Natural History Museum

Funded awards at Natural History Museum.

Funded awards
199
Published Funding
£42.9M
Average published award
£275K
Active funded awards
23

Amounts are published for 156 of 199 funded awards. Data as of 16 July 2026.

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The biggest topic here is Plants, Animals & Ecology — 61 grants (31%). The busiest year was 2022, with 17 grants.

Funded Awards by Year

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YearFunded awards
20063
20077
20085
200913
201010
20114
20127
20138
20145
201515
20169
201715
201812
20198
202014
202111
202217
202310
20249
202512

Grants

GLOBALSEAWEED PROTECT: conserve, improve, innovate, manage and empower for a resilient seaweed aquaculture industryNatural History MuseumUKRI£3.0M2025Active
Wheat Pan-GenomicsNatural History MuseumBBSRC£955K2018Completed
Enabling an economical genome-skimming pipeline for natural history specimen collectionsNatural History MuseumBBSRC£892K2024Completed
Building Habitable WorldsNatural History MuseumUKRI£800K2020Completed
A century of genome diversity in UK insect pollinatorsNatural History MuseumNERC£798K2025Active
21-EEID Cross-scale dynamics of LASV spillover within human-driven ecosystemsNatural History MuseumBBSRC£672K2023Active
Scientific and technological innovation from mineral geonomics - a dual source microfocus single-crystal diffractometer for UK geoscienceNatural History MuseumNERC£671K2022Completed
European participation in global biodiversity genomics endeavours aimed at identifying all biodiversity on EarthNatural History MuseumUKRI£670K2022Completed
Plastics and heavy metals in Nunatsiavut food ways and environmentsNatural History MuseumUKRI£605K2022Completed
Building Habitable WorldsNatural History MuseumUKRI£579K2024Active
Dissco UKNatural History MuseumAHRC£560K2025Active
KRILLGUARD: Safeguarding the future of the Southern OceanNatural History MuseumNERC£552K2024Active
Neurons of the exceptionally disparate and varied retinas of snakes: diversity, connectivity, and evolutionNatural History MuseumBBSRC£498K2025Active
Tsiino Hiiwiida: Unveiling multiple dimensions of plant and fungal biodiversity of the Upper Rio NegroNatural History MuseumUKRI£469K2025Active
UK DiSSCo PREPARE: the UK Distributed System of Scientific Collections Preparatory ProjectNatural History MuseumAHRC£440K2023Completed
The evolution of Chalk Sea ecosystems: biodiversity, resilience and ecological function in a warming worldNatural History MuseumNERC£388K2023Completed
Secondary Impact Craters as Absolute Stratigraphic MarkersNatural History MuseumSTFC£381K2024Active
Vectors to Accessible Critical Raw Material Resources in Sedimentary BasinsNatural History MuseumUKRI£241K2022Completed
STFC Natural HM 2023 DTPNatural History MuseumSTFC£209K2024Active
Lineage and ecomorphological diversification of burrowing snakesNatural History MuseumUKRI£206K2025Active

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