Open Activities
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BBSRC Aquaculture in Southeast Asia Kick-Off Workshop
UKRI-BBSRC warmly invites you to take part in the Kick-Off Workshop for the Sustainable and Resilient Aquaculture Systems in Southeast Asia programme. The event will be held on 08/10/2025 in London, UK at the The Millennium Hotel London Knightsbridge. The workshop aims to bring together...
Closes 29 August 2025
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Ribo25: a celebration of 25 years of the ribosome at the LMB
On 21 st September 2000, Venki Ramakrishnan’s group published two back-to-back papers in Nature describing X-ray crystal structures of the bacterial 30S ribosomal subunit. These were landmarks in structural biology that led to a revolution in our understanding of the ribosome, the action of...
Closes 1 September 2025
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Cross Community Survey
The Cross-Community Commmitee would like to collect the opinions, experiences, and interests of the UK Nuclear Physics community on the topic of cross-community support. This is an anonymous and purely informative excercise, and does not replace or affect the formal ways in which support is applied...
Closes 3 September 2025
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RAL & Boulby 2025 Annual Apprentice Award Nominations
At STFC, we are keen to recognise and celebrate the achievements of our Apprentices working across the breadth of operations at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Boulby. We are therefore seeking nominations for the following categories: Apprentice of the Year 2025 Outreach...
Closes 5 September 2025
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RAL & Boulby Apprentice Peer Support Award 2025
At STFC we are keen to recognise and celebrate the achievements of our Apprentices working across the breadth of Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Boulby. There are a number of award categories that Apprentices can be nominated for by Managers across the organisation, including Apprentice of...
Closes 5 September 2025
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DL & UK ATC Apprentice Peer Support Award 2025
At STFC we are keen to recognise and celebrate the achievements of our Apprentices working across the breadth of Daresbury Laboratory and UK ATC. There are a number of award categories that Apprentices can be nominated for by Managers across the organisation, including Apprentice of the Year...
Closes 5 September 2025
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DL & UK ATC 2025 Annual Apprentice Award Nominations
At STFC, we are keen to recognise and celebrate the achievements of our Apprentices working across the breadth of operations at Daresbury Laboratory and UK ATC. We are therefore seeking nominations for the following categories: Apprentice of the Year 2025 Outreach Award ...
Closes 5 September 2025
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Responsible Procurement Event
As part of a growing sector-wide commitment to sustainability, this event will explore how Further and Higher Education (FHE) institutions are embedding responsible procurement practices—particularly in relation to Scope 3 emissions from purchased goods and services. Organised by members of the...
Closes 5 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.
Closes 9 September 2025
Closed Activities
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ESRC Assessor College: Advisor Recruitment 2025
We are inviting applications from academics and other advisors to join a new ESRC college which we will use to find members for our assessment panels. The college will consist of academic members drawn from across the social sciences, representing the broad range of expertise, skills,...
Closed 26 August 2025
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ESRC Assessor College: Academic Recruitment 2025
We are inviting applications from academics and other advisors to join a new ESRC college which we will use to find members for our assessment panels. The college will consist of academic members drawn from across the social sciences, representing the broad range of expertise, skills,...
Closed 26 August 2025
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GAE FTRI assurance monitoring form JAN - JUN 2025
You must complete this form to assure UKRI of your organisation’s ongoing role and responsibilities as set out in the signed scheme agreement for the UKRI Future Technology Research and Innovation (FTRI) Government Authorised Exchange (GAE) visa scheme . You must complete this...
Closed 22 August 2025
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2025 STFC Cross-cluster Proof of Concept: SparQ Quantum Computing Call
The NQCC, in collaboration with the STFC’s Campus and Cluster team, is pleased to announce the launch of the 2025 call for proof of concept projects in quantum computing. This initiative, funded through the NQCC’s SparQ programme , aims to facilitate the exploration of practical applications for...
Closed 14 August 2025
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BBSRC PAT SAP Researcher Subgroup Member Application
BBSRC PAT SAP Researcher Subgroup Member Application Thank you for your interest in applying to join BBSRC's People and Talent Strategy Advisory Panel Researcher Subgroup. Please refer to the opportunity page for information about the Subgroup, the group’s strategic remit...
Closed 7 August 2025
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.