ERC: Starting Grants

DEADLINE: 25 OCT 2022

Are you a talented early-career scientist who has already produced excellent supervised work, is ready to work independently and shows potential to be a research...

ESRC: Embedding methodological development in social science research

DEADLINE: 25 OCT 2022

Apply for funding to refine recently developed methodological approaches to enable them to be fully embedded in social science research practice.

Elrha: Innovation Challenge: Data-driven Inclusion

This innovation challenge is looking for innovative data collection approaches that will generate action-oriented recommendations on how to make humanitarian programmes more inclusive of older people and people with disabilities.

MRC & FCDO: African Research Leaders 2023

DEADLINE: 1 DEC 2022

Apply for funding to support excellent global health research and strengthen research leadership across sub-Saharan Africa.

NERC: Independent research fellowships 2022

DEADLINE: 11 OCT 2022

Apply for funding to further your career through an independent research fellowship.

NIHR: Global Health Research Funding Committee Membership

DEADLINE: 16 SEP 2022

Welcoming and encouraging applications from individuals based in LMICs, these programmes provide funding to support not only delivery of research but also strengthen crucial research capability and capacity in resource-poor settings, including training and capacity-strengthening in both academic research and programme support functions.

Understanding the impact of development research through REF 2021

Analysing the connections between how development research is conducted and what development impact is achieved.

Equitable partnerships: Lessons from practitioners

This blog series, ‘Equitable Partnerships: Lessons from Practitioners’, explores the importance of equity, as well as its barriers and enablers.  Each blog provides best practices and learning examples informed by their experience in the field.

The role of funders in enabling equitable research partnerships for development

We are pleased to announce this upcoming virtual event hosted by the UK Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR) and ESSENCE on Health, ‘The role of funders in enabling equitable research collaboration for development’, at the Science Summit at United National General Assembly 77 (UNGA77) on the 26th September.  

Charting the path to quality, sustainable and impactful research capacity strengthening

UKCDR's report, ‘Research Capacity Strengthening: lessons from UK-funded initiatives in low- and middle-income countries’, collates learnings from across initiatives and disciplines and builds upon learning from UKCDR’s 2021 briefing paper mapping UK funders’ RCS investments in LMICs (2016-2021).