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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.
VolkswagenStiftung Pioneering Research — Exploring the Unknown Unknown 2026: Up to €1.3 Million Over Three to Five Years for Deliberately Risky Basic Research, Ranked First by Fellow Applicants Through Distributed Peer Review
The Volkswagen Foundation is funding radically exploratory basic research in any discipline with up to €1.3 million over three to five years, with anonymous short proposals due 27 August 2026 and a first review round in which applicants score each other's submissions.
Women Divers Hall of Fame Scholarships and Training Grants 2027: A Share of More Than $90,000 in Awards Across About 20 Categories for Divers Pursuing Marine Research, Conservation, and Professional Dive Careers
The Women Divers Hall of Fame offers about 20 categories of scholarships and training grants each year for people advancing in diving, marine science, and ocean conservation, with the 2027 cycle open from September 1 to October 31, 2026.