Funding Opportunities

Funding to support answering the following question – Can a prediction tool be developed to identify frail older inpatients at high risk of discharge to residential or nursing care, or with a need for intensive support at home?

Applications are sought for research into interventions that are based or used by the NHS and its partners.

Applications are sought for studies of functional imaging techniques used in the diagnosis, management, monitoring or treatment of disease.

Inviting proposals for hypothesis driven research into the underlying mechanisms of action of clinical and public health interventions.

A call for applied health research studies to increase the evidence base to support health and care services to help people at the end of their lives to live as well as possible and to die with dignity, compassion and comfort.

A call for applied health research studies to increase the evidence base to support health and care services to help people at the end of their lives to live as well as possible and to die with dignity, compassion and comfort.

A call for applied health research studies to increase the evidence base to support health and care services to help people at the end of their lives to live as well as possible and to die with dignity, compassion and comfort.

A call for applied health research studies to increase the evidence base to support health and care services to help people at the end of their lives to live as well as possible and to die with dignity, compassion and comfort.

A call for empirical research studies to evaluate the use of digital technologies to improve health outcomes, self-management of health or delivery of health and social care.

Funding further the understanding of the mechanisms of ageing, help to treat disease, disability and frailty relating to ageing and to develop and innovate in the care and support of older people.

Advancing Applied Analytics programme aimed at improving analytical capability in support of health and care services With £750,000 of funding to support up to 12 project teams across the UK over 15 months.

Seeking to develop meaningful, sustainable and mutually enriching scientific collaboration between researchers, labs and institutions.

Pursuing high risk studies that illuminate areas for which there currently is little understanding, helping to bring to light crucial knowledge about Alzheimer’s disease.

Provides funds to increase understanding of pathogenesis across neurodegenerative diseases.

This scheme aims to work in partnership with institutions that wish to increase the numbers of clinicians and healthcare professionals working in the field of dementia. Essentially, we wish to work with institutions that have high quality research ideas, to attract outstanding clinicians or practitioners to undertake dementia research.

Clinician and Healthcare Professional Training Fellowships provide an opportunity for individuals to study for a higher degree with a view to developing a career that combines research and practice.

Funding to support the sharing of research knowledge and material beyond researcher’s own peer groups – this includes NHS Staff, Carers, People with dementia and the public.

DPUK supports the professional development of Early Career Researchers (ECRs) through targeted funding.

Provides up to £100,000 for scientific equipment.

Designed to encourage researchers into dementia research who have expertise which could benefit the field.

Junior Fellowships are for post-doctoral researchers who have shown exceptional promise at the start of their research career. Applicants should demonstrate potential to be an independent researcher.

Welcoming proposals for standard research projects, large-scale surveys, infrastructure projects, and for methodological developments in any area of the social sciences.

Provides funds for high quality basic and clinical research projects.

The PhD Scholarship scheme providing a stipend, PhD tuition fees and research / travel costs.

The objective of Alzheimer’s Society PhD Studentship grants is to provide funding for new PhD studentships in the areas of cause, cure, care or prevention of all types of dementia.

Funding research of PhD studentships, equipment and projects looking at how the brain works, diagnosis, treatments, DNA and more.

Funding research of equipment and projects looking at how the brain works, diagnosis, treatments, DNA and more.

The Pilot project scheme provides funds for small innovative research projects and pilot studies.

Postdoctoral fellowship awards are intended for young researchers in their final stages of mentored training.

Designed to help clinicians gain the experience required for a full fellowship.

Project grants are for researcher led applications to enable world-class research in to the cause, cure, care or prevention of any form of dementia.

Funds to conduct rapid baseline data collection, as well as other feasibility work, prior to intervention implementation.

Scheme to promote networking, collaborations, communication and dissemination of research results through scientific conferences.

A Senior Fellowship is for post-doctoral or other successful researchers who wish to build on a number of successful years of dementia research, and who demonstrate the ambition and potential to be an independent investigator at the end of the award.