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AI, agentic AI, explainable AI, responsible AI, AI in healthcare
This README collects đź’° small and large grant schemes you (UK-based faculty) can realistically apply for, with direct links and notes on fit for your research areas (agentic AI, explainable AI, responsible AI for the Global South, AI applied to healthcare).
Grant with Nabin and Shrbona on AI and pedagogy in the Global South and UK
Grant with Amy O. at Cambridge and Hope M. and Vik.
EPSRC Multimodal AI grant Open Multimodal AI Benchmark OMAIB
Grant with M. and others
With Roly and Mads
FAIR (Fundamentals of AI Research) grant
Institutional grants
Schmidt HAVI
Institutional grants
Leverhulme Trust — Research Project Grants / Small Grants
NIHR — Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB)
Medical Research Foundation / other disease-specific charities (small fellowships)
University / Faculty internal funds & public engagement grants
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) — Future Leaders Fellowships and related schemes
EPSRC (part of UKRI) — research grants and programme grants
Royal Society — Fellowships and Grants
Wellcome Trust — Discovery Awards & Health-focused funding
National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) — AI in Health and Care Award
Medical Research Council (MRC)
European Research Council (ERC) — Starting / Consolidator / Advanced Grants
Horizon Europe — collaborative consortia & calls
Industry partnerships / Innovate UK
UKRI/Global Challenges Research Fund-linked calls (when active) and international development funders such as IDRC, Gates Foundation, and specific calls from Wellcome or Horizon focusing on low- and middle-income countries.
Philanthropic foundations & trusts (e.g., Gates Foundation, Robertson Foundation) — larger but highly competitive; often require partnerships and alignment with development goals.
SKILLS.md file for writing grants
đź’ˇ Use Claude to find grants
Do I have a 2 page idea
Read the guidance
What costs elgible
Why you?
Why here?
Peer review before submission
Research integrity
RRI
Referees identify before
Letter of support
Budget
Value for money
Justified? Give explanations and in line with
🤔 Start with small grants
Start with QR/internal funding
Small pots of money
Apply for co-PI first
KTP with industry
Directly Allocated (DA)
Directly Incurred (DI)
Indirect Costs
Estates
Ask Claude to find new grants for me in the UK (give it as input my CV, and papers, and my interests in AI + physics + math + puzzles + abstraction and reasoning corpus, etc. + SKILLS.md file) give me authentic links with deadlines in the next 6 months.
🤔 Use NotebookLM and Claude to peer review research grants by training with existing proposals critically (successful with peer review reports + unsuccessful with peer review reports)
Prompt:
find new grants for me in the UK (give it as input my CV, and papers, and my interests in AI + physics + math + puzzles + abstraction and reasoning corpus, etc. + SKILLS.md file) give me authentic links with deadlines in the next 6 months.