Economic and Social Research Council

Research council, England

Also known as ESRC

United Kingdom

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Given in 2025 £175.5m

Typical grant £208k Middle half £102k to £335k

New grantees in 2025 5% first grant from this funder

Giving by year

£198.4m 2017 260

£170.5m 2018 344

£253.9m 2019 423

£255.1m 2020 518

£160.6m 2021 423

£263.0m 2022 431

£192.3m 2023 392

£210.8m 2024 353

£175.5m 2025 357

£71.6m 2026 71

5% of 2025 grantees were new to this funder 87% of grantees are funded again within three years

Amount and number of grants we hold records for in each year, which can be less than everything the funder gave. The current year is incomplete.

Where it gives

London 1,666 grants · typical £172k

South East 1,167 grants · typical £161k

Scotland 813 grants · typical £164k

North West 631 grants · typical £156k

South West 616 grants · typical £150k

Yorkshire and The Humber 588 grants · typical £158k

East of England 518 grants · typical £158k

West Midlands 469 grants · typical £142k

All years we hold. Grants with no recorded place are left out.

Latest grants made

University of sheffield Uncovering the Business of Border Security £612k 30 Jun 2026

University college London Emerging forms of Agency and Epistemic Diversity in Digital Research Infrastructures £288k 1 Jun 2026

Nesta Financial structures for enabling innovator participation and success: experimental evidence from challenge prizes £137k 23 Apr 2026

University Of Edinburgh ADR Scotland: 2026-2031 (UoE led) £17.1m 1 Apr 2026

University of Glasgow Resisting Racial Capitalism in the City £56k 1 Apr 2026

University Of Edinburgh What does it mean to be adherent to asthma treatment? A mixed-methods, multi-perspective approach to conceptualising adherence in asthma. £283k 1 Apr 2026

University college London Rentierization of supported-housing: the geographies, drivers and implications of for-profit supported-housing investment in England £286k 1 Apr 2026

Queen's University Belfast ADRC NI 2026-31 Recommissioning £12.3m 1 Apr 2026

Swansea University Administrative Data Research Wales (ADRUK partner) £15.1m 1 Apr 2026

University of St Andrews SafePod Network £2.3m 31 Mar 2026

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