Our remit covers engineering and the physical sciences: research in the areas of chemistry, engineering, information and communications technologies, materials, mathematical sciences and physics. We do not have any restrictions on application areas but the majority of the research we support must be in engineering and the physical sciences.
Responsive Mode Panels
To give you an idea of what we cover, research areas for our responsive mode panels include:
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Research areas include: |
Grants on the web |
| Information and communications technology |
Communications, computer science, user interface design, image and vision computing, human computer interaction, semiconductors, photonic and electronic materials and devices |
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| Materials, mechanical and medical engineering |
Acoustics, aerodynamics, control and systems engineering, sensors and instrumentation, robotics, soft and hard manufacturing, design engineering, mechanical engineering, medical engineering, biomaterials and tissue engineering, materials processing, and synthetic biology |
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| Mathematical sciences |
Pure mathematics, applied mathematics, mathematical statistics and applied probability, mathematical physics, and the mathematical aspects of operational research |
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Physical sciences (three parallel panels):
• Chemistry
• Materials
• Physics |
Chemistry - organic and inorganic synthesis, physical, analytical and biological chemistry
Materials – synthesis and characterisation of materials and materials modelling at the atomic scale
Physics – atomic, molecular, optical and plasma physics, condensed matter physics, lasers, optics and surface science
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| Process, environment and sustainability |
Process engineering, built environment and civil engineering, sustainable development, water supplies, waste and coastal engineering, transport management, energy impact and adaptation to climate change, energy generation and distribution and electrical engineering, and combustion |
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Programmes
Our programmes are Cross-disciplinary interfaces, ICT, Materials, mechanical and medical engineering, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences, Process, environment and sustainability, Public engagement, Infrastructure and international, Digital economy, Energy, Nanoapplications, Healthcare, and Better exploitation.
Grants on the Web
You can search our portfolio of funded grants to see if we have funded any other projects in a similar research area.
Funding across Research Councils
The research councils have a funding agreement for considering proposals at the boundaries of our remits. In addition, we can provide up to 50% funding for medical-, biological- and environmental-related research proposals.
Not Sure Whether to Apply to EPSRC?
If you're not sure whether you should apply to EPSRC or to a different research council for funding, have a look at our remit and funded grant portfolio to get an idea of the research areas we cover. If you’re still not sure, please contact us.
We appreciate that it is often difficult to know where to submit a proposal for research at the interface between two or more research councils. Before you commit yourself to working up a full proposal that might cross research council remits, we would encourage you to make contact with us.
Our Cross-Disciplinary Interfaces Programme has a remit query process in place to help academics whose research spans two or more of the research councils’ remits.
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