ACU 2025 Supporting Research Community Training Grants

Applications are now open for the ACU 2025 Supporting Research Community Training Grants. Formerly known as the Early Career Research Training Grants, the grants fund training that equips researchers with essential skills to enable them to succeed in their careers, whether they remain in academia, or utilise their skills in other professional fields.?

Universities can use their internal criteria of what defines an early career researcher (ECR), but this must include doctoral candidates, and the training must be made available to ECRs from multiple disciplines.

• Table of Content
• About The Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU)
• Supporting Research Community Training Grants
• Aim and Benefits of Supporting Research Community Training Grants
• Requirements for Supporting Research Community Training Grants Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

Supporting Research Community Training Grants

Aim and Benefits of Supporting Research Community Training Grants

Five grants of up to GBP 2,000 

Requirements for Supporting Research Community Training Grants Qualification

Early and/or mid-career researchers, including doctoral candidates. 

Application Deadline

How to Apply

• Be a staff member of a research office or any staff member who leads on providing training for early and mid-career researchers at an ACU member university.  
• Review the application guidance and FAQs. 
• Submit an application through the online application form.

• • If you already have a MyACU account, you can access the grant application form through this platform when applications open. 
  • If you do not already have a MyACU account, please ensure that you first register for an account here and then follow the instructions in the registration email to log in to the system before accessing the application form 

Priority will be given to those member universities that have not previously been awarded an Early Career Researcher Training Grant.

For more details, visit ACU Traning webpage