The SRF received a total of 82 applications for the 2010/11 round. Twenty eight of the applications were funded.
List of successful applicants for the 2010/11 SRF round
| Uraiporn Pimsai (Thailand) | An illustrated taxonomic key to the murid rodents of the Thai-Malaysian Peninsula | |
| Richard Waterman (United Kingdom) | Completing a species-level molecular phylogeny for the sub-tribe Coryciinae (Orchidaceae) | |
| Francesca Leasi (United Kingdom) | Phylogeography, taxonomy and systematics of key Platyzoa: Seisonidea(Rotifera) | |
| Megan Wyman (United Kingdom) | Exploring the anatomical basis for vocal biodiversity in Eurasian deer | |
| Christian Boedeker (New Zealand) | From Lake Baikal to Gondwana | |
| Emiliano Peralta-Medina (United Kingdom) | A Cretaceous fossil forest from Snow Island, South Shetland, Antarctica | |
| Joshua Ludtke (Canada) | Utilizing internal cranial anatomy to elucidate oreodont evolutionary relationships | |
| David Penney (United Kingdom) | Description of New Fossil Arthropod Species in Miocene Dominican Amber (Araneae, Orthoptera, Hymenoptera, Hemiptera) | |
| Michael R. Wilson (United Kingdom) | Taxonomic Studies of the Leafhoppers (Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae) of the UAE | |
| Claire R. Peart (United Kingdom) | Exploring newly discovered diversity within an endemic radiation from Lake Tanganyika, Africa | |
| Elena Kupriyanova (Australia) | A taxonomic revision of a mysterious deep-sea serpulid genus Nogrobs | |
| David Redding (United Kingdom) | Using Barcodes to Set Conservation Priorities | |
| Caitríona McInerney (United Kingdom) | Phylogeography of the groundwater amphipod Niphargus kochianus group (Amphipoda, Crustacea) | |
| Steven Worthington (United States of America) | Early Human Origins: A View from the Miocene | |
| Henry Disney (United Kingdom) | Studies of the World’s Scuttle Flies (Diptera, Phoridae) | |
| Felix G. Marx (New Zealand) | Evolutionary relationships and the taxonomic and morphological diversity of baleen whales | |
| Morgan Churchill (United States of America) | Systematics of the Otariidae (Pinnipedia: Mammalia) | |
| Luigi Cibrario (United Kingdom) | BAR domain proteins: new pieces in the puzzle of eukaryotic cell evolution | |
| Timothy Gallaher (United States of America) | Exploring the Complex Evolutionary History of the Ocean Dispersed Pandanus | |
| Angela J. Rein (United States of America) | Non-Twining Vines: Evolution and Systematics of Matelea subgenus Chthamalia (Gonolobinae, Apocynaceae) | |
| Elena Ortiz (United States of America) | Molecular Systematics of the Butterfly Tribe Preponini (Nymphalidae: Charaxinae) | |
| Inga Meyer-Wachsmuth (Sweden) | Evolution and species in the nemertodermatid family Ascopariidae | |
| Siobhan Cox (United Kingdom) | Testing species validity in Zosterops (Aves: Zosteropidae) using DNA from museum skins | |
| James E. McDonald (United Kingdom) | Systematics of the anaerobic fungi (Neocallimastigales): life beyond the herbivore gut? | |
| Sarah A. Orlofske (United States of America) | Dispersal barriers and phylogeographic patterns of the Pacific Chorus Frogs (Hylidae: Pseudacris regilla) | |
| Kristen Lehman (United States of America) | Biogeography and Inflorescence Evolution in the genus Varronia(Boraginaceae) | |
| Heather Whitney (United Kingdom) | Occurrence of Iridescence in Neotropical Selaginella | |
| Alistair Seddon (United Kingdom) | Diatom biodiversity in the Galápagos Islands. Do endemics exist? |