Funding & fellowships

Funding opportunities

The UCL Life and Medical Sciences Research Coordination Office (LMS RCO) provide comprehensive information about the various options for finding funding on their website. Some of the options for funding are listed below:

UCL Internal Funding Opportunities

UCL offers a number of internal research funding opportunities for UCL researchers.

• UCL LMS funding opportunities
• Social Science Plus
• UCL Grand Challenges
• UCL Public Engagement
• UCL 2034

UCL Internally Managed Calls

As some funders only accept a specific number of applications from each institution, UCL has an internal selection process for such calls.

• UCL internally managed calls

UCL Global Research Funding

The UCL Global Research Funding website provides information on how to identify and develop strong research proposals for global research funding in Low and Middle income countries, including support and advice for Official Development Assistance (ODA) funded research.

• Global research funding

Charities, Charitable Trusts & Learned Societies

Research funding opportunities offered by charities, charitable trusts and learned societies.

• Academy of Medical Sciences
• Action Medical Research for Children
• Bloodwise
• Cancer Research UK (CRUK)
• Health Foundation
• Kidney Research UK
• Leverhulme Trust
• Macmillan
• National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
• Nuffield Foundation
• Rosetrees Trust
• Royal Society
• Wellcome Trust
• Worldwide Cancer Research

UK Research and Innovation

Research funding opportunities offered by UK Research and Innovation.

• UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
• UKRI Medical Research Council (MRC)
• UKRI Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBRSC)
• UKRI Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPRSC)
• UKRI Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

European Funding Schemes

Research funding opportunities offered by European Funders.

• European Research Council (ERC)
• Horizon 2020

Support and advice

Find information about support available to researchers applying for grants and fellowships.