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Directorate
Directorate overview
Professor Alan Blackwell (Director of Research)
Dr David Good (Director of Research)
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Interest Group Champions
Interest Group Champions overview
Dr Alexandre Kabla
Dr Alice Moncaster
Christopher Whitney
Dr Dora Pereira
Dr Karishma Jain
Dr Ljiljana Fruk
Professor Manuel Eisner
Dr Sharath Srinivasan
Stewart McTavish
Shirley Jamieson
Strategy Team
Strategy Team overview
Dr Alexandra Winkels
Professor Carol Brayne
Professor David Dunne
Professor Howard Griffiths
Dr Isabelle de Wouters
Dr Jennifer Molloy
Professor Jeremy Baumberg
Nicola Buckley
Dr Shailaja Fennell
Advisory Council
Advisory Council overview
Dr Bhaskar Vira
Professor Clare Grey
Dr Erwin Reisner
Professor John Clarkson
Professor Koen Steemers
Professor Pauline Rose
Dr Richard Fenner
Professor Sir Richard Friend
Dr Robert Doubleday
Professor Simon Goldhill
Dr Tim Minshall
Global Challenges Initiative Members
Global Challenges Initiative Members overview
Dr Adam Branch
Adeline Klotz
Dr Agnieszka Iwasiewicz-Wabnig
Dr Ajith Kumar Parlikad
Professor Alan Blackwell (Director of Research)
Dr Alexander Patto
Dr Alexander Archibald
Dr Alexandre Kabla
Alexandra Grigore
Dr Alexandra Winkels
Dr Alice Moncaster
Professor Alison Smith
An Bao
Dr Andrew Marsden
Dr Anne Alexander
Aris Vrettos
Dr Arjuna Sathiaseelan
Professor Ashok Venkitaraman
Professor Ashwin Seshia
Dr Bhaskar Vira (Advisory Board)
Professor Bill Clyne
Dr Bjoern Hassler
Professor Carol Brayne (Advisory Board)
Dr Catherine Rhodes
Professor Cecilia Mascolo
Dr Charlotte Sausman
Dr Chris Sandbrook
Christian Boehm
Christiana Smyrilli
Professor Clare Grey (Advisory Board)
Dr Claudia Abreu Lopes
Professor Sir Colin Humphreys
Dr Dai Morgan
Dan Storisteanu
Dr Darshil Shah
Professor David Dunne (Advisory Board)
Dr David Fairen-Jimenez
Dr David Good (Director of Research)
Dr Dongfang Liang
Dr Dora Pereira
Dr Eiko Yoneki
Elisabeth Liddle
Dr Elizabeth Wagemann
Dr Erwin Reisner (Advisory Board)
Fung Sing Choi
Giles Barton-Owen
Han Cheng
Dr Hatice Gunes
Professor Howard Griffiths (Advisory Board)
Dr Ingrid Schröder
Dr Ivan Reyna-Lorens
Jacqueline Garget
Professor Jaideep Prabhu
Dr Jagjit Srai
Dr Jake Reynolds
Dr James Griffiths
Dr Jat Singh
Dr Jennifer Molloy
Professor Jennifer Schooling
Dr Jenny Tillotson
Professor Jeremy Baumberg (Advisory Board)
Professor Jim Haseloff
Professor John Clarkson (Advisory Board)
Dr John Suberu
Juan Sebastian Canavera Herrera
Professor Judith Driscoll
Dr Julieta Galante
Dr Karishma Jain
Dr Karl Prince
Kate Parsley
Dr Kayla Friedman
Professor Koen Steemers (Advisory Board)
Dr Krishnaa Mahbubani
Dr Lara Allen (Director of Implementation and Impact)
Laura Carnicero
Dr Laura James
Professor Lisa Hall
Dr Ljiljana Fruk
Luke Braidwood
Dr Maria Holgado
Dr Mariana Fazenda
Matt Mahmoudi
Dr Maximilian Bock
Dr Michael de Volder
Michael Coto
Professor Michael Barrett
Michael Meaney
Dr Minna Lammi
Miranda Robbins
Miying Yang
Dr Mukesh Kumar
Dr Nalin Patel
Nicola Buckley
Dr Nigel Collier
Oliver Vanderpoorten
Professor Oren Scherman
Orsolya Ihasz
Professor Paul Tracey
Professor Pauline Rose (Advisory Board)
Paulo Savaget
Dr Richard Fenner (Advisory Board)
Dr Robbie Duschinsky
Dr Robert Doubleday (Advisory Board)
Dr Sanjiv Sambandan
Dr Sara Serradas Duarte
Dr Sarah Nouwen
Dr Shafiq Ahmed
Dr Shailaja Fennell (Advisory Board)
Dr Sharath Srinivasan (Advisory Board)
Dr Sohini Kar Narayan
Dr Tariq Masood
Dr Tim Forman
Dr Tim Minshall (Advisory Board)
Dr Toby Norman
Dr Vasant Kumar
Dr Ying Jin
Dr Yolana Pringle
Dr Zhongzhao Teng
Professor Sarah Radcliffe
Professor Shaz Ansari
Professor Simon Goldhill (Advisory Board)
Professor Simon Szreter
Professor Sir Richard Friend (Advisory Board)
Professor Steve Evans
Rainbow Wilcox
Ravi Solanki
Sarah Garland
Stewart McTavish
Taskeen Adam
Tianheng Zhao
Wen Liu
Civil Society Partner Organizations
Civil Society Partner Organizations overview
WSUP (Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor)
Research and Activities
Research and Activities overview
Themes
Themes overview
Food systems and sustainable agriculture
Sustainable health and well-being
Education
Clean air, water and sanitation
Renewable energy and materials
Sustainable livelihoods
Climate change
Sustainable cities and communities
Refugee crises
Reduce conflict and promote peace
Poverty and inequality
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Funding
Funding overview
Open Calls
Open Calls overview
Horizon 2020: European Union funding for research into global and EU challenges (various deadlines)
UK Royal Society – Newton Advanced Fellowships 2018
Research and Innovation for Global Health Transformation (RIGHT) - Call 1 (deadline: 1st Aug 2018)
EPSRC IAA Knowledge Transfer Fellowships (deadline: 3rd August 2018)
EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account Partnership Development Awards (deadline: 3rd August 2018)
RS/WT Sir Henry Dale Fellowship - Summer 2018 round (EOI: 7th Aug 2018; full application deadline: 18th Oct 2018)
WT Open Research Fund Call (deadline: 7th Aug 2018)
GCRF/Academy of Medical Sciences/RAENG/British Academy/Royal Society Networking Grants (deadline: 8th August 2018)
Newton Fund Call for Participants to Researcher Links Workshop: “Advancing work, health and well-being in rural and urban Malaysia” (deadline: 10th Aug 2018)
WT/AHPSR Call: Heightening Institutional capacity for Government use of Health Research - HIGH-Res (EOI: 15th Aug 2018; application deadline: 16 Nov 2018)
AHRC/GCRF Call: Community-Led Strategies for Creative and Heritage-Based Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa (deadline: 15th August 2018)
NERC/Newton Fund/CONCYTEC Call: Peruvian Glacial Retreat and its Impact on Water Security & Resilience to Natural Hazards (deadline: 16th Aug 2018)
MRC/BBSRC/AHR/ESRC/CONCYTEC Call: Relationship between Food, Nutrition and Health (EOI: 18th Aug 2018)
DHSC Call: SBRI Competition to address AMR in Humans (deadline: 22nd Aug 2018)
MFMC’s Grant Program: Promoting Efforts to Protect the Natural Environment (deadline: 27th August 2018)
UKAid/CORNTD Call: Operational Research on Access to Morbidity Management & Disability Prevention Services (deadline: 30th Aug 2018)
Darwin Plus: Overseas Territories Environment and Climate Fund, Round 7 (deadline: 3rd Sept 2018)
ERC Advanced Grants (deadline: 30th Aug 2018)
GCRF/UKRI-UNDP joint report: How science, research and innovation can best contribute to meeting the SDGs for developing countries (EOI: 31st Aug 2018)
ESRC/Alan Turing Institute joint fellowship (deadline: 5th Sept 2018)
2018 GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge (deadline: 5th September 2018)
MRC/NIHR/GACD Call: Scaling-up of evidence-based interventions at the population level for the prevention and/or management of hypertension and/or diabetes (deadline: 10th Sept 2018)
WT Public Engagement Fund Call for proposals to engage the public with health research (deadline: 11th September 2018)
BBSRC/GCRF Call: Food & nutrition research for health in the developing world (deadline: 11th Sept 2018)
STFC/GCRF Call: External Innovations & 21st Century Challenges (deadline: 11th Sept)
BA Global Professorships (deadline: 12th Sept 2018)
InnoVET-AMR Call for proposals: Developing innovative veterinary solutions for the fight against antimicrobial resistance (deadline: 12th September 2018)
MRC/DFID/NIHR/WT Call: Joint Global Health Trials scheme – call 9 (Outline proposal deadline: 13th Sept 2018; full application deadline: Feb 2019)
Newton Fund Research Environment Links Grants; UK and Turkey (deadline: 17th Sept 2018)
MRC/DFID/NIHR/ESRC Call: Research to improve adolescent health in LMIC settings (deadline: 18th Sept 2018)
BBSRC/GCRF Call: Agri-systems research to enhance livelihoods in developing countries (deadline: 19th Sept 2018)
NERC/GCRF Follow-on Fund (deadline: 19th September 2018)
RAENG Research Fellowships and Engineering for Development Research Fellowships (deadline: 24th Sept 2018)
RAENG/GCRF/Anglo American Higher Education Partnerships in sub-Saharan Africa (deadline: 27th Sept 2018)
RAENG Research Fellowships and Engineering for Development Research Fellowships (deadline: 24th September
INT Research Grants, Michaelmas 2018 Call (departmental deadline: 28th Sept 2018; draft application deadline: 5th Oct 2018)
STFC/GCRF Call: 21st century challenge networks (deadline: 2nd Oct 2018)
EDCTP Call: Diagnostic tools for poverty-related diseases (EOI deadline: 11th Oct 2018; full proposal submission by invitation: 21st March 2019)
EDCTP Call: Advances in product development for effective prevention, treatment and management of co-infections and co-morbidities in Sub-Saharan Africa (EOI: 18th Oct 2018; full proposal by invitation: 28th March 2019)
EDCTP Call: Strategic action for overcoming drug resistance in malaria (deadline: 30th Oct 2018)
ESRC/Joint Nordic-UK Research Programme on Migration and Integration (deadline: 15th Nov 2018)
MRC/GCRF Call Global Mental Health (deadline: 6th November 2018)
Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorships (deadline: 11th Oct 2018)
EDCTP Call: Capacity development to facilitate delivery and uptake of new or improved medical interventions in African health systems (deadline: 11th Oct 2018)
EDCTP Call: Vaccines for diarrhoeal diseases or lower respiratory tract infections (deadline: 30th Oct 2018)
RSE/BBSRC/STFC Call: Enterprise Fellowships (deadline: 31st Oct 2018)
EDCTP Call: Strategic action for the comparison, selection and development of malaria vaccine candidates (deadline: 1st Nov 2018)
AHRC/GCRF/GRNPP Call: Parliaments and People in Myanmar and Ethiopia Second Round (deadline: 30th Sept 2018)
Newton Researcher Links Workshop: The roadmap to echinococcosis control in Peru: review and synthesis of the evidence (application deadline: 23rd July)
ESRC-AHRC Call: UK-Japan SSH Connections grants (deadline: 27th Sept 2018)
BA Call: Knowledge Frontiers, International Interdisciplinary Research Projects (deadline: 3rd Oct 2018)
BA Call: The Humanities and Social Sciences Tackling the UK's International Challenges (deadline: 3rd Oct 2018)
NGS/Microsoft Call: AI for Earth. Artificial intelligence tools for a more sustainable planet (deadline: 8th Oct 2018)
Pre-Call Announcements
Pre-Call Announcements overview
R2HC's annual Call for Proposals will open in June 2018 (webinar 5th June)
UKRI pre-call announcement: Prospering from the Energy Revolution Challenge (demonstrator, concept and design deadline: 25th July 2018)
New call for applications for British Academy's TUKIC 2018 Awards due to launch soon
Pre-announcement: BBSRC/NERC-CONICET Joint Awards for AMR in the Environment (opening: October 2018)
NERC/UK Aid Pre-Call: Global antimicrobial resistance innovation fund (deadline: TBA)
Pre-Call announcement: next call for ERC Consolidator Grants due summer 2018
Pre-Call announcement: next round of ERC Starting Grants due to open in Summer 2018
ESRC Pre-Call: New Phase of National Centre for Research Methods 2019-2024 (EOI: 18th Oct 2018)
US/UK/Canada Humanitarian grand challenge 'Creating hope in conflict' expected to open in 2019
Responsive Calls
Responsive Calls overview
Hamied Visiting Fellowship
Internal funding opportunity: Support for Preparation of Large Cross-School Research Funding Bids
Royal Society's Newton Mobility Grants
Royal Society/Newton Fund country-based funding opportunities
Digital Impact Grants
Global Innovation Fund
AHRC Follow-on Funding for Impact and Engagement
BBSRC: International Travel Award Scheme (deadline: 6 weeks prior to travel)
BBSRC-FAPESP Pump-priming awards (deadline: 12 weeks prior to start of project)
EPSRC: Overseas Travel Grants (deadline: 16 weeks prior to travel)
BBSRC/RCUK-Brazil (FAPESP) joint funding of research (deadline: 25th Sept 2018)
Cambridge internal funding opportunity: EPSRC Posdoc placements
Cambridge Big Data: Call for proposals - suggestions for interdisciplinary workshops
Commonwealth Scholarships for UK citizens
AHRC Research Grants - Early Careers (rolling deadline)
BBSRC Call: New Investigator Scheme (deadline: 25th Sept 2018)
Studentships
Studentships overview
The One Young World is seeking applications for its Carole Stone Foundation Scholarship 2018 (deadline: 18th July 2018)
Newton Bhabha PhD Placement Programme (deadline: 4th Aug 2018)
Newton Fund PhD Placements (and Supervisor Mobility) Grants China-UK (deadline: 20th Sept 2018)
Prizes and Awards
Prizes and Awards overview
Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards 2018 (deadline: 29th June 2018)
WT University Awards in Humanities and Social Science 2018 (internal Cambridge deadline: 15th June 2018; funder deadline: 6th July)
World Water Challenge 2018 (application deadline: 30 July 2018)
The Third Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize Nominations Open (nomination deadline: 31st July 2018)
Solutions Search Competition: Climate Change needs Behaviour Change (deadline: 7th Aug 2018)
Sir Jules Thorn Biomedical Research Award (internal Cambridge deadline:14th Aug 2018)
RGS Rob Potter Award 2018 (deadline: 23rd Nov 2018)
Funding Archive
Funding Archive overview
Healthy Minds for Adolescent Mothers: Achieving Healthy Outcomes for the Family (deadline: 8th November 2017)
BBSRC/GCRF Sustainable Agriculture for Sub-Saharan Africa (SASSA) (deadline: 8th November 2017)
UK-Vietnam Partnerships for Infectious Disease Research (expression of interest: 7th November 2017; proposal deadline: 12th December 2017)
STFC Challenge-Led Applied Systems Programme (CLASP) (deadline: 7th November 2017)
MRC Confidence in Concept scheme - Flexible institutional awards for preliminary translational work (deadline: 7th November 2017)
Antimicrobial Target Discovery and Validation (EoI deadline: 3rd November 2017; full proposal deadline: 4th December 2017)
DfID Maintaining Essential Services after Natural Disasters (MAINTAINS) (deadline: 2nd November 2017)
EDCTP Targeting control and elimination of NIDs through product-focused implementation research (deadline: 2nd November 2017)
BBSRC GCRF Strategic Training Awards for Research Skills (deadline: 1st November 2017)
Restricted call: ESRC Transformative Research call 2017-18 (Cambridge internal deadline: 31st October 2017; EPSRC deadline: 7th November 2017)
AHRC-ESRC-FCO Knowledge Exchange Fellowship scheme (deadline: 31st October 2017)
EDCTP Targeting control and elimination of NIDs through clinical trials (deadline: 31st October 2017)
AHRC-MRC GCRF Global Public Health: Partnership Awards Call 2 (deadline: 26th October 2017)
Department of Health/ UK Vaccine Network/ BBSRC "One Health" Approaches to Accelerate Vaccine Development (deadline: 25th October 2017)
BBSRC/GCRF Translation Award (deadline: 25th October 2017)
Newton Fund Researcher Links Travel Grants - UK and Peru (deadline: 25th October 2017)
UK-India Newton-Bhabha Fund joint call on pulses and oilseeds (deadline: 24th October 2017)
NERC/AHRC Exploring & Understanding Colombian Bio Resources (deadline: 24th October 2017)
International Centre for Humanities and Social Change - Humanities/ social science-led projects (Phase 1 deadline: 23th October 2017)
RAE GCRF Africa Catalyst (deadline: 23th October 2017)
Newton Fund/ BEIS Researcher Links Biodiversity Travel Grants - Latin America (deadline: 20th October 2017)
Newton UK-China Agritech Challenge 2017 (registration deadline: 13th September 2017; application deadline: 20th September 2017)
British Academy Knowledge Frontiers: International Interdisciplinary Research Projects (deadline: 11th October 2017)
British Academy The Humanities and Social Sciences Tackling the UK's International Challenges (deadline: 11th October 2017)
BBSRC Follow-on Funding Call (deadline: 10th Oct 2018)
Innovate UK/ BBSRC/ EPSRC/ Newton Bhabha UK-India Industrial Waste Challenge 2017 (registration deadline: 11th October 2017; application deadline: 11th October 2017)
BBSRC-Brazil (FAPESP) joint funding of research (deadline: 4th October 2017)
Restricted call: Leverhulme Research Centres 2018 (Cambridge's internal deadline: 1st October 2017; Leverhulme Trust deadline: 9th January 2018)
Royal Society International Exchanges Scheme (deadline of different geographically-focused calls: October)
Singapore National Research Foundation’s Intra CREATE seed funding grant call (deadline: 30th September 2017)
Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies (MEITS) Flexible Funding Scheme (deadline: 30th September 2017)
Opportunity for Leading and Established Researchers in Systems Analysis - UK-South Africa (deadline: 29th September 2017)
GCRF Collective Fund Interdisciplinary Research Hubs (Cambridge internal deadlines: 29th September, 18th October, 27th October, 30th October 2017; RCUK/GCRF deadlines: 29th September, 9th of November)
NERC/DfID/ESRC Building resilience to natural disasters using financial instruments (deadline: 26th September 2017)
IDRC Strengthening engineering research and training in Africa (expression of interest deadline: 24th September 2017)
India-UK Water Centre: Open Calls for Workshops and Researcher Exchanges (deadline: 22nd September 2017)
Newton Fund Institutional Links Grants (deadline: 19th September 2017)
British Council Cultural Protection Fund - Large Grants (Cambridge deadline for letter of support: 18th September 2017; EoI deadline: 3rd November 2017)
Anticipated EPSRC 2018 CDT Call: Expression of Interest (deadline: 15th September 2017)
DfID/ MRC/ NIHR/ Wellcome Trust Global Health Trials scheme (deadline: 14th September 2017)
Pre-call announcement: BBSRC-FAPESP Joint Pump-Priming Awards for Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR) and Insect Pest Resistance in Agriculture (non-mandatory workshop deadline: 29th August 2017; call opens early December 2017)
EDCTP Clinical trials to reduce health inequities in pregnant women, newborns and children (deadline: 13th October 2017)
UK (RCUK/Newton Trust)-India (DBT) Antimicrobial Resistance Initiative (deadline for mandatory sandpit: 11th September 2017)
Human Development Innovation Fund of Tanzania – Phase 3 (deadline: 8th September 2017)
NERC Call for ideas for strategic research (cut-off date for strategic programme areas (SPAs) ideas: 7th September 2017)
Newton Advanced Fellowships (deadline: 6th September 2017)
RCUK-CIAT Newton-Caldas Fund Sustainable Tropical Agricultural Systems Programme (expression of interest deadline: 6th September 2017)
EDCTP - Treatment innovations for poverty-related diseases (deadline: 5th September 2017)
STFC/ GCRF Foundation Awards 2017 (deadline: 5th September 2017)
GPSDD Collaborative Data Innovations for Sustainable Development (deadline: 1st September 2017)
Mission Innovation – Off Grid Access to Electricity (deadline: 31st August 2017)
Restricted call: NIHR Global Health Research Groups (Cambridge's internal deadline: 24th August; NIHR deadline: 20th October 2017)
Newton RCUK-CONICYT Broadening Impact Call 2017 - Energy-Food-Water-Environment Nexus (deadline for intention to submit: 18th August 2017)
EPSRC/GCRF Resilient and sustainable energy networks for developing countries (mandatory EoI deadline: 17th August; application deadline: 21st September 2017)
Elrha’s Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises Programme (R2HC) - ‘Open Call’ (deadline: 16th August 2017)
DfID Developing Effective Private Education in Nigeria Challenge Fund (deadline: 12th August 2017)
Restricted call: Medical Research Council/ GCRF Global Nutrition and Health Research institutional "pump-priming" awards (Cambridge's internal deadline: 4th August 2017; MRC deadline: 14th September 2017)
Restricted call: Medical Research Council/GCRF Global Mental Health Research institutional "pump-priming" awards (Cambridge's internal deadline: 4th August 2017; MRC deadline: 14th September 2017)
Internal funding opportunity: EPSRC Global Challenge Research Fund grants (deadline: 31st August 2017)
2017 Global Alliance funding call (expression of interest deadline: 31st July 2017; call deadline: 11th September 2017)
EPSRC/RCUK Inclusion Matters - furthering equality, diversity and inclusion in Engineering and Physical Sciences research (deadline: 7th November 2017)
OpenPlant Fund (deadline: 30th June 2017)
Restricted call: Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowships and GCRF Engineering for Development Research Fellowships 2017/18 (Cambridge's internal deadline: 21st July 2017; RAE deadline: 6th September 2017)
SARIC/BBSRC/NERC Third Call to support sustainable agriculture (deadline for SARIC Sandpit 2017: 11th September 2017)
Innovations for Integrated Diagnostics Systems (deadline: 8th November 2017)
Novel Approaches for Improving Timeliness of Routine Immunization Birthdose and Healthcare Worker Skill in Low-Resource Settings (deadline: 8th November 2017)
EPSRC-UKRI Innovation Fellowships (deadline: 9th November 2017)
Leverhulme Trust International Academic Fellowships (deadline: 9th November 2017)
NERC/EPSRC/ESRC/BEIS/STFC Greenhouse Gas Removal from the Atmosphere (deadline: 10th November 2017)
DfID Funding for development research – Research to improve the quality of teaching and learning inside Syria (deadline: 10th November 2017)
NIHR Policy Research Programme Call on Epidemiology for Vaccinology (deadline: 14th November 2017)
Newton Fund CSSP Brazil research - Estimating methane fluxes through inverse modelling (deadline: 15th November 2017)
British Academy/DfID Anti-Corruption Evidence (ACE) Programme (deadline: 15th November 2017)
Newton Fund CSSP Brazil research - Meteorological driving data for offline land surface and impacts simulations (deadline: 15th November 2017)
Wellcome Trust Collaborative Awards in Science (deadline: 15th November 2017)
EPSRC call for Supergen Solar Network+ expansion (deadline: 16th November 2017)
BBSRC International Workshops (deadline: 16th November 2017)
Newton Fund/ STFC-NARIT Thailand Capacity Building in Software and Hardware Infrastructures and Data Handling through Astronomy (deadline: 16th November 2017)
BBSRC Other Countries Partnering Awards - Brazil, China, India, Japan, USA and Taiwan (deadline: 16th November 2017)
Restricted call: RCUK IAA Innovation Fellowship (Cambridge's internal deadline: 17th November)
Science for Humanitarian Emergencies & Resilience (SHEAR) – Catalyst grants (bid outline deadline: 21st November 2017; full proposal deadline: 10th April 2018)
OpenPlant Fund (deadline: 24th November 2017)
Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowships in Public Health and Tropical Medicine (deadline: 27th November 2017)
WSUP research call: Analysing lessons from the sanitation surcharge experience in Mozambique (deadline: 28th November 2017)
EqUIP call for collaborative research on sustainability, equity, wellbeing and cultural connections (deadline: 30th November 2017)
Wellcome Trust Intermediate Fellowships in Public Health and Tropical Medicine (deadline: 30th November 2017)
Wellcome Trust Training Fellowships in Public Health and Tropical Medicine (deadline: 30th November 2017)
2017/18 Evelyn Trust Grants Medical Research Grants (deadline: 30th November 2017)
AHRC Heritage in Changing Environments Call (deadline: 30th November 2017)
Isaac Newton Trust/University of Cambridge Early Career Support Scheme for the Schools of Physical Sciences and Technology (deadline: 30th November 2017)
WHO-AFRO/TDR/EDCTP Small Grants Scheme for implementation research on infectious diseases of poverty (deadline: 30th November 2017)
Newton RCUK-Colciencias Research Partnerships Call 2017 (call opening 28th September 2017; deadline: 30th November 2017)
Arts and Humanities Impact Fund (Cambridge internal deadline: 27th November 2017; deadline: 5th March 2018)
USAID call for Innovations in assessing Feed the Future (concept paper deadline: 1st December 2017)
EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account Partnership Development Awards (deadline: 1st December 2017, 6th April, 3rd August, 7th December 2018)
NERC/ Newton Fund Understanding of the Impacts of Hydrometeorological Hazards in South East Asia (deadlines: 4th December 2017, 21st February 2018)
Newton Fund CSSP Brazil research - Processes and predictability associated with sub-seasonal rainfall variability in Brazil (deadline: 4th December 2017)
Isaac Newton Trust/ Wellcome Trust ISSF/ University of Cambridge Joint Research Grants Scheme (deadline: 4th December 2017)
STFC/ MoHE/ Newton Fund call for Collaborative research for higher level STEM skills in Malaysia proposals (deadline: 5th December 2017)
RCUK Transformative Research Technologies (deadline: 5th December 2017)
AHRC Cultural Heritage and Rapid Urbanisation in India (deadline: 7th December 2017)
APEX Interdisciplinary Research Awards (deadline: 14th December 2017)
Analysis of citizen and decision-maker attitudes to freshwater pollution in Bangladeshi cities as a basis for more effective regulation (deadline: 13th March 2018)
BA/Jisc Digital Research in the Humanities Grants (deadline: 13th June 2018)
BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants (deadline: 6th June 2018)
BBSRC-FAPESP Joint Pump-Priming Awards for AMR and Insect Pest Resistance in Livestock and Agriculture (deadline: 6th December 2017)
BBSRC/ Newton Fund Call: Improving Mexican Crop Resilience to Abiotic Stress (deadline: 19th July 2018)
BBSRC/GCRF Call Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy in the Developing World (deadline: 6th June 2018)
Bayer Grants4Targets (deadline: 31st March 2018)
Biomaker Challenge (deadline: 11h May 2018)
Biomaker Challenge (deadline: 11h May 2018)
British Academy/ Newton Fund Advanced Fellowships (deadline: 20th December 2017)
British Academy/ Newton Mobility Grants (deadline: 20th December 2017)
CIFAR Global Call for Ideas (deadline: 21st January 2018)
Cambridge Global Food Security Early Career Researcher Travel Fund 2018 (deadline: 15th May 2018)
Cambridge Global Food Security Early Career Researcher Travel Fund 2018 (deadline: 15th May 2018)
Cambridge Humanities Research Grants Scheme 2017-18 (deadline: 1st March 2018)
China-UK AMR Partnership Hubs 2018 (EoI deadline: 30th April 2018; deadline: 14th June 2018)
China-UK AMR Partnership Hubs 2018 (EoI deadline: 30th April 2018; deadline: 14th June 2018)
EPSRC Healthcare Impact Partnerships 2018/2019 (internal Cambridge deadline: 27 June 2018; EOI deadline: 12 July; application deadline: 23 August 2019)
EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account Follow-On Fund (deadlines: 26th January, 25th May, 28th September 2018)
EPSRC Trust and Global Governance Large Grants (Cambridge internal deadline: 25th May 2018; deadline: 28th June)
EPSRC Trust and Global Governance Large Grants (Cambridge internal deadline: 25th May 2018; deadline: 28th June)
EPSRC: Materials for low-carbon hydrogen production (deadline: 7th December 2017)
ESRC 2018 Celebrating Impact Prize (deadline: 23th November 2017)
ESRC Call: Transnational organised crime; Deepening and broadening our understanding (deadline: 14th June 2018)
ESRC Centres Competition 2018 (Cambridge internal deadline: 5th January 2018; deadline: 15th March 2018)
ESRC Climate Change Centres Call (Cambridge internal deadline: 24th April 2018; deadline: 5th June 2018)
ESRC Climate Change Centres Call (Cambridge internal deadline: 24th April 2018; deadline: 5th June 2018)
ESRC Climate Change Network Plus Call (Cambridge internal deadline: 15th May 2018; deadline: 5th June 2018)
ESRC Climate Change Network Plus Call (Cambridge internal deadline: 15th May 2018; deadline: 5th June 2018)
ESRC Impact Acceleration Account funding (deadline: 5th February 2018)
ESRC Impact Acceleration Account: Impact, Follow-on and NGO Data calls (Cambridge internal deadline: 1st June 2018)
ESRC Impact Acceleration Account: Impact, Follow-on and NGO Data calls (Cambridge internal deadline: 1st June 2018)
ESRC Large Grants Competition 2018 (deadline: 14th June 2018)
ESRC New Investigator Grants (Cambridge internal deadline: 25th June 2018; deadline March 2019)
ESRC New Investigator Grants (Cambridge internal deadline: 25th June 2018; deadline: March 2019)
ESRC Trust and Global Governance Large Grants (deadline: 28th June)
ESRC Trust and Global Governance Large Grants
ESRC-NIHR dementia research initiative 2018 (deadline: 15th March 2018)
ESRC/AHRC/GCRF New social and cultural insights into mental, neurological and substance use disorders in developing countries (deadline: 11th January 2018)
ESRC/CONACYT/Newton Fund call for collaborative research: Smart Cities in Mexico (deadline: 9th May 2018)
ESRC/CONACYT/Newton Fund call for collaborative research: Smart Cities in Mexico (deadline: 9th May 2018)
ESRC/GCRF Inequalities and skills acquisition in young people (deadline: 22nd March 2018)
ESRC/GCRF New Models of Sustainable Development (deadline: 11th January 2018)
ESRC/GCRF New models of sustainable development (deadline: 11th January 2018)
Elrha’s Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises Programme (R2HC) - ‘Open Call’ (deadline: 16th July 2018)
Environmental Research & Education Foundation call for Sustainable Solid Waste Management Research Programme (deadline: 6th January 2018)
GCRF Highlight Notice for International Development: Follow on Funding for Impact and Engagement Scheme (deadline: 25th July 2018)
Gates Foundation Grand Challenge: Ending the Pandemic Threat, A Universal Influenza Vaccine Development (deadline: 22nd June)
Gates Foundation Proposal Request for novel dual chamber injection device (deadline: 10th July 2018)
Hamied Foundation UK-India AMR Visiting Professorships (deadline: 6th April 2018)
Hamied Foundation UK-India AMR Visiting Professorships (deadline: 6th April 2018)
Inspire4Nature: 15 PhD positions (deadline: 16th April 2018)
Internal funding opportunity: ESRC Impact Fund (deadline: 5th February 2018)
International Plant Nutrition Institute Award (deadline: 30th September 2017)
JPT Family Trust Medical Science Award (deadline: 28th February 2018)
Leverhulme Trust Study Abroad Studentships (deadline: 8th January 2018)
MRC Call: Public Health Intervention Development scheme (deadline: 12th July 2018)
MRC Public Health Intervention Development Scheme (deadline: 11th January 2018)
MRC-KHIDI UK-Korea Partnering Awards (deadline: 31st January 2018)
MRC/ UK Nutrition Research Partnership Collaborative Awards (deadline: 31st July 2018)
MRC/DFID African Research Leader scheme 2018 (deadline: 27th February 2018)
MRC/ESRC/SAMRC UK-South Africa Joint Initiative on Mental Health (deadline: 2nd May 2018)
MRC/ESRC/SAMRC UK-South Africa Joint Initiative on Mental Health (deadline: 2nd May 2018)
MRC/ESRC/WT/DFID Call for Providing evidence to strengthen health systems in LMICs (deadline 5th June 2018)
MRC/ESRC/WT/DFID Call for Providing evidence to strengthen health systems in LMICs (deadline: 5th June 2018)
MRC/GCRF Cancer and Global Health Research Initiative (deadline: 20th June 2018)
MRC/GCRF Cancer and Global Health Research Initiative (deadline: 20th June 2018)
MRC/NRF UK-Kenya Joint Partnership on Non-Communicable Diseases (deadline: 9th May 2018)
MRC/NRF UK-Kenya Joint Partnership on Non-Communicable Diseases (deadline: 9th May 2018)
MRC/Newton Fund/FAPESP UK-São Paulo/Brazil: Neglected Infectious Diseases Joint Centre Partnerships (expression of interest: deadline 8th June; closing date: 19 July 2018)
MRC/RISTEKDIKTI/ Newton Fund Joint Partnership on Infectious Diseases, Call for Proposals (registration of interest: 26th June; application deadline: 24th July 2018)
Misk Grand Challenge: Activating Global Citizenship (deadline: 2nd May 2018)
Misk Grand Challenge: Activating Global Citizenship (deadline: 2nd May 2018)
NERC 2018 Impact Awards (deadline: 21st May 2018)
NERC 2018 Impact Awards (deadline: 21st May 2018)
NERC Doctoral Training Partnerships 2 (DTP2) (expression of interest deadline: 7th March; proposal deadline: 16th May)
NERC PhD studentship in biosphere-atmosphere interactions (deadline: 14th January 2018)
NERC PhD studentship: Do biogenic VOCs protect plant productivity under multiple environmental stress? (deadline: 14th January 2018)
NERC Valuing Nature Initiative – Natural Capital Synthesis Reports (deadline: 9th January 2018)
NERC/ESPRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) (Cambridge internal deadline: 12th February 2018; deadline: 13th March 2018)
NERC/Newton Fund Latin American Biodiversity Programme: Biodiversity - Ecosystem services for sustainable development (deadline: 26th July 2018)
NIH Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) - Ethical, Legal, and Societal Issues Collaborative Centers (deadline: 6th December 2017)
NIH Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa): Ethical, Legal, and Societal Issues Research Program (deadline: 6th December 2017)
Nesta Call for Ideas: How to involve the public in developing innovation policy? (deadline: 9th March 2018)
Newton BhaBha Fund Researcher Links Workshop Grants, India (deadline: 8th June 2018)
Newton Fund Institutional Links Grants (deadline: 8th June)
Newton Fund Researcher Links Travel Grants (deadline: 8th June 2018)
Newton Fund Researcher Links Workshop Grants (deadline: 8th June)
Newton Fund UK-China collaboration to tackle antimicrobial resistance (registration of interest deadline: 30th May; proposal submission deadline: 14th June 2018)
Newton Fund WCSSP SE Asia - Tropical Error Covariances for Data Assimilation (deadline: 12th December 2017)
Newton Fund researcher links workshop: Supply chain management under environmental pressure (deadline: 31st July 2018)
Newton International Fellowships - Opportunities in Brazil (deadline: 28th February 2018)
Providing evidence to strengthen health systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (Research Grant outline deadline: 30th January 2018, Foundation Grant deadline: 5 June 2018)
RCUK Cross-disciplinary mental health network plus call (deadline: 22nd March 2018)
RGS Environment and Sustainability Research Grants (deadline: 22nd February 2018)
Rosetrees Trust Interdisciplinary Prize 2018 (Cambridge internal deadline: 6th December 2018; deadline: 28th February 2018)
Royal Society Research Grants (deadline: 19th December 2017)
SFN Collaborative Scoping Projects (deadline: 6th March 2018)
SHEAR Studentship Cohort (SSC) programme - PhD studentships (deadline: 15th October 2017)
The Borysiewicz Biomedical Sciences Fellowship Programme (deadline: 26th February 2018)
The Geneva Challenge 2018 (registration deadline: 16th April 2018; submission deadline: 20th August 2018)
The Geneva Challenge 2018 (registration deadline: 16th April 2018; submission deadline: 20th August 2018)
UK Space Agency Space for All Community grant scheme (deadline: 9th February 2017)
UKRI - JSPS joint call Life Sciences and Environmental Sciences 2018 (EoI deadline: 24th July 2018)
UKRI Future Leader Fellowships (expressions of interest deadline: 7th June 2018; full application deadline: 3rd July 2018)
UKRI/EPSRC Call: Creative Circular Economy Approaches to Eliminate Plastics Waste (Cambridge internal deadline: 27th June; EoI deadline: 10th July 2018; submission deadline: 16th August 2018)
UKRI/NERC/ESRC/AHRC and international partners Call: Towards a Sustainable Earth (EOI deadline: 31st July 2018; application deadline: 14th August 2018)
University of Cambridge Internal Funding Competition: ESRC Impact Acceleration Account Fund (deadline: 5th February 2018)
University of Cambridge Vice-Chancellor’s Impact Awards (deadline: 7th May 2018)
University of Cambridge Vice-Chancellor’s Public Engangement with Research Awards (deadline: 18th May 2018)
WSUP Identification of indicator criteria for definition of high-quality shared sanitation in urban contexts (deadline: 26th February 2018)
WSUP Research around sanitation surcharges included in property taxes in Ghana (deadline: 19th February 2018)
WSUP Urban sanitation costs and low-income consumers’ willingness-to-pay (deadline: 1st December 2017)
WSUP/ Dubai Cares Call: exploratory research on increasing the impact of school-based hygiene promotion programmes in Madagascar (deadline: 23rd July 2018)
WSUP/UKAid Call: Incentivising private sector provision of faecal waste emptying services to low-income customers in Kisumu, Kenya (deadline: 23rd July 2018)
WT Awards in Humanities and Social Science (deadline: 4th July 2018)
WT Collaborative Awards in Humanities and Social Science (EoI deadline: 4th July 2018; full application deadline: 18th September 2018)
WT Investigator Awards in Science, July 2018 round (deadline: 24th July 2018)
WT Master's Programme Awards in Humanities and Social Science (deadline 11th June)
WT Seed Awards in Science (deadline: 5th July 2018)
WT Senior Research Fellowships (deadline: 24th July 2018)
WT/DFID Call Epidemic Preparedness: Social Science Research Protocols (preliminary application deadline: 11th June 2018; full application deadline: September 2018)
Wellcome Collaborative Awards in Humanities and Social Science (deadline: 9th January 2018)
Wellcome Investigator Awards in Humanities and Social Science (deadline: 9th January 2018)
Wellcome Trust Master's Fellowships in Public Health and Tropical Medicine (deadline: 26th March 2018)
Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) and other funding opportunities - Criteria and guidance
Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) and other funding opportunities - Criteria and guidance overview
Criteria for GCRF released by the GCRF Advisory Board
Global Challenges Research Fund - Funders’ observations on preparing your proposal
GCRF guidance for Official Development Assistance (ODA)
Is it ODA? Factsheet 2006
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New knowledge on children and young people: a synthesis of evidence - summary paper (Marcus, R.; Page, E.; Stephenson, J.; Walker, D.; Eldis, 2017)
Climate change, migration and displacement: the need for a risk-informed and coherent approach (Stapleton, S.O; Nadin, R.; Watson, C; Kellett, J; 2017; Shaping Policy for Development)
Realizing Agenda 2030: Will donor dollars and country priorities align with global goals? (AidData, 2017)
2017 Global Nutrition Report (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, et al.; 2017)
GW4 Alliance’s Bridging the Gap (AHRC GW4 Alliance’s Bridging the Gap project, 2017)
Rethinking Research Partnerships discussion guide and toolkit (Christian Aid and Open University, 2017)
SDSN Counting on the World: Building Modern Data Systems for Sustainable Development
Intersecting Inequalities and the Sustainable Development Goals: insights from Brazil
Royal Society: Collection of most-read articles on climate science
Second edition of "State of the World's Emergencies" published: A briefing for new UK parliamentarians
Smalholder farming systems in coastal Kenya: Key trends and innovations for resilience
The WHO public health approach to HIV treatment and care: looking back and looking ahead
Analysis of global yellow fever vaccination coverage from 1970 to 2016
Migrating to Opportunity: Overcoming Barriers to Labour Mobility in Southeast Asia
Getting started with the SDGs in universities: A guide for universities, higher education institutions, and the academic sector (UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Australian Campuses Towards Sustainability, 2017)
Has Universal Development Come of Age? (Institute of Development Studies, 2017)
Networks in Action - solutions and initiatives for the SDGs (UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, 2017)
Famine: Lessons Learned (Devereux, S., Sida, L. and Nelis, T.; 2017; Institute for Development Studies)
Antibacterial agents in clinical development - An analysis of the antibacterial clinical development pipeline, including tuberculosis (World Health Organization, 2017)
Financing health systems to achieve the health Sustainable Development Goals (Fryatt and Bhuwanee, 2017, Lancet)
The Africa Data Revolution Report 2016 - Highlighting developments in African data ecosystems (UNECA, UNDP, OpenData for development network and World Wide Web Foundation, 2016)
Growing water insecurity and dengue burden in the Americas (Akanda, A.S. and Johnson,K. May 2018, The Lancet Planetary Health)
Environmental and socioeconomic drivers in infectious disease (Schneider, M. C. and Machado, G.; May 2018, The Lancet Planetary Health)
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