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Nuffield Foundation

"We tackle the UK’s biggest social challenges by funding research, generating evidence, and guiding decision-makers to implement solutions that improve people’s lives."

Aiming to improve the social economic well-being of individuals, families, and communities in the UK.

With independency, rigour, inclusivity, collaboration, curiosity and embedding EDI in funded work.

Research

Research | Nuffield Foundation

  • A prosperous and fair society
  • An inclusive society
  • Science, technology and society
  • Climate change
  • Trustworthy and effective institutions

Our programmes - Nuffield Foundation

  • Public right to justice
  • Grown up? Journeys to adulthood
  • The changing face of early childhood in Britain
  • Changing lives for the better: priorities for the next 20 years

Schemes

Funding

Each scheme includes all the support for applicants: a guide for applicants, submission form, strategy, faqs, terms and conditions, etc. Online application access form from each scheme/call.

  • Strategic Fund
    • New, transformative ideas that are capable of anticipating and addressing the most significant themes and developments shaping the UK public policy agenda.
    • £1 million to £3 million
    • Outline application deadline: 16 March 2026
    • 2 to 5 years
    • Research grants for original and ambitious projects that confront the scale and urgency of the UK’s biggest social and economic challenges
  • Main Grants (Research, Development and Analysis Fund)
    • Up to £500,000
    • Outline application deadline: 6 October 2025
    • Usually six months to three years
    • Funding for research projects that address one or more of our five interconnected priorities and aim to improve lives in the UK
  • Racial Diversity UK Fund
    • Up to £500,000
    • Outline application deadline: 6 October 2025
    • Usually six months to three years
    • Research funding to understand the barriers and pathways to a racially just and inclusive society
  • Oliver Bird Fund
    • Research funding to improve the social and economic well-being of people living with musculoskeletal conditions
    • Up to £750,000
    • Up to 4 years
  • POST Fellowship
    • Successful applicants will be based in UK Parliament during 13 weeks, supporting its use of research evidence. Most fellows assist POST in providing briefing material for parliamentarians on emerging science topics.
    • £8k grant in instalments.

Funding V no Funding

Funding no Funding
  • Relevance: Is the proposal relevant to at least one of the priority questions?
  • Impact: Is there a clear path to how the research and related activities might make a difference to people’s lives?
  • Conceptual framework: Is there a clear conceptual framework?
  • Rigour: Is the research methodology appropriate and rigorous?
  • Experience: Does the team have the appropriate experience, expertise and potential?
  • Value for money: Is the budget requested appropriate, and does it offer good value for money?
  • Individuals without formal employment or other relationship with the institution hosting the grant
  • Projects led by individuals unaffiliated to any particular organisation
  • Projects led by undergraduates or master’s students
  • PhD fees or projects where the main purpose is to support a PhD
  • The establishment of academic posts
  • Ongoing costs or the costs of ‘rolling out’ existing work or services

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