Top 10 Funding Opportunities:

APC 26: Industrialising Net-Zero Automotive Technology – Industrial Research

The competition aims to support collaborative, pre-production research and development projects that achieve through the associated supply chain, the design, build and manufacture of net zero carbon emission vehicles.

APC 26: Industrialising Net-Zero Automotive Technology – Experimental Development

The competition aims to support collaborative, pre-production research and development projects that achieve through the associated supply chain, the design, build and manufacture of net zero carbon emission vehicles.

Mental Health Research Groups: Round 2

This scheme aims to support up to ten NIHR Mental Health Research Groups in geographical areas with high mental health (MH) burden, limited local research capacity and low recruitment into MH research studies. These groups will be partnerships between higher education institutions (HEIs) based in England with low/no mental health research capacity and close to areas with significant mental health support needs, and HEIs based in England with more experience and expertise in mental health research, who have a shared interest and vision.

Wellcome Discovery Awards

This scheme aims to support established researchers and teams from any discipline who are seeking to pursue bold and creative research ideas to deliver significant shifts in understanding related to human life, health and wellbeing.

Climate and Mental Health Award: Uncovering Mechanisms Between Heat and Mental Health

This award seeks to support projects that will advance understanding of the biological, psychological and/or social mechanisms through which heat affects anxiety, depression and psychosis in the most impacted groups globally.

Biology of Fungal Adaptation

This Award aims to support studies that explore the mechanisms and triggers for fungal adaptation, particularly in environments that are associated with disease and/or impacted by climate change. Successful applicants will generate important breakthroughs in the field, strengthen research networks and empower future leaders in this field.

Innovation Loans Future Economy Competition – Round 19

The scheme is providing funding to support highly innovative late stage research and development projects with strong commercial potential to significantly improve the UK economy.

Climate and Health Award: Advancing Climate Mitigation Solutions with Health Co-Benefits in Low-and Middle-Income Countries

This Award will provide funding to transdisciplinary research teams, led by an applicant at an LMIC-based organisation, for research that will investigate health effects alongside the social and economic impacts of planned or implemented greenhouse gas mitigation strategies.

NIHR Work and Health Research Awards Round 2

This competition aims to foster collaboration between teams representing different disciplines, professions and sectors to submit plans for ambitious research and to catalyse future research capacity and fund large scale, ambitious and transdisciplinary projects or programmes of research addressing key priorities and substantial areas of need in work and health and occupational health.

Discovery and Impact Feature Funding – Discovery Feature Funding (May 2025)

The scheme aims to support original live action and animation feature filmmaking. The discovery feature funding strand will support debut directors with a budget of up to £3,500,000.