Open Activities
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EPSRC- Engineering ECF meeting - 11th November 2025, Queen’s University Belfast
This survey is about requirements for the Engineering ECF Meeting on 11th November 2025 at Queen’s University Belfast. EPSRC complies with the General Data Protection Regulations 2016/679 (EU) GDPR). We process and handle personal information according to these regulations. The personal...
Closes 21 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...
Closes 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...
Closes 26 September 2025
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ESRC DTP Student Survey 2025
This survey is for ESRC-funded students in Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTPs) only. Please do not complete if you are not funded by ESRC or have not been funded through a DTP. ESRC recognise that the student voice is an important factor in monitoring our doctoral training...
Closes 26 September 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...
Closes 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.
Closes 29 September 2025
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ESRC Peer Review College - Self Nomination
Expert review plays a vital role in ensuring that the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) supports the highest quality research across our portfolio remit. It provides a fundamental contribution to our application assessment process; the expert knowledge provided through this process...
Closes 30 September 2025
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Rapid Evidence Reviews for the UKRI Research Programme on Gambling
Following the introduction of the new statutory levy on gambling operators, UKRI is establishing a bespoke Research Programme on Gambling (RPG), funded under the research strand of the levy. As a part of this, UKRI is commissioning a series of Rapid Evidence Reviews (RERs) to help identify evidence...
Closes 2 October 2025
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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...
Closes 5 October 2025
Forthcoming Consultations
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25RM2 Feedback - Chairs and Panel Members
25RM2 Feedback
Opens 22 September 2025
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25RM2 Feedback - Applicants
25RM2 Feedback
Opens 22 September 2025
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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 27 November 2025. The survey will take 2 minutes and will ask you to...
Opens 7 November 2025
Closed Activities
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EPSRC Health Technologies Connectivity Awards: Round 2
This is a mandatory intention to submit form for Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funding opportunity Health Technologies Connectivity Awards: Round 2.
Closed 18 September 2025
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RICHeS Pre-REF Workshop survey
This survey aims to gather valuable insights from key stakeholders, including RICHeS awardees, on the Research Excellence Framework (REF). The RICHeS REF workshop is designed to provide an overview of the REF and offer insights on how to utilise RICHeS and other research experiences more generally...
Closed 17 September 2025
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Doctoral focal award : nuclear skills intent to submit
An 'intent to submit' must be completed in advance of the submission of a funding opportunity application to the Doctoral focal award: nuclear skills. The 'intent to submit' is required to enable UKRI, MOD and DESNZ to prepare for the assessment process. A Doctoral focal...
Closed 12 September 2025
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Electronics, Photonics and Quantum Taxonomy Family survey
The purpose of this survey is to collect information regarding your skills and experiene within the Electronics, Photonics and Quantum area.
Closed 12 September 2025
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UKRI student communications
UKRI's support for research students is changing. We welcome views on what messages we should be conveying to UKRI funded students about the support available to them.
Closed 9 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.