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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
	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 – deadlines	23/6/20 and 30/9/20
	New Investigator Scheme	23/6/20
	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
	ESRC Festival of Social Science – BU is a partner and so applications are through us.	2020 call closes 19th June – 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	23/09/20, 20/01/21
	Neurosciences & Mental Health	30/9/20, 27/01/21
	Fellowships:
	Career Development Award	16/09/20, 21/4/21, 15/9/21
	Senior Non-Clinical	16/09/20, 21/4/21, 15/9/21
	Senior Clinical	21/04/21
	Clinical Research Training (pre-Doctoral)	02/09/20, 7/1/21, 7/4/21, 1/9/21
	Clinical Research Training (post-Doctoral)	02/09/20, 7/1/21, 7/4/21, 1/9/21
	Clinician Scientist	02/09/20, 7/1/21, 7/4/21, 1/9/21

NERC	Standard Research Grants	28/7/20 – NERC has capped BU and so contact RDS if you’re interested in applying
	Large Grants	Outline – 10/03/20 Full – 03/11/20 (no date for 2021 yet)
	Fellowships	See link for types of fell.
British Academy	Small Research Grants	03/06/20 – next date to be confirmed
	Postdoctoral Fellowships Mid-Career Fellowships Senior Research Fellowships Wolfson Research Professorships Global Professorships	Outlines – TBC, Full – TBC 2020 TBC 2020 TBC Not currently open for applications 2021 TBC

Leverhulme Trust	Research Project Grants	Outlines at any time
	Early Career Fellowships	2021 TBC
	Research Fellowships	2020 TBC
Royal Society	Research Grants	12/11/20
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: 29/7/20
	Programme Development Grants	Stage 1 apps. closing dates 13/01/21
	Public Health Research (PHR)	See link for calls under this strand
	NIHR Fellowships Programme	See fellowship calls for dates
European Commission	Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Fellowships	9/09/20
	Horizon 2020	Multiple calls
	COST	29/10/20
	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	15/07/20, 7/10/20, 02/12/20, 03/02/21 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.