Funding Opportunities
Funders such as the Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, and the Gates Foundation have long supported Global Health projects, however funding for Global Health research has recently been made more prominent in UK research portfolios, largely due to the Government’s 2015 Comprehensive Spending Review in 2015.
There is now significant funding available through:
This additional funding is a key component in the delivery of the UK Aid Strategy: tackling global challenges in the national interest and ensuring that UK research takes a leading role in addressing the problems faced by low and middle income countries (LMICs).
Internal Funding Opportunities
Pump Priming for Research
Pump Priming for Research
The University of Birmingham offers several internal funding streams that will help people pump prime their research proposals. All opportunities can be viewed on our SharePoint site, which includes:
- Impact Acceleration Accounts
- BBSRC Flexible Talent Mobility Account
- Birmingham Institutional Impact Fund
- Horizon Europe Development Grant
Please note a staff or student login is required to access this site.
CMH College Global Engagement Fund
CMH College Global Engagement Fund
The College Global Engagement Fund aims to support projects that will assist in advancing the College’s Global Engagement Strategy as well as support the career development of individual staff. These projects may involve international travel (outgoing or incoming), but virtual activities are also eligible for support.
The typical maximum amount per staff member is £1,000 per year.
Further details are available on our SharePoint site (staff login is required).
Wellcome ISSF Fund
Wellcome ISSF Fund
The Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF) enables universities in the UK and Ireland to invest in areas that are of mutual strategic importance to Wellcome and the individual institutions. These are within and across medical and clinical sciences, public health, social sciences and medical humanities.
For further information, please visit the Wellcome website.
Contact for internal funding queries
For any queries regarding internal funding opportunities at the University of Birmingham, please contact our Central Funds team.
External Funding Opportunities
Response-mode opportunities
Response-mode opportunities
‘Response mode’ refers to standing schemes where investigator-led, bottom-up proposals will be assessed by standing Boards, Panels and Committees.
Both Wellcome and MRC – major funders of research for our College - have standing response-mode schemes that accept global health research to any competition. Please see the MRC website for a statement on their support for global health research.
If applying to either Wellcome or the MRC, we strongly advise you to discuss this with the funder programme manager.
Manged-mode Funding Opportunities
Manged-mode Funding Opportunities
‘Managed mode’ refers schemes time-limited schemes that typically have a limited remit, defined by the funder based on funding priorities identified through a top-down analysis of strategic gaps.
As these time-limited calls are often only live for a short while, we provide links to where UoB researchers can look up current opportunities: