Open Activities
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Contracts for Innovation Survey
Thank you for agreeing to participate in this survey, allowing us to better understand the impact of Contracts for Innovation, previously known as the Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI). The survey should take around 8 minutes to complete and your answers will be completely...
Closes today
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Feedback - UKRI Engineering Biology Missions Hubs and Mission Awards Science Showcase
Please provide feedback on the recent UKRI Engineering Biology Mission Hubs and Mission Awards Science Showcase event.
Closes 10 October 2025
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UKRI POC VIP Feedback Survey
Thank you for participating in the VIP team to deliver the UKRI Proof of Concept funding opportunity 2025. We appreciate the time and expertise you have provided often working at pace to deliver this funding opportunity. We want to learn from your experience of working within the VIP team....
Closes 11 October 2025
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BBSRC LUNZ PEB Meeting - Delegate Requirements
Please complete the following survey for the upcoming event/meeting.
Closes 14 October 2025
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UKRI Policy Fellowships 2025 Post Panel Feedback Survey
Thank you for participating in the Policy Fellowships panel. Your feedback is invaluable in helping us improve the scheme and the assessment process. We’d be grateful if you could take a few minutes to answer the following questions.
Closes 15 October 2025
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EPSRC ICT programme grant interview panel October 2025
EPSRC ICT programme grant interview panel: logistics
Closes 15 October 2025
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MRC South-West Regional Visit - Feedback Survey
Thank you for attending the South-West MRC Regional Visit. We would be very grateful for your feedback on the event. Please complete this short survey, which will take no longer than 5 minutes. As we continue to develop the Regional Visits programme, attendee feedback will be critical in shaping...
Closes 17 October 2025
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Conference on Research Outcomes in Environmental Sustainability (virtual)
Conference on Environmentally Sustainable Health and Care Research We would be delighted for you to attend the second Conference on research outputs in Environmental Sustainability jointly run by the Medical Research Council (MRC), National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR), and...
Closes 17 October 2025
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Robotics Technology Adoption Survey
We’re at a pivotal moment in the UK’s robotics journey. As part of our commitment to accelerating innovation, the recent Industrial Strategy announced £40 million in initial funding to launch a new network of Robotics Adoption Hubs across the country. These hubs aim to empower organisations across...
Closes 17 October 2025
Forthcoming Consultations
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Annual Monitoring Survey for 2018 CDTs - 2024/25
Annual Monitoring of EPSRC Training Grants The annual monitoring allows EPSRC/UKRI to understand how the training grants are used across all organisations. Je-S Student Details capture a broad range of studentship data, but it does not capture all of the information we need to evaluate...
Opens 13 October 2025
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Annual Monitoring Survey for DTPs 2024/25
Annual Monitoring of EPSRC Training Grants The annual monitoring allows EPSRC/UKRI to understand how the training grants are used across all organisations. Je-S Student Details capture a broad range of studentship data, but it does not capture all of the information we need to evaluate...
Opens 13 October 2025
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Annual Monitoring Survey for ICASE 2024/25
Annual Monitoring of EPSRC Training Grants The annual monitoring allows EPSRC/UKRI to understand how the training grants are used across all organisations. Je-S Student Details capture a broad range of studentship data, but it does not capture all of the information we need to evaluate...
Opens 13 October 2025
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Annual Monitoring Survey for Other Training Grants 2024/25
Annual Monitoring of EPSRC Training Grants The annual monitoring allows EPSRC/UKRI to understand how the training grants are used across all organisations. Je-S Student Details capture a broad range of studentship data, but it does not capture all of the information we need to evaluate...
Opens 13 October 2025
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Annual Monitoring Survey for 2023 UKRI AI CDTs - 2024/25
Annual Monitoring of EPSRC Training Grants The annual monitoring allows EPSRC/UKRI to understand how the training grants are used across all organisations. Je-S Student Details capture a broad range of studentship data, but it does not capture all of the information we need to evaluate...
Opens 13 October 2025
Closed Activities
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Membership to STFC Nuclear Physics Advisory Panel - Additional Call 2025
Thank you for your interest to join the STFC Nuclear Physics Advisory Panel (NPAP). Anyone who has applied before can apply this time. For the current recruitment round we are looking for a Panel Chair and Panel Members. Applicants are welcome to apply for both roles in this...
Closed 5 October 2025
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NERC Science Committee Chair recruitment EDI data collection survey 2025
Thank you for completing this short survey. The data is being collected to enable us to monitor the diversity of applicants to key NERC governance bodies. We need your help and co-operation to enable us to do this, however filling in this form is voluntary. All information will be held...
Closed 29 September 2025
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MRC pre-application funding panel member experience
This survey is to learn about your experience as a panel member for our funding opportunity: Supporting researchers to involve the public to develop MRC research funding applications.
Closed 29 September 2025
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ISPF Monitoring Site Reflections
UKRI International have developed the following survey for our colleagues who use the shared ISPF Monitoring Site. We would like to check-in on how the ISPF Monitoring Site is being used, how easy it is to populate and navigate, and identify areas for refinement and improvement. Your honest...
Closed 26 September 2025
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STFC Technical Skills Survey 2025
STFC are looking to build our understanding of the technical skills landscape in the UK. We would like to gather input from the STFC community on the technical skills that are present in the UK and which may be required in the future, as well as on any challenges in accessing those skills. We...
Closed 26 September 2025
We Asked, You Said, We Did
See what we've consulted on. See all outcomes
We asked
In September 2024 the Internal Customer Experience Team (Fanni Byrne & Stephen Lane) set up separate monthly engagement sessions with each Net Zero theme.
These sessions were set up so that the domain colleagues can build relationships with the Pre & Post Award Leads (within IUK Operations Becky Green & Adam Medley), learn about Operational updates and process changes, ask questions and share feedback on operational delivery.
These sessions were set up for a trial period and as our internal customers, we wanted to understand how the domain colleagues would like us to engage with the domain to ensure they receive the best service.
You said
The survey was shared with 80 recipients, targeting Innovation Leads, Impact & Performance Managers and Project and Programme Managers.
- We received 24 responses
- Out of those who completed the survey, 70% previously attended the sessions, this number is 21% of the overall domain
- 63% thought that having a regular drop-in session available was a good concept
- 87% would like to have a virtual forum for meeting your Pre & Post Award Operational Leads alongside your Customer Relationship Manager
- 46% voted to have 3 monthly drop in sessions and 29% voted for monthly sessions
- 54% voted to have one session for the whole of Net Zero domain in order to foster great collaboration and provide cross-domain insights across the 4 themes
Most colleagues described the sessions as helpful and a great initiative.
Collagues also claimed that having multiple people from various teams (even within Net Zero themes) offers different input/answers with different focus that can raise organizational awareness and good opportunity for building relationships with the right people.
We did
The Customer Experience Team reviewed the feedback with the Pre & Post Award Operational Leads.
Next steps
After reviewing the feedback, the Customer Experience team with your Pre & Post Award Operational Leads will schedule in the sessions for the overall domain every other month from September 2025 onwards.
Please look out for the meeting invites in your inboxes and share the information amongst your teams and themes within Net Zero!
We asked
In January 2024, we asked for feedback on the Medical Research Council’s (MRC's) draft public partnerships strategy. The strategy was drafted following a process of co-development and sets out MRC’s ambition and priorities for effective collaboration and genuine partnerships between the research community and wider society.
You said
We received 354 responses to the consultation. These responses came from a variety of individuals, groups, and organisations from the research community, the voluntary sector and wider society. The consultation responses were overwhelmingly positive. 87% agreed with the strategy overall, and 81% said that the strategy was written in clear language.
Respondents welcomed specific aspects of the strategy, including its inclusiveness, the focus on non-clinical research and the ambition to build long-term sustainable partnerships between the research community and wider society. Respondents highlighted specific initiatives which they considered vital to the success of the strategy such as, having a clear payment policy, appointing a new MRC programme director for public partnerships, and setting up a public advisory group at MRC.
Respondents recommended that MRC publish the new strategy in a variety of formats, alongside clear delivery (action) and evaluation plans.
We did
We used findings from the consultation to inform the final MRC public partnerships strategy. Key changes included:
- Clearly stating that this strategy is an initial three-year commitment to our long-term ambition
- Clarifying that the strategy has been co-developed
- Specifically mentioning the involvement of international researchers, public partners, and public involvement and engagement professionals
- Making clear that the consultation informed the final strategy
- Emphasising that this strategy is intended to be inclusive, and will be aligned with MRC’s Embedding Diversity in Research Design policy
- Acknowledging the importance of sharing power
- Making clear that we will implement our new payment policy for public partners, and that other rewards and recognition are additional to payment
- Emphasising that we will support public partners to take on leadership roles and responsibilities, such as chairing groups or co-leading projects
- Committing to publish our action and evaluation plans
The consultation findings have been summarised in an infographic and are detailed in full in our consultation report.
Next steps:
The final MRC public partnerships strategy will be published on the MRC website in summer 2024.
We asked
For opinions on the definition and scope of a categorisatino of UKRI funding as either 'Investigator-led' or 'Directed'.
You said
Only 8 responses were received, and there was no clear consensus on many questions. Most respondents were from universities.
We did
In the absence of opinion to the contrary we will continue to develop and apply the indicator to all UKRI funding. It will be applied as a binary indicator.