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Research England publishes provider-level allocations for 2020-21
Research England has published further details on funding for individual Higher Education Providers (HEPs) for 2020-21.
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Coronavirus updates
The latest guidance and information on the vital work of UKRI and our community in response to the crisis
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Questionnaire and guidance to boost universities' international partnerships
It is the first output of a project, led by ARMA and funded by UKRI, to assess how establishing national due diligence services can reduce burdens placed on both lead research organisations and the organisations they are partnering with.
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£2.2 billion Research England investment to support government's R&D ambitions
Research England has published overall budgets for higher education provider (HEP) research and knowledge exchange funding for the year 2020-21, with an uplift for HEIF and an increase in NPIF.
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National Centre for Universities and Business: Taskforce announced
On 3 July, David Sweeney, Executive Chair of Research England, UKRI wrote to Sam Laidlaw, Chair of the National Centre for Universities and Business (NCUB) requesting that NCUB bring together expert insights from their strategic network of NCUB members, together with appropriate other leading experts, to form a Taskforce to support UKRI including Research England with evidence and policy recommendations.
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Research England
Research England is a new council within UK Research and Innovation. We oversee UK Research and Innovation’s England-only functions in relation to university research and knowledge exchange. This includes providing grant funding to English universities for research and knowledge exchange activities; developing and implementing the Research Excellence Framework in partnership with the UK Higher Education funding bodies; overseeing the sustainability of the Higher Education research base in England; managing the £900 million UK Research Partnership Investment Fund; and administering the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF).
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18 August 2021
UKRI councils are moving to ukri.org
Starting this summer, and throughout 2021 into early 2022, the nine council websites are moving to the new integrated UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) site. The new site will integrate all the UKRI corporate websites to deliver an efficient, informative, inspiring user experience, providing a strong unified voice for UKRI and its nine councils.
06 August 2021
Funding agreed for a platform that will change research culture
Research England grants £650,000 to help build Octopus into a new global service for scholarly communication. Funding has been agreed to help develop a ground-breaking global service which could positively disrupt research culture for the better.
COVID-19
Following a recent request for HEIs to supply a principal point of contact (and alternative in case of absence) through whom requests for information and updates relating to research and knowledge exchange matters relevant to the COVID-19 outbreak can be addressed, Research England has begun making contact with HEIs informing them of updates and changes to funding programmes as a result of COVID-19, either directly or through established channels. If you have any queries not covered in these communications, please contact the relevant address below:
- Research Policy: researchpolicy@re.ukri.org
- Knowledge Exchange: KEPolicy@re.ukri.org
- RED fund: redevelopmentfund@re.ukri.org
- University Enterprise Zones uez@re.ukri.org
For all other funding queries please contact researchengland@re.ukri.org