01/04/20 Various see link

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.