Mathematics & Statistics

Developing the mathematics and statistics that underpin science, technology, and everyday decisions

#28 of 29 research categories by total funding · About £17 per person in the UK

Funded awards

5,070

Published funding

£1.2B

Average published award

£379K

Active funded awards

745

NIHR-supported projects

Amounts are published for 3,089 of 5,070 funded awards. Data as of 16 July 2026.

EPSRC funds the most Mathematics & Statistics research — 3,678 grants (73% of the topic). The busiest year was 2021, with 514 grants.

Top Funders by Funded Award Count

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Funder	Funded awards
EPSRC	3,678
ESRC	304
NERC	250
EC	203
UKRI	200
AHRC	141
MRC	69
InnovateUK	64
STFC	48
Wellcome	46

Funded Awards by Year

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Year	Funded awards
2006	277
2007	280
2008	215
2009	194
2010	181
2011	170
2012	141
2013	162
2014	119
2015	158
2016	243
2017	329
2018	308
2019	334
2020	408
2021	514
2022	326
2023	324
2024	254
2025	111

Grants


Statistical aspects of non-linear inverse problems	University of Cambridge	UKRI	£2.1M	2024	Active
Problems at the Applied Mathematics / Statistics Interface	University of Warwick	EPSRC	£680K	2008	Completed
Stochastic interacting systems: Limiting Behavior, Evaluation, Regularity and Applications	University of Edinburgh	UKRI	£100K	2025	Active
Prophet Inequalities for Mixtures	Queen Mary University of London	EPSRC	£63K	2025	Active
Geometric group theory	University of Cambridge	EPSRC	Not disclosed	2021	Completed
Academy for PhD Training in Statistics (APTS)	University of Warwick	EPSRC	£362K	2006	Completed
Warwick Symposium: Probability	University of Warwick	EPSRC	£207K	2011	Completed
The Mathematics of Medicine: A Public Discussion	Imperial College London	EPSRC	£16K	2011	Completed
Stochastic interacting systems: Limiting Behavior, Evaluation, Regularity and Applications	UK participants: London School of Economics and Political Science · University of Edinburgh	EC	Not disclosed	2025	Active
Invariable generation in finite groups with applications to algorithmic number theory	University of Birmingham	EPSRC	£205K	2021	Completed
Invariable generation in finite groups with applications to algorithmic number theory	University of Warwick	EPSRC	£163K	2022	Completed
An Investigation into Coupling a Stochastic Approximation with a Pseudo-Marginal Sampler	University College London	NERC	£8K	2022	Completed
Forecasting by Learning the Evolution-driving Function	Brunel University London	EPSRC	Not disclosed	2022	Completed
Solving nonlinear equations in arithmetic sets.	—	EPSRC	Not disclosed	2021	Completed
Statistical Applied Mathematics	University of Bath	EPSRC	Not disclosed	2022	Completed
Differential Model Inference with Missing Data	University of Bristol	EPSRC	Not disclosed	2021	Completed
A high quality toolbox of computational methods for statistical inference	University of Bristol	EPSRC	£122K	2007	Completed
Diophantine equations and local-global principles: into the wild (renewal)	King's College London	UKRI	£595K	2025	Active
Arithmetic of abelian varieties and automorphic forms	—	EPSRC	Not disclosed	2024	Active
Wasserstein distributional sensitivity to model uncertainty in dynamic context	—	EPSRC	Not disclosed	2021	Completed

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