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Highlighted funding opportunities

Highlights of funding opportunities will be listed below under ‘Funding opportunities highlights’.

A more comprehensive list is available by clicking on 'Database: all funding opportunities'. The Excel document contains a list of current, open, pre-announced and expected calls and other research proposal-related information, which will be updated regularly.

Faculty and University funding highlights will be updated when funds are available.

UKRI's new Funding Service and submission tool

UKRI is changing the way they support researchers and all those involved in research funding. 2023/2024 is the transition to the new Funding Service which will impact in the way that open call responsive mode schemes are processed. Further information from ‘Council transition to the new Funding Service’, UKRI website.

External funding opportunities highlights

Below are some highlighted funding opportunities.

  • For a more comprehensive list (containing current, open, pre-announced and expected calls and other research proposal-related information) please visit the following 'Database: all funding opportunities' section.

(Note: deadline dates included after the call). 

Database: all funding opportunities

View relevant/collected funding information, calls, and other opportunities.

Fellowships - Fellowship investment framework UKRI

"Fellowships are prestigious funding awards for individuals to enable challenging transitions or targeted capability development. They provide the fellow freedom to undertake activities, over at least 12 months, that require significant focused time (between 0.5 and 1 full time equivalent) to achieve the proposed outcome"

UKRI has launched a new framework aiming at "simplify and align fellowship schemes, improving efficiency for applicants, research organisations and UKRI". This could translate into new simplification of schemes close to HSS even including schemes from the British Academy besides the Research Councils, the Future Leaders scheme. Still work in progress, it will be applied later in 2025.

Further information from: Fellowship investment framework – UKRI.

Diagram showing six career stages from Training to Leadership, with aligned fellowships Professional Doctorate, Early Independence, Future Leaders, Capacity Building, and Sector Transition.

The framework will align characteristics across all UKRI fellowships under these types:

  • Career transition
  • Capacity building and discipline transition
  • Sector transition

"Fellowships are prestigious funding awards that provide a significant boost to an individual’s career trajectory and represent a key stepping-stone in the career development of many leading researchers and innovators".

Collaborative research bilateral/trilateral agreements - past and present

Note: for multi-country consortium large grants check the Key calls page and highlights section below. The UKRI International Partnerships pages provide information about developments.

Bilateral collaborative opportunities are being supported a different levels (academic, university, and UKRI for example) and should increase with time. These current available and relevant to SSH are expected to be reiterative calls: 

  • AHRC/DFG (UK-Germany). Link: AHRC
  • British Academy / MOST (UK-Taiwan). Link: BA Special funds
  • British Academy ODA International Interdisciplinary research projects (specific countries): BA
  • UKRI / FAPESP (UK-Brazil). Links: AHRC/ESRC/NERC
  • UKRI / NSF (UK-USA). Links: AHRC/ESRC/NERC
  • UKRI / FNR (UK-Luxembourg). Links: AHRC/ESRC/NERC
  • IZA/UKAid (UK-Germany). Link: GLM|LIC
  • Canada-UK Foundation. Link: Grants
  • British Council / France: Link: Entente Cordiale Scholarship
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science / UK. Link: JSPS London
  • University of Manchester/University of Heiderberg: UoM
  • University of Manchester/University of Melbourne (UK-Australia). Link: UoM
  • University of Manchester/FAPESP (UK-Brazil). Link: UoM
  • University of Manchester/Heidelberg University. Link: UoM
  • University of Manchester/Indian Institute of Science. Link: UoM
  • University of Manchester/University of Toronto (UK-Canada). Link: UoM
  • University of Manchester/University of Melbourne/University of Toronto. Link: UoM
  • University of Manchester/Chinese University of Hong Kong (UK-China PRC). Link: UoM
  • University of Manchester/Tel Aviv University (UK-Egypt). Link: UoM
  • University of Manchester/ KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University (UK-Sweden). Link: UoM
  • University of Manchester/Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) UKRI / SNSF joint applications. Link: UoM
  • University of Manchester/Manipal Academy of Higher Education. UoM
  • University of Manchester /Washington. UoM

The above highlights database provides with more possibilities: collaborations from stablished centres or organisations aiming at this type of projects like the Canada–UK Foundation, Great Britain China Centre (GBCC), Humanitarian Grand Challenge, from the British Council, etc.

There are other possibilities of collaborative research and innovation with ODA countries from the UK Newton Fund and hopefully the GCRF, and even other ODA opportunties from other agencies like the British Council and British Academy all included in the funding opportunities database.

The University of Manchester mantains a webpage on Major Strategic Partnerships.

Faculty and University funding highlights

for real-time and also pre-announcements and expected opportunities please go to the funding opportunities database and query the "University of Manchester" from column "funding body"

Current open opportunities:

University of Manchester UKRI IAA Social Venture Fund

This fund supports essential early-stage activities for emerging social ventures. Information available on the university news pages.

PhD studentships opportunities

Available on the humanities website.

Faculty Simon Industrial and Professional Fellowship

Regulations and guidance available online.  

JRRL funding opportunities

New opportunities will be announced on the JRRL website.

North-West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership (NWCDTP)

Funding for DTP’s postgraduate researchers. Discovery and Collaboration Funding.  Open for submissions any time.

Manchester joint collaborations with other Universities

All the information can be found online on the International Partnerships website. 

University Research Development Funds

  • Research Staff Dissemination Fund
  • Research Staff Collaboration Fund.

Various deadlines yearly. Further information on the website.

University of Manchester - UKRI Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) UKRI Harmonised IAA call.

IAA funding supports the research and innovation ecosystem to develop wider impacts from research through fast and flexible funding for early-stage knowledge exchange activities. IAA grants are available to all the University of Manchester academics within the remit of AHRC, BBSRC, EPSRC, MRC and STFC.  Mechanisms: 

  • Relationship Development Scheme (up to £10k, open call).
  • Proof of Concept Scheme (up to £30k).
  • Secondment Scheme (up to £60k).

Deadlines will be announced on the IAA website.

Faculty Research Investment Funds

Previous calls 2019 to 2023, schemes:

Team Awards Individual Awards
  • Large Collaborative Awards
  • New Investigator Fellowships
  • Preparing for Large Grants
  • Post-grant Completion fellowship
  • Research Fellowship

Currently paused.

Faculty and University funding opportunities page

For brief summaries on past and current opportunities you can check the faculty page, but note that the database highlights should include the most up-to-date opportunities.