Supporting Your Research
Funding
C2D3 Seed Funding Calls
C2D3 Early Career Researcher Seed Funding
- Up to £5,000 per project.
- Can support a variety of activities, including research, internships, industry collaboration, events, workshops, training with a focus on interdisciplinary collaboration.
- Call opens April, closes May. Watch this space for details of the next funding round
Accelerate Programme - C2D3 Funding Call
- Up to £25,000 for researchers pursuing innovative applications of AI, in research or real-world contexts.
- Can support a variety of activities, including research, events, workshops, teaching, software development, or software development, with a focus on interdisciplinary collaboration.
- Call opens June, closes September. Watch this space for details of the next funding round.
2025 funding round NOW OPEN!
This year applications are open under three categories:
- Early Career Seed Funding: Small grants of up to £5,000 for early career researchers (PhD students or postdocs) to provide a step towards an independent research career.
- Funding for events: Up to £15,000 to convene networks and events.
- Project grants: Funding of up to £25,000 for larger scale projects.
Previously awarded projects 2024
Previously awarded projects 2023
Large interdisciplinary research proposals
If you would like assistance in finding collaborators from across the C2D3 community, or in the writing of large, cross-departmental, interdisciplinary funding proposals. Please contact us at coordinator@c2d3.cam.ac.uk.
Sources of funding:
Enhanced funding is available to Departments and Faculties by application to support high-cost events and any activites involving external speakers or specialists.
The University has set up a fund to provide financial contributions to large, collaborative grant applications. This is to encourage and support these applications and maximise the University’s outward-facing impact. The fund will normally be available for applications of £5M+ in STEM disciplines and £2M+ in AHSS disciplines, and may award up to 10% of the total value of the application. All applications must include at least one external partner.
An online database of research funding opportunities and a source of international research policy and practice news.
The Royal Society provides a range of grant schemes to support the UK scientific community and foster collaboration between UK based and overseas scientists.
Additional support:
Managing your data
Research Data Management
The University of Cambridge Research Data Management team offers support for researchers in managing their research data and ensuring compliance with funder policies on open data. Visit the Research Data Management website for information on research data management, guidelines and advice on complying with open data mandates from funding bodies., as well as assistance with uploading your data into the University's open data repository.
The Statistics Clinic
The Statistics Clinic aims to offer free statistical consulting services to all university members. Once a fortnight during term, and monthly during vacations, statisticians are available to meet with researchers (graduate students and research staff), to provide advice on questions relating to uncertainty, hypothesis testing, data modelling and inference in a friendly environment.
Commercialisation
Part of the University of Cambridge, Cambridge Enterprise supports academics, researchers, staff and students in achieving knowledge transfer and research impact.
Cambridge Enterprise do this by helping innovators, experts and entrepreneurs use commercial avenues to develop their ideas and expertise for the benefit of society, the economy, themselves and the University.
Liaising with organisations both locally and globally, Cambridge Enterprise offers expert advice and support in commercialisation and social enterprise, including help with academic consultancy services; the protection, development and licensing of ideas; new company and social enterprise creation, and seed funding.