Read the latest updates on the UK’s research funding to support the global response to COVID-19:
For more global funding opportunities and resources specifically for COVID-19
and coronavirus-related research we recommend the following:
Funding calls
We provide an overview of the latest research for international development funding opportunities in the UK: ranging from major initiatives to small research grants, workshop and travel grants, prizes and awards, and individual fellowships and studentships.
Find more information on major UK funding sources here, or explore the wider picture of UK funding for international development research here.
To add a call for funding to this list, please send an email with the relevant details to nicole.huxley@ukcdr.org.uk.
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Latest on COVID-19
Funding call
NERC: Urgency grants related to the current Coronavirus outbreak
Ongoing
The NERC Urgency Grant scheme exists to provide funding for unexpected and transient scientific opportunities created by unpredictable natural events.
Funding call
Wellcome, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Mastercard: The COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator
Ongoing
COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator will coordinate R&D efforts and remove barriers to drug development and scale-up to address the epidemic.
Funding call
UKRI: Open call for research and innovation ideas to address COVID-19
Ongoing
Proposals are invited for short term projects addressing and mitigating the health, social, economic and environmental impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak. There is no closing...
Funding call
UKRI: Apply to switch your existing funding to Covid-19 priority areas
Ongoing
UKRI has put in place the following process to allow researchers to repurpose existing UKRI standard grant to address COVID-19 research priorities.
Funding call
NIHR: COVID-19 urgent public health research
Ongoing
COVID-19 urgent public health research is being prioritised to gather the necessary clinical and epidemiological evidence that will inform national policy and enable new...
Funding call
AHRC: Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Urgency Grants pilot
Deadline: 20 Oct 2020
Funded as a part of the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), the Urgency Grants Pilot is an open, responsive mechanism through which arts and humanities researchers can respond to unanticipated urgent research needs. The call is now open to applications addressing the Covid-19 pandemic and associated international development challenges and impacts.
Funding call
NIHR: Travel and subsistence funding to support LMIC engagement during the COVID-19 outbreak
Deadline: 31 Dec 2020
The awards will provide travel and subsistence funding to appropriately qualified public health professionals, clinicians and academics who wish to offer science and technical advice to support the immediate response to COVID-19 in low and middle-income countries.