{"id":26267,"date":"2021-07-05T11:47:56","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T10:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta-ukri.msappproxy.net\/?post_type=council&#038;p=26267"},"modified":"2025-04-25T12:48:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T11:48:45","slug":"types-of-funding-we-offer","status":"publish","type":"council","link":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/councils\/esrc\/guidance-for-applicants\/types-of-funding-we-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Types of funding we offer &#8211; ESRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We provide a range of funding, covering smaller awards to support early career researchers and larger research awards enabling both individuals and larger teams to access funding through our applicant-led research grants and centres competitions.<\/p>\n<p>We also provide funding for postgraduate training and fellowships. Our funding also supports UK data and infrastructure and methodological developments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/opportunity\/\">Find our latest funding opportunities.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Applicant-led research funding<\/h2>\n<p>We support applicant-led research which is researcher-driven and can cover any relevant ESRC topic or theme as long as it falls within ESRC\u2019s remit. Within these funding opportunities we currently have a highlight for applications in the area of artificial intelligence for social science. These funding opportunities have an open application date so researchers can apply at any time:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/opportunity\/esrc-responsive-mode-research-grants-round-two\/\">research grants<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/opportunity\/esrc-responsive-mode-new-investigator-grants-round-two\/\">new investigator grants<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/opportunity\/esrc-responsive-mode-secondary-data-analysis-round-two\/\">secondary data analysis<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Large research investments<\/h2>\n<p>We fund research centres, groups, large grants and networks as part of our large research investments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/councils\/esrc\/guidance-for-applicants\/types-of-funding-we-offer\/esrc-centres-and-institutes-funding\/\">Learn more about funding for ESRC centres and institutes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/councils\/esrc\/guidance-for-applicants\/types-of-funding-we-offer\/guidance-for-large-investments\/\">See our guidance for large research investments.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Postgraduate funding<\/h2>\n<p>We are the largest UK funding organisation for research and postgraduate training in the economic and social sciences, directed mostly through Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTPs) and Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/councils\/esrc\/career-and-skills-development\/funding-for-postgraduate-training\/\">Further information on postgraduate funding.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":26243,"template":"page.php","categories":[51],"tags":[],"wf_council_folders":[287,129],"class_list":["post-26267","council","type-council","status-publish","hentry","category-esrc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/council\/26267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/council"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/council"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/council\/26267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164913,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/council\/26267\/revisions\/164913"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/council\/26243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26267"},{"taxonomy":"wf_council_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_council_folders?post=26267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}