External Research Funding Opportunities
This section provides details of the major research sponsors and links to the organisations’ websites.
How can I be notified about funding opportunities?
The university subscribes to the Research Professional database. Research Professional is an online platform that provides a searchable database of national and international opportunities, news from the research world and funding bodies and access to discussion forums.
The database can be accessed via the following link: http://www.researchprofessional.com/
Researchers can also subscribe to email alerting services (or RSS feeds) provided by individual funders.
National Opportunities
Research Councils
- Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
- Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
- Medical Research Council (MRC)
- Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Charities and Trusts (list in alphabetical order and represent link as for Research Councils)
- Arthritis Research UK
- Alzheimer’s Research UK
- Breast Cancer Campaign
- British Heart Foundation
- Cancer Research UK
- Carbon Trust
- Diabetes UK
- Epilepsy Research UK
- Levehulme Trust
- Nuffield Foundation
- Royal Society
- Royal Academy of Engineering
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Sir Joules Thorne Charitable Trust
- Wellcome Trust
Government Departments
- Department for Employment and Learning in Northern Ireland http://www.delni.gov.uk/
- National Institute for Health Research http://www.nihr.ac.uk
European Opportunities
European Framework Programmes >>
European Respiratory Society http://www.ersnet.org/ers-funding.html
