Health Foundation Funding Opportunities

Our new research programme provides funding of up to £200k for projects seeking to understand the impact of COVID-19 in the UK. THIS Institute is also inviting applications for a new COVID-19 fellowship opportunity on maternity care. And finally don’t miss our long read on how the NHS can use anchor strategies to build a sustainable recovery from the pandemic  Read more

NIHR Opportunities

The following new funding opportunities are available:

Cross-programme
20/45 COVID-19: Recovery and Learning

Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation Programme
An NIHR and MRC partnership
20/57 Novel strategies and interventions to reduce overtreatment
20/58 Interventions in Paediatric Care

NIHR launches new UK wide funding call for longer-term COVID-19 research
The NIHR has launched a new research call to better understand and manage the health and social care consequences of the global COVID-19 pandemic beyond the acute phase, to help mitigate the impact of subsequent phases of the pandemic and its aftermath. Read more
For more information and a list of all current funding opportunities, please visit the NIHR website.

The Royal Society

Summer Science Online – This year, our Summer Science Exhibition goes online, celebrating advances in science and scientific research. From 13 – 17 July we would like to invite you to join us for a week of interactive quizzes, creative challenges and talks on topics including the science of pets, doping in sports and Antarctica exploration.

Leverhulme Trust Update

Annual Review 2019 – The Trust’s 2019 Annual Review is now available to download: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/annual-review

In addition to a financial overview and full list of grants awarded, the Annual Review highlights the breadth and significance of the research supported, with brief accounts of over twenty projects funded during the year.

Interviews with past winners of the Research Leadership Awards give an insight into the investment made in teams tackling distinctive research problems.

Coronavirus: Information for applicants and grant holders – The Trust will continue to review our policies and will update our website when we have new information: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/covid

Upcoming closing dates –

Leverhulme International Professorships – 3 July 2020

Research Project Grants – detailed applications – 1 September 2020

 

 

 

NIHR funding Opportunities

The following new funding opportunities are available:

Cross-programme
20/45 COVID-19: Recovery and Learning

Policy Research Programme
PRP Recovery, Renewal, Reset: Research to inform policy responses to COVID-19 in the health and social care systems
For more information and a list of all current funding opportunities, please visit the NIHR website.

British Academy

Funding Call: The Humanities and Social Sciences Tackling Global Challenges Programme 2020 – The British Academy is inviting proposals from researchers in the humanities and social sciences, in collaboration with those in other disciplines where appropriate, wishing to undertake problem-focused, interdisciplinary research projects aiming to enhance our understanding and response to global challenges.

The British Academy

Funding Call: Knowledge Frontiers: International Interdisciplinary Research 2021 –  The British Academy is inviting proposals from UK-based researchers in the humanities and social sciences wishing to develop international interdisciplinary projects in collaboration with colleagues from the natural, engineering and / or medical sciences, with a focus on technology, nature and humanity.

UKRI Funding Opportunity

Joint Global Health Trials (JGHT) Call 11 – outline stage – This scheme seeks to support research that addresses the health problems affecting low and middle income countries (LMICs) by funding definitive trials that are likely to produce implementable and generalisable results to change policy and practice.  Read more

Research News Update

COVID-19 Latest News: Universities Explore Partial Lab Re-openings – As more countries are starting to slowly bring the current waves of the COVID-19 pandemic under control, some are starting to ease lockdown restrictions.  Academic leaders, as well as their governments, are now facing tough decisions – including when and how to reopen higher education institutions and research facilities.

How schemes from the Europe’s major funders are affected by the coronavirus outbreak – Research Professional News has collected information from major European funders on how the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting their scheduled grant schemes. All information should be treated as being subject to change but was correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of going to press.