2025/350, 2025/351, 2025/352 - Programme Grants for Applied Research - October 2025

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This PGfAR funding opportunity is a ring-fenced call for programmes of applied health research designed to respond to NIHR PGfAR brief - ‘Research inspired by under-represented disciplines and specialisms to drive transformational changes for patients and the public’. 

Through this ring fenced funding call, PGfAR is seeking to grow a portfolio of applied health and care research programmes with leadership/co-leadership from underrepresented disciplines, specialisms and/or methodologists: 

• Registered health and care professionals (HCPs), who are not doctors or dentists (i.e., proposals cannot solely be led by doctors or dentists but in alignment with the above, a co-lead arrangement is permitted given the scale and complexity of research programmes).
• Allied health professionals.
• Research methodologists specifically the following disciplines: medical statistics, health economics, clinical trial design, operational research, modelling, bioinformatics, qualitative research, mixed methods and epidemiology.

Applications can be proposed by all NHS bodies and other providers of NHS services in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, in collaboration with an appropriate academic partner or partners; OR consortia that include more than one NHS body or other provider of NHS, public health or social services. 

Webinar

NIHR will hold a webinar about this funding opportunity  on 30 June 2025 at 10:30 - 12:15. 

It is encouraged to attend to find out more about this ring fenced opportunity and DHSC’s areas of research interest 3: shaping and supporting the health and social care workforce of the future.

If you wish to attend the webinar please complete the registration form.

PGfAR funding opportunities 

PGfAR is participating in the following funding opportunities with separate applications on the awards management system. Applicants should read each one carefully before applying to the relevant one.

2025/350 PGfAR researcher-led-underrepresented disciplines and specialisms

This is PGfAR's main funding opportunity. Please see the PGfAR webpage for details about the overall programme remit and eligibility criteria. 

More information on this ring-fenced opportunity can be found in the research specification tab.

2025/351 PGfAR commissioned - NIHR NICE rolling funding opportunity

NIHR PGfAR is interested in receiving applications in remit of under-represented disciplines and specialisms funding opportunity that also seek to address recommendations in research identified in NICE guidance that has been published or updated in the last 5 years. 

In order to apply you will need to carefully review the NIHR NICE specification document.

Proposals received into this funding opportunity must be within the remit of the PGfAR programme, and this ring fenced funding opportunity.

2025/352 PGfAR commissioned - NIHR James Lind Alliance (JLA) rolling funding opportunity

NIHR PGfAR is interested in receiving applications in remit of under-represented disciplines and specialisms funding opportunity that also seek to address any of the James Lind Alliance (JLA) Priority Setting Partnerships (PSPs) research priorities.

In order to apply you will need to carefully review the NIHR JLA specification document. 

Proposals received into this funding opportunity must be within the remit of the Programme Grants for Applied Research (PGfAR) programme, and this ring fenced funding opportunity.

You can find out more about these funding opportunities on the NIHR website.