Funding Opportunities

The Public Health Research (PHR) Programme is accepting stage one applications to this funding opportunity. Dementia is a growing challenge that has become one of the most important health and social care issues facing the world. We need to continue building the evidence base, to improve the lives of people affected by dementia.

The Public Health Research (PHR) Programme are accepting Expressions of Interest (EoI) from Local Authorities that have initiatives in need of research and evaluation.

As the UK population gets older and with more people surviving into adulthood with long-term disability or illness, requests for support to meet a person’s social care needs are increasing.

The Health and Social Care Delivery Research (HSDR) Programme is accepting stage one applications to this funding opportunity.

This HSDR Programme call is for high-quality research on how the Mental Capacity Act (2005) has been implemented in practice across health and social care organisations.

The Public Health Research (PHR) Programme wishes to commission research on the health impact of interventions which affects adult unpaid carers.

Funding for methodological development to increase capacity for generating robust evidence of effectiveness and efficacy of actions within complex systems including impact on inequalities.

The HTA Programme invites proposals for work which will accelerate the development of applications to the programme in the area of digital interventions and technology-enabled care.

The NIHR Public Health Research Programme is accepting stage 1 applications to their researcher-led workstream – deadline 16th August

The NIHR Public Health Research Programme is accepting stage 1 applications to their Commissioned workstream – deadline 16th August

Funding to support independent, rapid evaluations of technology-enabled innovations in health and care services that support remote monitoring at home

The Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) Programme invites applications for research into the mechanisms of action of health interventions in studies recruiting patients with multiple long-term conditions (MLTC). The NIHR has published a strategic framework for research into multiple long-term conditions (MLTC), which sets out what we mean when we talk about MLTC research.

The Health and Social Care Delivery Research HSDR Programme is accepting stage one applications to this funding opportunity.

The Health Technology Assessment Programme HTA is accepting stage 1 applications to their commissioned workstream for this primary research topic.

The Health and Social Care Delivery Research (HSDR) Programme are accepting stage 1 applications to this NIHR Themed Call for research into the evaluation of interventions or services to support the delivery of a more sustainable UK health and care system, including mitigating the effects of climate change on health and care delivery.

The Health and Social Care Delivery Research (HSDR) Programme are accepting stage 1 applications to this NIHR Themed Call for research into the evaluation of interventions or services to support the delivery of a more sustainable UK health and care system, including mitigating the effects of climate change on health and care delivery.

Advanced Clinical and Practitioner Academic Fellowship enables post-doctoral researchers to develop their academic career whilst remaining in clinical work

New British Neuroscience Association (BNA) scheme to support the sharing, collaboration, acquisition of skills and building of friendships between neuroscience groups in the UK and other countries.

BNA is awarding Carer Grants of up to £300 to help cover expenses associated with caring responsibilities and thereby enable participation in either BNA-hosted or external neuroscience events.

BRACE is committed to funding high quality research projects that ultimately contribute to the knowledge of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.

Apply for funding from UK Research and Innovation to build community research consortia to address health disparities – deadline 20th June

The ABN and ARUK Clinical Research Training Fellowship scheme provides 3-year clinical research training fellowships in neurological disciplines resulting in a PhD.

As a sign of solidarity, DZNE has established its own special fellowship program for scientists from Ukraine, the “DZNE Fellowship for Ukrainian Scientists”.

Call status: Open Application deadline: apply at any time* *at least 12 weeks before the proposed start of the project Funded through responsive mode This award is run jointly with Brazil’s São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). See the guidance notes for more details. Aim To pump-prime collaborations between scientists in the UK and the São…

Funding for research in noncoding RNAs to investigate the causality, directionality, mechanisms, and therapeutic potential of ncRNAs implicated dementias

Funding for esearch into the most effective forms of health communication & public health messaging during a period of infectious disease/pandemic.

To help scientists add an international dimension to their BBSRC-funded research by making and establishing new contacts with international counterparts.

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) accelerate business innovation by supporting knowledge exchange with academic institutions. KTP operates through an open call which includes the entirety of BBSRC’s remit.

Grants of up to $20,000 to improve the quality of one or more existing napari plugins to support reproducible quantitative image analysis.

Neurosciences and mental health partnership. Apply for a grant to support new partnerships between diverse groups of researchers in neurosciences and mental health.

The NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship (ACF) is a clinical specialty training post in medicine that incorporates academic training. The NIHR has allocated funding for 250 ACFs for recruitment in 2022/23.

Flexible opportunity to start either a pre-doctoral or post-doctoral fellowship on a full-time or part-time basis in public health research funded by the NIHR

Placements in BBSRC Swindon Office. Call status: Open Application deadline: apply at any time A key component of our Doctoral Training Partnership programme (DTP) is the Professional Internship for PhD Students (PIPS) – a 3-month integrated placement to provide BBSRC-funded DTP PhD students the opportunity to carry out a work placement unrelated to their doctoral research during…

Race Against Dementia Fellowship designed to power outstanding early career scientists and innovative solutions to the big questions in dementia research.

Offering Salary + up to £20,000 a year are designed for promising PhD qualified non-clinical researchers who have delivered previous research projects with evidence of impactful outputs.

The NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) programme is inviting stage 1 applications for research proposals that are concerned with the day-to-day practice of health service staff, and that have the potential to have an impact on the health or wellbeing of patients and users of the NHS.

Nuffield Foundation Research, Development and Analysis Fund

The Tau Pipeline Enabling Program (T-PEP) seeks to accelerate the discovery of potential new therapies for tauopathies. The intent of this program is to enrich the pipeline for therapy development by facilitating the translation of academia derived ideas into practical application. In short, it bridges the gap between innovative but resource-constrained researchers and the larger pharmaceutical companies that are looking for drug candidates to be taken into human trials.

This Wellcome Early-Career Awards scheme provides funding for early-career researchers from any discipline who are ready to develop their research identity.

$450,000 total funding (direct and indirect costs) over a period of up to three years to support you and your research.