UKRI is updating its grant assessment approach to speed up grant decisions, respond to generative AI and ensure we continue backing the best talent and ideas.

YouTube video by UK Research and Innovation

Tom Adeyoola confident research base can generate “companies of the future”, as funder revamps model

… UK research funding (and in defence of Sir Ian Chapman)

YouTube video by UK Research and Innovation

If we make it easier to build dense housing in cities, then the resulting supply boost will ease the cost burden on renters and put homeownership within closer reach for millions of households.

UKRI Chief Executive outlines changes to UKRI investment approach, addressing concerns about research funding and the financial position of STFC.

Apply to attend a four-day interactive sandpit to co-develop research projects that develop, validate, and critique novel scientometric indicators for use in research assessment and in future metascie...

A forecasting contest for 2026, featuring UK politics and global events.

I started my career in the think tank world. I was often asked a very basic question: what do think tanks actually do?

An £11.5 million AI-driven evidence synthesis project will turbocharge policymakers’ ability to quickly understand scientific evidence on important issues.

A ground-breaking UK-wide scientific study will help improve the lives of future generations by studying 30,000 children born in 2026.

Some thoughts on ESRC's role and ambitions

‘Distributed peer review’ of grants makes process more than twice as fast — and includes some cheat-prevention measures.

This essay is a personal history of the $60+ million I allocated to metascience starting in 2012 while working for the Arnold Foundation (now Arnold Ventures).

Given the important role innovation plays in productivity growth, policies to support R&D, technology and innovation are vital components of any effective economic strategy. This paper outlines five c...

The US President’s clampdown on foreign students could rescue British universities facing tighter restrictions on their own overseas recruits

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

Scientists hope to make a universal antivenom from the extraordinary blood of a man exposed to snake venom for decades.

“Bewildering” process for non-university researchers to access UKRI funding should be simplified, says Stian Westlake

And a plea to think seriously about climate change without getting distracted

Capital Formation in the Hard Asset Supercycle