ESRC Research grants, 2020+ ongoing call

ESRC Research Grants range from £350,000 to £1 million (100 per cent full Economic Cost (fEC)) and are made to eligible institutions to enable individuals or research teams to undertake anything from a standard research project through to a large-scale survey and other infrastructure or methodological development.

There is considerable flexibility when it comes to subject area, too. As long as you always make sure that your suggested topic falls within ESRC's remit, you are free to concentrate on any research area. Proposals can draw from the wider sciences, but the social sciences must represent more than 50 per cent of the research focus and effort. Please see the Call Specification and scheme specific Je-S Guidance on the ESRC website for what can be applied for under this call.

You can submit proposals to this call at any time - there are no fixed closing dates. ESRC aim to announce the majority of decisions within 26 weeks of receiving the proposal although they cannot guarantee this, since it is dependent on receiving sufficient good quality peer review comments within the necessary timescale.

For the full call text please visit the ESRC grant call webpage.