Training

Potential funding sources

NERC

Responsive Research Grants

• New Investigator research grants
  
• Standard Research Grants
  
• Consortium Grants
  
• Partnership Research Grants
  
• Small Research Grants
  
• Urgency Applications
  
• Research Councils and MOD Joint Grants Scheme
  

EPSRC

• A-Z of opportunities
• Future calls for proposals
  Provisional plan of activities organised by approximately when calls may be issued
• Apply any time for responsive mode funding
  Flexible funding for whatever you want to do, EPSRC remit and panels, signposting, equipment, defence research
• New academics
  First grant scheme, help and advice
• Fellowships
  Career acceleration fellowships, postdoctoral fellowships, leadership fellowships, other fellowships
• New ideas, networking and travel
  Overseas travel grants, visiting researchers, IDEAS factory, workshops and schools, networks, postdoctoral mobility
• Knowledge transfer
  Follow-on fund, integrated knowledge centres, knowledge transfer challenge
• Sustaining research capacity
  Platform grants, programme grants, science and innovation awards, interdisciplinary research centres

Royal Society

• Research Grants
  Research grants offer up to £15,000 for equipment to support promising research in any discipline within the Society's remit.
• Networking Scheme
  The networking scheme is aimed specifically at developing new and enduring partnerships between the UK and China, India and South Africa.  Grants are available for any field of science and technology and cover one to one meetings or small seminars/workshops.
• International Travel Grants
  The Royal Society's objectives include strengthening of UK science by providing support to excellent individuals to engage with the best science around the world as well as supporting science communication.  The International Travel Grant scheme aims to contribute to fulfilling this objective by supporting international collaborations and the participation of UK scientists in overseas conferences.

Royal Society of Edinburgh

• Research Liaison within Scotland
• International Programme / Bilateral and Open Exchange Programmes

Leverhulme

• International Networks
• Research Grants
• Leverhulme Prize

Student funding

Outreach grants

RCUK Grants for NSEW (up to £2k for activities held during National Science and Engineering Week, 2010 scheme yet to be announced, likely closing date mid-October)

EPSRC Partnerships for Public Engagement (up to £20k on fast response, up to several hundred k on normal deadline)

STFC Public Engagement Small Awards (up to £15k, non-FEC costed, deadline tba)

STFC Public Engagement Large Awards (up to £100k, FEC costed proposals, deadline tba)

STFC Science Centre Scheme (up to £20k)

STFC Schools Grants Scheme (up to £500, no closing deadlines)

Wellcome Trust Public Engagement Grants (5 schemes: People awards (up to £30k, deadlines: 17 July 2009, 16 October 2009, 29 January 2010), Society awards (amounts over £30k for up to 3 years, deadline: 9th October 2009 with Theme of 'Eating'), Arts awards (pilot up to £30k, deadlines: 17 July 2009, 16 October 2009, 29 January 2010, large scale projects £30k+, next deadline: Jan 2010), Broadcast (up to £10k, deadlines: 17 July 2009, 16 October 2009, 29 January 2010) and International (up to £30k, deadline: 30 October 2009) Science Media Studentships (closed for 2009).

Scottish Government Science and Society Engagement Grants (from the Office of the Chief Scientific Adviser, up to £35k. 2009/10 Scheme closed, but here are copies of the Announcement Letter, Guidelines document, Evaluation document and Application form for info.

Institute of Physics (up to £1k for activities to promote physics based activities, next deadline to be posted)

Royal Society of Chemistry (up to £250 small awards, between £250 and £5k larger grants up to 3 per year awarded, responsive mode application procedure)