ESRC: Research to improve UK Economic Productivity

Deadline: 7 October 2021

As part of their strategic priority of transforming productivity in the UK, the ESRC are looking to fund between four and six projects that add to the portfolio of research funded by the Strategic Priorities Fund on Productivity.

To apply, you must be from a UK-based research organisation eligible for ESRC funding. Your project must be multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary or both. 

Proposals can also include:

• eligible international co-investigators
• co-investigators from UK business, policy or civil society
• public sector research establishments (PSREs).

Areas that the ESRC expert advisory group have identified as particularly under-researched are:

• diversity
• net-zero and the green economy
• financial markets.

This list is not exhaustive.

Your project’s total economic cost can be between £1 million and £2 million. The ESRC will fund 80% of the full economic cost.

Funding will last three years, starting in April 2022.

More information on this opportunity can be found on the UKRI's webpage.