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Funding Opportunities

We will publish funding calls and opportunities on this page

If you are seeking potential funding partners or supporting letters for your research please do get in touch via [email protected] and we would be keen to hear about your proposal and provide the relevant support.

 

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6 October 2024
Police STAR Fund 25/26 – EOI now open

Funded by policing, for policing. The Police STAR Fund 25/26 call is seeking to fund force and regional innovation and research across science, technology, analysis, and research.
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24 September 2024
A new funding opportunity: Policing Academic Centres of Excellence (P-ACEs)

The NPCC and UKRI are funding the creation of up to nine Policing Academic Centres of Excellence (P-ACEs) to help improve connections between policing and academic researchers…
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20 June 2024
Home Office Contracts for Innovation - Knife Detection Technologies - Phase 1

The Home Office is running a Contracts for Innovation competition to develop systems capable of automatically detecting knives concealed on a person, at a distance, to be used by police forces.
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4 March 2024
Transforming Data Collections Infrastructure for Social Science

Funding Opportunity: Transforming Data Collections Infrastructure for Social Science. Apply now to revolutionize social science research data. Themes: A) Scoping transformative infrastructure, B)…
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19 January 2024
Future data services: pilots to enhance data services for the future

Apply for ESRC funding to develop and pilot new data service delivery solutions to enable: federation of data services…
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18 December 2023
Manchester Prize: open for applications

A landmark prize, awarding £1 million every year to the boldest and most cutting-edge solutions that use AI for public good.
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13 December 2023
UK IC Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

These Fellowships are designed to promote unclassified basic research in areas of interest to the intelligence, security and defence communities. Apply Now … Deadline for applications 23 April 2024…
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24 October 2023
Testing For Impact - Open Grant Round

The Youth Endowment Fund exists to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence.
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2 October 2023
Early Career Researcher funding call opens for vulnerability and policing research

The ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre announced the opening of its second annual Early Career Researcher (ECR) Development Fund on the 6th of September.
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18 September 2023
Police STAR Fund 24/25 - Call information now available

We are pleased to announce that the call prospectus and accompanying FAQs for the Police Science Technology Analysis Research (STAR) Fund 24/25 is now available on our website. 
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15 August 2023
Responsible AI UK International Partnerships Grant - now open

The call is open to universities and businesses (see grant restrictions) with funding to support international collaboration projects, from £20,000 to £100,000, for up to 18 months.
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4 August 2023
Responsible AI UK Impact Accelerator Call - Intention to submit now open

The intention to submit for the Responsible AI UK Impact Accelerator Call is now open.
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25 July 2023
Funding Opportunity - Behavioural Science for Security and Defence Network Plus

Apply for funding to develop a Network Plus to enable new understanding of how individual and population level risks evolve and how security threats can be identified and mitigated.