Currently 3 active research and journalism grants, fellowships and residencies open to applicants in the UK. Hand-curated and updated weekly. Almost every entry is funded; a few notable unpaid open calls and festival submissions are included as clearly flagged exceptions. Browse the list below, or use the interactive desk for filtering and shortlisting.
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DigiPulse is a three-year longitudinal, international research project in LSE's Digital Futures for Children centre investigating the real-time relationships between children's smartphone use and their wellbeing, with data collected in the UK, Brazil and Kenya. The project combines passive smartphone tracking, Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) and longitudinal surveys with around 750 children and young people aged 10-17. THE ROLE: the Research Officer plays a central part in project management, development, data collection and analysis, with particular responsibility for developing and refining EMA instruments, contributing to the research literature and hypotheses, supporting participatory and consultative work with children, and conducting statistical analysis and producing findings, working closely with partners in the UK, Brazil and Kenya. REQUIREMENTS: a completed PhD in a relevant discipline (e.g. media and communications, psychology, psychiatry, sociology, education, or computational/data social science); experience developing surveys or questionnaire instruments; experience designing or conducting longitudinal research studies; and experience with EMA, experience-sampling or other intensive longitudinal data collection methods. APPLY via jobs.lse.ac.uk; questions to k.g.ringmar-sylwander@lse.ac.uk. Closing date 22 July 2026 (23:59 UK time); late applications are not accepted.
ARIA is seeking proposals for opportunity seeds, funding of up to GBP 500,000 for early-stage research that explores new pathways for climate adaptation and resilience. Decarbonisation is the only sustainable route out of the climate crisis, but environmental changes are outpacing current mitigation efforts, and if an abrupt alteration in a climate system were to unfold we would have no tools to mitigate the effects; scientific, engineering and social science research could provide practical and responsible intervention and adaptation options. WHAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR: ideas ranging from early-stage, curiosity-driven research through to advanced translational science. Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to: carbon dioxide removal (novel concepts to accelerate the drawdown of atmospheric carbon); extreme weather forecasting (breakthroughs in predicting extreme weather events to better prepare vulnerable systems); and new ideas related to solar geoengineering, strictly excluding proposals specifically designed to investigate altering the Earth's surface temperature by affecting planetary albedo, incoming solar radiation, or the atmosphere's emissivity (the core focus of the main Exploring Climate Cooling, ECC, programme). OUT OF SCOPE: ideas that squarely fit within the ECC programme; emissions reduction projects and improvements to the energy efficiency of buildings or vehicles; and commercial products or research likely to be funded by traditional venture capital or grants. CONSTRAINTS: any proposal for outdoor experiments must demonstrate conformity to ARIA's governance framework for outdoor experiments, and all successful applicants must sign ARIA's Intellectual Property Pledge to ensure findings are accessible for the public good. Application deadline: 31 July 2026, 14:00 BST.
Twelve-month postdoctoral fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh, in partnership with the British Council, marking the Council's 90th anniversary. Up to two fellowships per year as part of the 2025-2027 partnership. Fellows spend ten months residential at IASH (January to October 2027) followed by up to two months of knowledge-exchange and dissemination work in their home country in collaboration with the British Council. ELIGIBILITY: postdoctoral researchers based in an ODA-recipient country where the British Council operates (full list of ~60+ countries published on the IASH page, spanning Albania to Zimbabwe and including the Occupied Palestinian Territories); PhD completed within the last seven years (career breaks excluded from the seven-year window); applicants must not hold a permanent university position and must not have held a prior IASH Fellowship. Research themes should align with British Council priorities across Arts, Education and English language, plus cross-cutting interests in international relations, soft power, international development, peace building, and cultural relations and diplomacy. NOTE: applicants are required to contact relevant University of Edinburgh researchers before submitting; informational webinar 26 May 2026. Decisions communicated late September 2026. References (minimum two, maximum three) must be emailed by referees directly to iash@ed.ac.uk by the deadline.