Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) · GB · UKRI

Pre-announcement: ESRC applicant-led: explore awards

Apply for funding to advance knowledge through ambitious, curiosity-driven social science. Explore awards support individuals or small teams to pursue bold, novel ideas within ESRC’s remit that advance knowledge. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for ESRC funding. ESRC

£300,000–£2,000,000 Deadline 2026-11-05

Official page ↗

Eligibility

Structured dimensions read from the official page. What do these mean? ↗

Host country

Organization type

University, Research Institute

Evidence: every dimension above is read from this scheme's official page — official page ↗.

Full eligibility text

See UKRI opportunity page for eligibility and institutional requirements.

Deadline

2026-11-05

Back to browse

Data sources & verification (for research-office review)

Where each item on this page was read from, so every claim can be verified against the original. Several values often come from the same official page — that page is named in the Source column. Anything we could not reach or parse is listed under Not captured / obstacles below.

Curated item	Value in this record	Source
Funding agency	Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)	www.ukri.org ↗
Country / funding source	GB · UKRI	same page as above — www.ukri.org ↗
Deadline	2026-11-05 — read from the official page	same page as above — www.ukri.org ↗
Funding amount	£300,000–£2,000,000	same page as above — www.ukri.org ↗
Eligibility	2 structured dimensions — see the eligibility panel above	same page as above — www.ukri.org ↗

Pages & application forms captured

Official opportunity page ↗

Not captured / obstacles

Official page text has not been archived for this record yet — treat field values as provisional.
No application-form file has been downloaded / analysed yet.

Data is collected from official funder pages only. Figures are machine-curated (rule + LLM where noted) and should be re-verified on the linked source before use.