Funding Initiatives

Our funding initiatives address issues of intellectual and wider cultural, social or economic urgency that the Council considers are best supported by concentrated and coherent funding initiatives.

Funding initiatives

• Beyond Text: Performances, Sounds, Voices, Images and Objects
• Designing for the 21st Century
• Diasporas, Migration and Identities
• Digital Economy Programme
• Global Uncertainties
• ICT in and Arts and Humanities Research
• Landscape and Environment
• Museums and Galleries Research
• New Dynamics of Ageing
• Religion and Society
• Science and Heritage

New cross-Council Programme

• Connected Communities

Emerging themes

• Science in Culture
• Digital Transformations in Arts and Humanities
• Care for Future
• Translating Cultures

Other activities

• Countering Terrorism in Public Places
• Franco-British Social Science and Humanities Collaborative  Workshops (links to ESRC website opens in a new window) 
• Language Based Area Studies (LBAS)
• Lifelong Health and Wellbeing
• Nature of Creativity workshops
• Networks in Synthetic Biology
• New Security Challenges: 'Radicalisation' and Violence
• Research Centres

Concluded activities

• Arts and Science Fellowships
• Cultures of Consumption
• Preserving our Past Workshops
• Previous workshop initiatives

What's New

Find out more about our latest competitions including:  

• Block Grant Partnerships 2 - Expressions of Interest  
• Follow-on Funding
• Highlight notices - extended  
• Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
• National Consultation Panel (UK) for Cultural Heritage and Global Change: Call for members
• Research Grants - Early Careers
• Research Grants - Standard
• Research Networking
• São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)
• US Collaborative Funding Opportunity

 Our latest Research Funding Guide is now available (pdf 919kb)

Emerging Themes

Find out more about our latest themes including funding opportunities:

• Digital Transformations in Arts and Humanities;
• Care for the Future;
• Translating Cultures;
• Science in Culture

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