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UK Obesity Research Institute Full Application 2026: Up to £72 Million From MRC and the British Heart Foundation for One Seven-Year National Institute, Closing 19 November 2026
The Medical Research Council, co-funding with the British Heart Foundation, opened the full application stage for the UK Obesity Research Institute on 30 July 2026, offering a single director-led award of up to £72 million over an initial seven years for mechanistic biomedical research into obesity, with applications closing 19 November 2026 at 4:00pm UK time.
UK–Japan Civil Nuclear Research Programme 2026: Up to £475,000 for the UK Research Component of Fukushima and Sellafield Decommissioning Projects
EPSRC and Japan's MEXT are supporting collaborative UK–Japan research on safer, more sustainable decommissioning of Fukushima and Sellafield, with UK projects starting 1 January 2027 and UK applications closing 8 September 2026.
UKRI 2026 to 2027 Strategic Longer and Larger (sLoLa) Outlines
A closed UKRI and BBSRC outlines-stage grant for large, team-based bioscience discovery research in the UK. The project full economic cost had to be over £2,000,000, with BBSRC funding 80% of FEC.
UKRI Next Generation AI: Explainable AI 2026: Up to £482,000 for High-Risk AI Research Projects
The UKRI and EPSRC Next Generation AI: Explainable AI grant supports speculative, high-risk fundamental research that could produce a step change in the explainability of future artificial intelligence systems, with applications due 20 October 2026.
UKRI Translation: MRC Impact Acceleration Award 2026: £50,000 to £300,000 for One High-Risk Development Step Toward a New Medicine, Device, or Diagnostic — Applications Close 11 November 2026
The Medical Research Council funds a single, tightly scoped package of translational development work — £50,000 to £300,000 at 80% full economic cost, over six to 18 months — to generate the critical data that decides whether a medical product idea progresses or stops.
UKRI Trust and Confidence in Policing R&I Consortium: One £2 Million Award to Build Real-Time Measures of Public Trust in UK Policing, Closing 27 October 2026
UKRI's Safer Streets R&D Missions Accelerator Programme will fund a single Research and Innovation Consortium at up to £2 million full economic cost over 36 months to develop and pilot dynamic ways of measuring public trust and confidence in policing, opening 1 September 2026 and closing 27 October 2026.
UKRI Venture Doctorates 2026: A £25 Million Fund for One to Three Programmes Training at Least 50 Entrepreneurial PhD Students — Mandatory Expression of Interest Closes 21 September 2026
UKRI is investing £25 million in one to three doctoral focal awards that combine rigorous PhD research with hands-on venture creation, with a mandatory expression of interest due 21 September 2026 and outline applications closing 22 October 2026.
UKRI What Works Innovation Fellowships — Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls 2026: Three 18-Month Fellowships Worth Up to £220,000 Full Economic Cost, Embedded Inside Government-Backed What Works Centres
UKRI's R&D Missions Accelerator Programme is funding three 18-month What Works Innovation Fellowships hosted by Foundations, the College of Policing's What Works Centre for Crime Reduction, and the Youth Endowment Fund, open to UK-based researchers at any career stage who hold a PhD or equivalent research experience; applications close at 16:00 on Tuesday 8 September 2026 with a 4 January 2027 start.
University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship 2027: $69,073 Salary Plus $5,000 for Research and Professional Development
The University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program offers approximately 30 annual fellowships with a $69,073 salary, $5,000 for research and professional development, benefits, and mentored research at a UC campus.
VolkswagenStiftung Opus Magnum 2026: Up to €220,000 to Buy a German Professor Six to Eighteen Months Away From Teaching to Finish One Major Book, Closing 18 November 2026
The Volkswagen Foundation will fund a substitute professorship for 6 to 18 months, worth up to €220,000, so that an established humanities, cultural studies or social sciences professor at a German university can write a comprehensive scholarly book, with applications due 18 November 2026 at 2:00 pm.