Funding Opportunities

The Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research (HIMR) offers a number of funding activities available to UK mathematicians. These opportunities include a number that are funded through the UKRI/EPSRC ‘Additional Funding Programme for Mathematical Sciences‘.  Funding for Mathematicians currently includes:

Small Grants Scheme: HIMR offers small grants for projects supportive of UK mathematical research.  We expect many grants to be at the level of £5K or less, but we will accept applications up to £10K, or occasionally greater when a strong case is made.  The funding can be used to support activity involving mathematical research taking place in the UK.  Full proposals can be submitted at any time and will be considered on a rolling basis.  More information here.

Focused Research Grants: HIMR offers a number of grants of up to £8K to fund focused research groups to work on adventurous and challenging mathematical problems, or to discuss important new developments in mathematics.  These grants will support travel and local expenses for groups to come together to focus intensively on a problem or to discuss a significant new development in mathematics. We expect these groups to be normally 8 or fewer people. We will consider workshop proposals once a year, usually in November.  More information here. 

International Visitors Scheme: HIMR offers up to a maximum of £10k for International Visitors (for 3 weeks accommodation and subsistence, plus international and local travel, an honorarium of up to £2.5k for a 3-week visit, plus up to £1k caring costs). The funding is designed to provide the opportunity to invite international academics from a wide range of fields of mathematics: research areas of interest include, but are not restricted to, Algebra, Algebraic Geometry, Combinatorics, Data Science, Number Theory, Probability, and Quantum Information. We will fund visits from an international visitor hosted at the applicant’s home University with the purpose of raising the profile and enriching the research environment for the department. More information here.

Contact: Please contact Heilbronn Manager at heilbronn-manager@bristol.ac.uk if you have questions about the above schemes/grants.

If your proposal falls outside the above funding schemes, please email your proposal to the Chair at pa-chair-himr@bristol.ac.uk