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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	27/04/17
	New Investigator Scheme	27/04/17
	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.	05/17 – 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	27/09/17, 17/01/18
	Neurosciences & Mental Health	03/10/17, 31/01/18
	Fellowships:
	Career Development Award	20/09/17
	Senior Non-Clinical	20/09/17
	Senior Clinical	No date as yet
	Clinical Research Training (pre-Doctoral)	10/01/18
	Clinical Research Training (post-Doctoral)	10/01/18
	Clinician Scientist	No date as yet
	Skills Development	No date as yet
NERC	Standard Research Grants	16/1/18 – NERC has capped BU and so contact RKEO if you’re interested in applying
	Large Grants	Outline – 14/03/17 Full – 07/11/17 (no date for 2018 yet)
	Fellowships	See link for types of fell.
British Academy	Small Research Grants	1/11/17
	Postdoctoral Fellowships Mid-Career Fellowships Senior Research Fellowships Wolfson Research Professorships	Outlines – 18/10/17, Full – 03/18 20/09/17 2017 TBC 2017 TBC

Leverhulme Trust	Research Project Grants	Outlines at any time
	Early Career Fellowships	01/03/18 (round opens 1/1/18)
	Research Fellowships	09/11/17
Royal Society	Research Grants	(2017 TBC)
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 29/11/17
	Programme Development Grants	Stage 1 apps. closing dates 22/11/17, 28/03/18
	Public Health Research (PHR)	Res-led 21/11/17; commiss. no date
	NIHR Fellowships Programme	Post-Doc and Doc. dates to be issued Oct.17
European Commission	Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Fellowships	12/9/18
	Research and Innovation Staff Exchange	TBC
	COST	TBC
	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 RKEOInnovation grants for businesses and research organisations	Health & life sciences – call opens autumn 17; Emerging and enabling technologies – 08/11/17; Infrastructure systems – 13/09/17; Materials and Manufacturing – call opens winter 17. Various see link

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

Do have a look at the Research Lifecycle on the blog to see how RKEO 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.