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

ESRC React Awards (pilot): outline

This scheme provides responsive funding for time-critical research to support UK policymakers or frontline practitioners in public services. Applicants must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for ESRC funding and have a confirmed public sector partner who will use the project outputs. Awards can last up to six months and must start within a month of funding confirmation.

£50,000–£100,000 ~6 months Deadline 2026-10-08

Data last verified 2026-08-14 · sources & verification

Eligibility

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

Institution type

Research Institute, University

Host country

GB

Organization type

University, Research Institute

Consortium

Required

Partners

≥ 1

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

Full eligibility text

Applicants must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for ESRC funding and have a confirmed partnership with at least one public sector organisation that can action outputs within six months.

Deadline

2026-10-08

Application form effort

2 form file(s) downloaded; 5 writing prompts; 30 fields/sections; moderate — substantial written sections

Application form preview sample questions, page & word limits from the application form 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 itemValue in this recordSource
Funding agency Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) www.ukri.org ↗
Country / funding source GB · UKRI same page as above — www.ukri.org ↗
Deadline 2026-10-08 — LLM-checked against the archived official page same page as above — www.ukri.org ↗
Funding amount £50,000–£100,000 same page as above — www.ukri.org ↗
Eligibility 5 structured dimensions — see the eligibility panel above same page as above — www.ukri.org ↗

Pages & application forms captured

Not captured / obstacles

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