National research and training hub: electromagnetic environment (Grant)

If you intend to apply as a lead applicant, your research organisation must complete the intent to submit survey by 11:59pm on 1 December 2026. You will not be permitted to apply to the funding opportunity if your research organisation has not completed the survey. We require this information in order to effectively plan the assessment process.

This opportunity is open to organisations with standard eligibility. Check if your organisation is eligible.

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) individual eligibility rules apply. For full details, visit UKRI’s eligibility page.

Who is eligible to apply

The following organisations are eligible to apply to this funding opportunity.

• higher education institutions

• research council institutes

• eligible independent research organisations and Catapult centres

• public sector research establishments (PSREs)

You must ensure the application includes an organisation with degree awarding powers within the consortium.

PSREs wishing to be involved in an application are required to choose whether they wish to do so either as a project lead or project co-lead, where they will provide the principal base (host) for students, or as a project partner. An organisation cannot perform both roles within one application.

Organisations can only apply as the lead organisation on one submitted application. However, organisations can be a collaborating organisation or project partner on any number of applications.

The lead organisation:

• will play a strategic leadership role in shaping the vision, skills priorities, and delivery model

• will lead submission of the application

• will act as the training grant holder if you are successful

• does not require doctoral research degree awarding powers, but an organisation with these powers must be present within your consortium

• must provide the principal base (host) for a minimum of one student per year of intake for this funding opportunity

Identification of the project lead should not be interpreted as recognition as the dominant partner or where the majority of studentships will be hosted.

While only one individual can be included as project lead on the UKRI Funding Service, UKRI welcomes applications that reflect flexible and joint leadership models.

Lead organisations may join with additional organisations which will also host students or support delivery of the training programme. You are encouraged to engage effectively with other organisations to ensure delivery of a truly interdisciplinary training environment and experience for students. Any organisations hosting students must be named as collaborating organisations on your application.

Project co-leads are welcome at either the lead organisation or collaborating organisations. Project leads and co-leads may include:

• research technical professionals

• innovation and commercialisation professionals

• research software engineers

• professional training and programme managers

• where they play an integral role in programme delivery.

Security Checks

All staff, students and their supervisors on both the research and training grants will be required to provide details to enable a Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). Where nationality allows, and if supportive of the research activity being pursued, students and staff will have the opportunity to seek higher levels of security clearance to support their wider collaboration with the Ministry of Defence (MOD). Security checks will be facilitated by MOD.

Declarations of conflicts

The host research organisation must put in place conflict management arrangements.  These should provide reasonable confidence that individuals are not engaged in activities that are incompatible with, or may reasonably be perceived to conflict with, their involvement in this hub. The arrangements must include the collection and management of declarations of conflicts of interest and conflicts of commitment, considering this is a UK national security and defence investment. The research organisation is to address and resolve any identified conflicts and must operate the arrangements through the life of the project.

Project partners

Organisations may also act as project partners on your application.

Unlike collaborating organisations or subcontractors who can receive funds from the grant, project partners make direct or indirect contributions to the grant and cannot receive funds from it.

More information is available on roles in funding applications.

Information regarding the nature of these collaborations must be included within your application in the Project partners section. Any organisation acting as a project partner may do so on any number of applications, as long as they are able to support them all if funded.

An organisation cannot on the same application act as a project partner and as a lead or collaboration organisation.

We welcome applications to include a wide range of project partner organisations contributing to research and skills training. This can include, but is not limited to:

• universities that are not leading or co-leading the proposal

• businesses of all scales

• public sector organisations, such as public sector research establishments and government at all levels, including devolved administrations

• third sector organisations

• other key stakeholders across the research and innovation landscape

We encourage applicants to consider opportunities to attract leverage from non-UKRI sources over the lifetime of the hub, as a way to strengthen its financial sustainability, ambition and real-world relevance. This may include approaches at the hub level or in support of individual projects, where appropriate. Applicants should describe how their hub will create the conditions for attracting such investment.

To meet the strategic objectives of this funding, it is expected that every £1 of UKRI investment is matched by a minimum of £1.25 of private sector leverage. The balance of funding takes into account all relevant contributions and the full economic costing of delivering doctoral training. There is no requirement for this balance to be achieved at the point of application, but applicants will need a clear plan to maximise leverage from existing and new collaborations over the award’s lifetime towards this aim.

Your application must demonstrate that there is significant added value from any project partners you choose to form part of your consortium. Examples include:

• financial commitments to partially, or fully, fund additional studentships

• hosting work experience, placements, venture building activities or similar

• co-supervision or mentoring

• training for students, programme staff, or both

• access to facilities, infrastructure, data, customers or markets

• delivery of training, including on entrepreneurship, venture creation or commercialisation

• commitment to cover the costs of access to facilities or training that cannot otherwise be provided

• strategic links to an important stakeholder or user

• supporting employees into doctoral study

There is no limit to the total number of organisations you may include within your application. However, each member of the consortium must make meaningful contributions to the delivery of either the research or training grants, as set out in your application.

All IP arising from activity funded through Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Ministry of Defence (MOD) will be owned by the research organisation(s) with a free licence granted to UK government to use the outputs of research in their normal business, including use by contractors of UK government and sharing with foreign governments for UK government purposes. When additional direct funding from other project partners has contributed to more than 50% of the value of a task/output IP conditions will be shared between government, the partner and the research organisation(s).

International researchers

The UKRI-RCN Money Follows Cooperation agreement does not apply to this funding opportunity. As such grants submitted to this funding opportunity cannot include a Norway-based project co-lead (international).

You should include all international collaborators (or UK partners not based at approved organisations) as project partners.

Resubmissions

We will not accept uninvited resubmissions of projects that have been submitted to UKRI or any other funder.

Find out more about UKRI’s resubmissions policy.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

We are committed to achieving equality of opportunity for all funding applicants. We encourage applications from a diverse range of researchers.

We support people to work in a way that suits their personal circumstances. This includes:

• career breaks

• support for people with caring responsibilities

• flexible working

• alternative working patterns

UKRI can offer disability and accessibility support for UKRI applicants and grant holders during the application and assessment process.

Demand management

Demand management is being applied to this funding opportunity. Further details are provided in the ‘Who can apply’ section

Scope

The Electromagnetic Environment (EME) underpins a wide range of technologies and capabilities that are critical to the UK’s security, resilience and prosperity. As reliance on spectrum-enabled systems continues to grow, the ability to understand, operate within and respond to increasingly complex and contested electromagnetic environments is becoming an important national research and innovation challenge. This challenge is fundamental to modern national security and defence.

However, a December 2025 review by the Defence Science Expert Committee (DSEC) of Radio Frequency (RF) Science and Engineering Skills identified a significant and growing shortage of expertise in RF engineering and electromagnetic science across the UK.

This opportunity will support a doctoral focal award (DFA) and associated research activities to strengthen the national pipeline of RF and EME specialists. It aims to advance fundamental and applied research across areas including sensing, communications, spectrum science and engineering, and technologies that enable effective operation covering the full electromagnetic spectrum, including RF, infrared, optical, and terahertz (THz) domains.

Through high-quality doctoral training and research activity, the award will build UK capability in this strategically important area, helping to ensure the UK can develop, integrate, and apply the technologies needed to operate effectively in increasingly complex spectrum environments.

Furthermore, the evolution of integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) relies on exploiting and understanding the electromagnetic environment, as sensing and communications increasingly share the same spectrum, infrastructure and waveforms. Emerging technologies such as reconfigurable intelligent surfaces further increase the complexity and dynamism of electromagnetic interactions, creating challenges around propagation, interference, coexistence, security and system resilience. The integration of capabilities from the EME Hub, Communications Hubs for Empowering Distributed clouD computing Applications and Research and partnering Future Connectivity Hubs provides a powerful route to addressing these challenges. This will enable trustworthy and resilient ISAC systems that can operate effectively in real-world environments.

Applications must address priorities raised in the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy and policy documents such as the Strategic Defence Review, as well as UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)’s mission to advance knowledge, improve lives and drive growth.

This funding opportunity will fund one hub, which will be awarded as two grants. These are:

• A 78-month research grant at up to £8 million FEC (we will fund 80% of the FEC)

• A 78-month training grant to support 30 doctoral students over three cohorts at up to £6.4 million FEC (we will fund 100% of the FEC)

Although the funding will be awarded through two grants, the hub should have a cohesive strategic vision, incorporating both the research and training.

Please note that this hub will be part-funded by Ministry of Defence (MOD) and therefore the successful applicant will need to abide by additional grant conditions that will be communicated at a later date.

Technical advice, guidance and governance (for the DFA and additional research funding) would be provided by Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) on behalf of the MOD, with experts from the national security community also expected to participate as a key stakeholder. It is expected that a highly collaborative approach would be taken to setting goals and outcomes. For example, Dstl could provide access to defence and national security-relevant research challenges, technical expertise, experimentation opportunities and facilities, to inform research direction towards areas of strategic importance and maximise the potential for operational impact. For suitably cleared students this could include placements working with Dstl (with associated living allowances and costs to be supported through the award).

Doctoral training grant

This opportunity will fund a DFA to train the next generation of researchers and innovators. Doctoral focal awards provide support for areas that require a concentration of studentships in combination with a highly tailored training programme.

We welcome applications from new collaborations, as well as applications that expand on existing doctoral training investments.

The expectations for the doctoral training provided by the award are:

• to support three student cohorts on four-year doctorates, bringing together a critical mass of academic and industrial supervisors of internationally recognised research excellence with a track record of doctoral supervision. We expect that at minimum 30 students should be supported over the lifetime of the DFA, and no individual cohort should consist of less than five students. Given leverage expectations in this opportunity, we expect many applications will support more than the minimum cohort size

• to develop a cohort approach to doctoral education including peer-to-peer learning, both within and across cohorts. This cohort approach to education should be provided throughout the lifetime of students’ doctorate training programmes. Students may also work as a cohort to address research challenges

• to nurture a diverse and inclusive research environment to support people in achieving world class research

• to provide opportunities for significant, challenging, and original research projects leading to the award of a doctoral-level degree in accordance with a university’s standard regulations. Universities are free to choose the type of research doctoral qualification that is offered to students, for example PhD or EngD. Centres may choose to offer all students the same type of qualification or a mixture, and to consider innovative approaches to delivering, awarding and assessing doctoral degrees. Students should also expect that doctoral projects are designed or planned in such a way that (barring exceptional circumstances) they are able to submit their thesis within their four-year funded period or part-time equivalent

• to deliver a formal, assessable programme of taught coursework, which should develop and enhance, for example, technical disciplinary and multidisciplinary knowledge, as well as broadening skills including, for example, project management, entrepreneurship and commercialisation

• to embed a culture of responsible research and innovation, environmental sustainability, equality, diversity and inclusion, trusted research approaches and support for student wellbeing to the highest standard. Successful applications will be required to develop detailed plans and processes demonstrating how these essential elements will be embedded in their centre

• to co-create and co-deliver awards with industry and other stakeholders in relevant sectors, alongside significant co-investment by those stakeholders. The level of cash and in-kind contributions and model of engagement should be appropriate to, for example, research and development intensity of the sector or size of the companies or other partners involved

• relatedly, to provide opportunities for students to engage with industrial and government stakeholders, for example in the form of joint supervision and industrial placements. This should extend beyond the co-creation of doctoral projects and include the support for co-working and mobility between academia, industry, government and internationally. The training should maximise the impact from this investment and grow capacity in this area for the benefit of the nation. When pursuing industrial placements, the management team will need to ensure students are given sufficient time to complete their doctoral studies

• as appropriate, to provide innovative approaches to doctoral study. This may include support for students who are based in non-academic organisations for the majority of their time, either receiving a stipend or by contributing to their salary. Where beneficial for the research area, student or project partner, we expect applicants to build on routes such as engineering doctorates and the innovative approaches in Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) centres for doctoral training, doctoral training partnership mobility pilots, or other recent UKRI training investments

• to create opportunities for supervisors and students to identify and align synergies between individual doctoral projects so that the sum of the activity is greater than its component parts

• to support mechanisms, where appropriate, by which students can reach out to the broader research community, user community and wider public

• to add value to the UK’s existing landscape by working with other large investments to develop an integrated network of research, innovation and skills capability

• to provide appropriate access to a wide range of equipment, facilities and e-infrastructure, for example, software and high-performance computing. Students should benefit from the environment and accessibility of infrastructure at the hosting institutions and partners. If appropriate to their research, students should also have access to large facilities and UKRI national research facilities

In addition to the DFA requirements outlined above, the successful DFA in this area will be expected to:

• support 30 doctoral students over three cohorts undertaking both fundamental and applied research across the EME, including electromagnetics, electronic warfare (EW), sensing, communications, and spectrum operations spanning RF, infrared, optical and THz domains

• deliver two national training schools per year, each providing intensive one-week courses free at point of use (attendance would be limited to NATO member countries and other nationalities at the discretion of Dstl)

• foster industry, defence, national security and regulatory engagement, ensuring doctoral graduates are career ready and able to contribute immediately to UK priority needs

• produce a cadre of future scientific leaders able to train subsequent generations

• work with the EPSRC Future Connectivity Hubs doctoral students training cohort (October 2027 start) and related Research Infrastructure such as JOINER

• create opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration and shared community learning in supporting the wider IS-8 strategy and priorities

Research expectations

In addition to the DFA, MOD funding will be delivered through EPSRC to provide the opportunity to develop this initiative into an interdisciplinary centre of excellence for EME research and innovation, creating a sustainable critical mass of expertise and research capability. The successful application would be expected to:

• support up to 50% of a dedicated research fellowship to provide the opportunity for a mid-career academic to establish an interdisciplinary research group. This should be focused on challenges within the EME, and should self-sustain (through research grants and partner funding) by the end of the award. Applications should propose to fund the fellowship on a part time basis or describe how it will be supported through complementary sources of funding

• support a programme of short (up to three months) and long (up to three years) term research projects staffed by PDRAs and supporting technicians, while also providing opportunities for DFA doctoral candidates to associate their work to research projects related to their topic areas

• adopt a challenge-led research model in partnership with Dstl, with research goals and technical direction informed by defence priorities

• publish research outputs through appropriate journals and conferences (subject to consent from EPSRC and Dstl)

• support additional outreach to government and UK industry, beyond the summer schools stated above, including a UK based annual symposium to act as a community focal point

• work with Dstl, where appropriate, to facilitate collaboration with trust international partners and programmes in support of UK defence priorities and trusted research principles

Research may span both fundamental and applied challenges, from underpinning electromagnetic science through to advanced EW, sensing, communications and spectrum operations capabilities. See Additional information for how to access the MOD EW Science and Technology roadmap for guidance on specific themes.

Illustrative research themes include electromagnetic information theory, programmable metasurfaces and wave-domain processing.

Structure of the hub

We are not being prescriptive with regards to the structure of the hub but suggest sensible aspects will include:

• a virtual or physical centre which is multi-institutional where appropriate but based around a ‘lead’ research organisation

• a hub director (academic) with a proven track record of managing large groups and excellence within EME and RFa training lead with a proven track record of delivering postgraduate training (they may also be named as project lead for the training grant during the award stage)

• a wider leadership team, representative across the different disciplines involved in the hub, from varying career stages

• a small coordinating management body (which includes a technical lead, a finance lead, a monitoring and evaluation lead, an equality, diversity and inclusion lead)

• postdoctoral research assistants (PDRAs) and students

• appropriate advisory and governance structures (see relevant section) including, as a minimum, an independent advisory board

Governance and compliance

Strong governance will be required to deliver these awards, with effective oversight of all training, capability‑building and exploratory activities. Applications must include independent oversight, including an advisory board, to provide scrutiny, assurance and strategic challenge. This should form part of an approach to enable continuous learning, evaluation and adaptation.

As this opportunity includes funding from the UKRI National Security and Defence Priority Programme a greater level of reporting (financial and progress) than standard UKRI awards is expected, which will be reflected in the additional terms and conditions.

Successful applicants will be expected to engage closely with MOD over the duration of the hub. The intention is that MOD will provide dedicated points of contact, access to technical and advisory expertise, and the adaption and usage of policy levers to support development, exploitation, and deployment of outcomes.

Awards must be delivered within UKRI’s terms and conditions for research funding and terms and conditions for training funding. Please pay particular attention to terms and conditions relating to intellectual property, subsidy control, and Trusted Research & Innovation (TR&I).

Awards must embed TR&I principles in due diligence, partnership working and decisions relating to funding or collaboration

Duration

The duration of this award is 78 months

Awards made via this opportunity will have a fixed start date of 1 April 2027.

Funding available

The FEC of your research grant can be up to £8 million. Your training grant can be up to £6.4 million.

EPSRC will fund 80% of the FEC of the research grant and 100% of the eligible costs of the training grant. Eligible costs vary between UKRI training grants, so please check the lists below for full details.

What we will fund: research grant

This includes all eligible costs at 80% FEC, except for doctoral studentships.

Resources may be used for research expenses including but not limited to:

• staff costs

• UKRI-funded research facilities. Please note that if you plan to use a major facility in your research, such as those funded centrally by EPSRC or a European facility, contact the facility before applying to EPSRC to check if your proposed research is feasible, and obtain a technical assessment

• travel and subsistence

• research technical support including research software engineers, data scientists, postdoctoral research assistants and fellow salaries

• roles recognised as a professional research investment and strategy manager (PRISM) positions that enable the research delivery and support the research environment

• training costs for staff

• other standard expenses

• smaller items of equipment, individually under £25,000, and consumables should be in the ‘Directly Incurred – Other Costs’ heading.

Resources may also be used for activities that initiate, grow, and maintain collaborations with stakeholders (for example academia, business, government, third sector) such as:

• secondments

• staff exchanges

• regular travel

What we will fund: training grant

All costs (including stipends and fees) requested in applications should be calculated at your chosen October 2026 rates with no addition made to consider inflation over the length of the funding period. This includes the appropriate fee rate for your institution(s) and any enhanced stipend rates above the UKRI minimum, described below. UKRI will include an allowance for fee and stipend indexation at the final funding stage.

We will fund studentship costs up to a maximum of the equivalent of 30 students. This could be, for example, 100% funding for 30 students or 50% funding for 60 students. Students will be funded up to a maximum of three cohorts.

Applications must specify the number of students that will be supported, as well as the number of expected cohorts. This should align to the proposed delivery model and costs per studentship proposed in the application. Justifications for costs, numbers of students, durations of studentships and numbers of cohorts will be examined carefully to ensure value for money.

UKRI funding for studentship costs includes the following.

Tuition fees

Fees charged to UKRI cannot be higher than the fee charged by the university for home funded students on similar programmes. Only students eligible for UK home fees will be able to receive studentships under this opportunity.

Stipends

The stipends must be at least at the minimum rates published by UKRI. We will not cover additional college fees. Applicants are encouraged to request funding for enhanced stipends, where justified, to attract UK home students in the context of the area of research and training and UK skills need.

Stipend support will also be covered for doctoral candidates based for the majority of their time in a company, or other non-academic organisation. Applicants proposing more innovative options such as contributions to salaries are encouraged to contact UKRI before submission, to discuss the best route to fund this. Applicants must ensure at all times that training grant funding is compliant with the Subsidy Control Act 2022.

Research training support grant (RTSG)

This covers items for individual students such as travel, consumables, and facility access where this is linked to conducting the research of the project, or specialised training such as a summer school only being attended by a student due to their project.

UKRI training grant condition 4.5 states that at least 50% of the total cost of any studentship must be drawn from UKRI. This condition will be waived for this opportunity. Award holders will therefore be allowed students where more than 50% of their studentship costs come from non-UKRI sources, if they are able to attract enough leverage to achieve this. These students will still be recorded on UKRI’s studentship data system.

As well as the studentship costs above, we will also fund other costs including:

• leadership and management costs

• costs to set up new focal awards

• the development of training which forms part of the cohort training package, for example, a course taken by a whole cohort or offered as a module as part of a student’s training package

• direct costs that are explicitly linked to training activities and student development

• additional support needed to facilitate diversity and mobility of career paths, and to accommodate doctoral students at different career stages or employed in relevant industrial sectors

• wider career development experience for students

• innovative routes for student recruitment and widening the participation of underrepresented groups in doctoral study

What we will not fund

UKRI will not fund the following costs:

• equipment over £25,000 in value (including VAT). Smaller items of equipment (individually under £25,000) can be included under RTSG or other costs, as appropriate

• costs associated with student supervision

Supporting skills and talent

We encourage you to follow the principles of the Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers and the Technician Commitment.

Trusted Research and Innovation (TR&I)

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has a long-standing and continuing commitment to supporting and enabling safe and effective collaboration in research and innovation. UKRI is equally committed to ensuring that this takes place with integrity and within strong ethical frameworks.

Our Principles and expectations set out the principles that UKRI applies to TR&I and our general expectations of the research organisations (including businesses, research institutes, and research technical organisations) that we support. Organisations supported by UKRI should be able to provide evidence that their internal controls and processes meet these expectations.

See further guidance and information about TR&I, including where applicants can find additional support.

Assessment process

We will assess your application using the following process.

In the event of this call being substantially oversubscribed as to be unmanageable, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) reserve the right to modify the assessment process.

Expression of Interest

If you intend to apply as a lead applicant, your research organisation must complete the intent to submit survey by 11:59pm on 1 December 2026. You will not be permitted to apply to the funding opportunity if your research organisation has not completed the survey.

Sift Panel

A panel of experts will assess applications and recommend which should proceed to the interview stage.

For more information on how we prioritise applications for funding please visit How we make decisions.

Interview

An interview panel will conduct interviews with applicants after which the panel will make a funding recommendation to EPSRC.

We expect interviews to be held in February 2027.

EPSRC will make the final funding decision.

Principles of assessment

We support the San Francisco declaration on research assessment and recognise the relationship between research assessment and research integrity.

Find out about the UKRI principles of assessment and decision making.

Using generative artificial intelligence (AI) in expert review

Generative AI may be used only for the purpose of language refinement during application assessment. When using generative AI to refine the language of a review, expert reviewers and panellists must ensure that:

• no part of the application being assessed is entered into a generative AI tool

• no personal information from the application is disclosed

• generative AI is not tasked with understanding, summarising or evaluating the application’s content

Expert reviewers and panellists must also:

• comply with relevant intellectual property and data protection legislation

• not take into account or speculate within their assessment whether generative AI has been used to develop the application

For more detail see our policy on the use of generative AI.

Sharing data with co-funders

We will need to share the application (including any personal information that it contains) with MOD so that they can participate in the award process.

For more information on how MOD uses personal information, visit MOD privacy notice – GOV.UK

We reserve the right to modify the assessment process as needed.

Assessment areas

The assessment areas we will use are:

• vision (research and training)

• approach (research and training)

• applicant and team capability to deliver (research)

• resources and cost (research)

• ethics and responsible research and innovation (research and training)

• positive culture and environment (training)

• capability to deliver (training)

• partnerships and governance (research and training)

• costs (training)

• data management and sharing (research and training)

Find details of assessment questions and criteria under the ‘Application questions’ heading in the ‘How to apply’ section.

Click here to start your application on the UKRI Funding Service https://funding-service.ukri.org/OPP1274/apply/1305

Background

Access the roadmap mentioned in ’What we are looking for’ , sign up for an account and then request access to ‘Science Roadmap: The Contested Electromagnetic Environment’.

Research and innovation impact

Impact can be defined as the long-term intended or unintended effect research and innovation has on society, economy and the environment; to individuals, organisations, and the wider global population.

Supporting documents

Equality impact assessment (PDF, 176KB)

Related content

• UKRI policies and standards

• EPSRC policies and standards

• Strategic defence review

• Industrial Strategy

Related opportunities

• Future Connectivity Hubs Evolution Programme: Invite only

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