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The chief executive of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has apologised to the research community over uncertainty around funding reforms and committed to consulting more with researchers.

The allocated £1.6 billion was agreed in the recent Spending Review settlement and is the UKRI’s single largest targeted investment area for the second half of the decade.

Major reforms to the United Kingdom’s national research funding agency are aimed at boosting the nation’s economy.

The UKRI strategic framework for 2031 lays out the steps the UK needs to take to drive forward innovation and academic research in artificial intelligence (AI).

If plans by the UK’s science funding body go ahead, we won’t be able to benefit from Britain’s membership of Cern and other large international projects, says Jon Butterworth, professor of physics at ...

The changes announced by a major UK science funder are putting scientists — and the future of research — in a difficult position.

The United Kingdom will increase the minimum stipend paid to PhD students from October 1, raising annual support to £21,805 ...

UKRI is the UK’s largest investor of taxpayers’ money into research and innovation (R&I), with an annual budget of more than £8Bn, rising to around £10Bn by 2030 thanks to a record settlement from ...

The government has renewed its campaign to hire a new UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) CEO, after it was paused due to the general election. The new CEO will be tasked with transforming UKRI into a ...

Letters: Physics research drives technological innovation, from medical imaging to data processing, write Dr Phil Bull and Prof Chris Clarkson; plus letters from Tim Gershon and Vincenzo Vagnoni, and ...

The UK government, through Innovate UK, is investing £3.6 million in a number of therapeutic extended reality (XR) projects. The immersive technology will provide mental health care services. The ...