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Welcome to the UKRI Engagement Hub.

Open Activities

  • MRC Board and Panel Associates Feedback Survey

    This Medical Research Council (MRC) survey for board and panel associates will take approximately 10 minutes to complete. Following on from the MRC Board and Panel Associates Induction session, We would like to learn more about your experience as a MRC board or panel associate so...

    Closes 31 October 2025

  • Application form for host sites for the Phase One of UKRI National Compute Resources (NCRs)

    Application for hosting entitites for the Phase One of UKRI National Compute Resources (NCRs) Background to NCRs The UK Compute Roadmap sets out the requirement for a compute ecosystem that is diverse, user-centred, coherent and serves the needs of the UK’s research and...

    Closes 31 October 2025

  • SAT/SETB recruitment 2025 for 2026 start

    This year, EPSRC is welcoming applicants for vacancies on EPSRC’s Science, Engineering and Technology Board (SETB) and on our Strategic Advisory Teams (SATs) for the following Themes: Resilience and Security Clean Energy Engineering Healthcare Information Communication...

    Closes 7 November 2025

  • UKRI Ageing Research Network Survey

    The UKRI Medical Research Council (MRC) invests public money in world-class biomedical research to improve human health. As applicants to, or recipients of funding through the UKRI Ageing Research Development Awards (ARDAs) we welcome your feedback to support our strategic decision making on...

    Closes 7 November 2025

  • Call for Applications: UK-US Global Research and Innovation Impact Showcase

    Has your UKRI-funded project enabled close collaboration with United States (US) based partners and achieved significant impact? We are inviting applications from UKRI-funded teams of UK- and US- based researchers and innovators, to participate in a two-day, in-person impact showcase...

    Closes 9 November 2025

  • EPSRC-Defra Reimagining Circularity Funding Opportunity Informational Webinar Registration Form

    If you are interested in applying for the EPSRC-Defra Reimagining Circularity Funding Opportunity, we invite you to join a webinar on 13 November 2025 at 2:00pm UK time. The webinar will last for an hour. It will begin with a presentation from the EPSRC Sustainable Manufacturing and Mobility...

    Closes 12 November 2025

  • BBSRC Aquaculture in Southeast Asia Kick-Off Workshop - Feedback

    Thank you for attending the BBSRC Aquaculture in Southeast Asia Kick-Off Workshop. Your opinion matters - we would love to hear from you! (Estimated time: 5 mins) UK Research and Innovation Privacy Notice All personal data provided to UKRI in connection with the...

    Closes 14 November 2025

  • Phase 2 National Compute Resource: Expression of Interest

    Expression of Interest for Phase 2 of the National Compute Resources (NCRs) Background to NCRs The UK Compute Roadmap sets out the requirement for a compute ecosystem that is diverse, user-centred, coherent and serves the needs of the UK’s research and...

    Closes 20 November 2025

  • FLF Renewal Panel Feedback Survey - Meeting 13

    This survey will ask for your experience during the FLF Renewal Scheme's recent Meeting 13 Online assessment period. We would appreciate any feedback you can give us to help us improve the experience for future panellists. The survey is split into sections to help guide your reflection on the...

    Closes 21 November 2025

Forthcoming Consultations

  • RACR Expression of Interest

    You must complete this survey to register your interest in submitting a funding application for MRC’s Regional Accounts for Clinical Researchers (RACR). The deadline for submitting this expression of interest is 20 November 2025. The survey will take 2 minutes and will ask you to...

    Opens 7 November 2025

  • Internal customer temperature check December 2025

    Each year the Internal Customer Experience team asks colleagues from the Domains how they feel broadly about the service they receive.

    Opens 24 November 2025

  • Doctoral Landscape Award Expression of Interest

    You must complete this survey to register your interest in submitting a funding application for MRC’s Doctoral Landscape Award (DLA). The deadline for submitting this expression of interest is 8 January 2026. The survey will take 2 minutes and will ask you to provide the following...

    Opens 5 December 2025

Closed Activities

We Asked, You Said, We Did

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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.