Open Activities
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RICHeS Access Fund User: Focus Group Invitation
RICHeS – the UK’s Research Infrastructure for Conservation and Heritage Science - aims to host a focus group to help us understand how we can improve our application processes and documentation for the RICHeS Access Fund . This fund will help people working in the heritage sector gain access...
Closes today
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Delegate Feedback - Horizon Customer Empathy Foundation Workshops
Thank you for participating in the Customer Empathy Foundation workshops delivered by the Customer Experience team. This survey is to gather delegate feedback on their experience so that we can include these in our lessons learned review. All feedback is anonymous, you will not be able to be...
Closes today
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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 20 November 2025. The survey will take 2 minutes and will ask you to...
Closes 20 November 2025
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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
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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
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International Team Day, November 2025
We’re excited to invite you to the International Autumn Team Day, taking place in person at Polaris House on Friday, 28 November 2025. This event is designed for our UK-based International teams, but if any of our overseas colleagues happen to be in the UK at that time, we’d be delighted to...
Closes 21 November 2025
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NC3Rs 2025 survey to review regulatory ecotoxicology testing trends and application of 3Rs opportunities within Contract Research Organisations
Background and aims of the survey The UK National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs, www.nc3rs.org.uk has a large programme focused on advancing the application of the 3Rs in regulatory ecotoxicology testing, which is conducted with...
Closes 21 November 2025
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Short-term Working Abroad for Personal Reasons
UKRI is currently running a trial to facilitate short-term remote working abroad for compassionate reasons, which at present is limited to citizens of EU countries. We are keen to hear from staff—both those eligible and those not eligible for the trial—as your perspectives will help us to: ...
Closes 28 November 2025
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Innovation Funding Service - user feedback
Thank you very much for giving us feedback through this survey. Your feedback will help us improve the service and serve you better. Do be as clear and honest as possible. The information provided by you in this questionnaire will be used for research purposes. It will not be...
Closes 30 November 2025
Forthcoming Consultations
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International Team Day - November 2025 - Feedback Form
Thank you for attending the International Team Day. We’d love to hear your feedback to help us understand what worked well and what we can improve for future events. The survey should take around 3 minutes. Responses are confidential unless you choose to share your name, in which case we may...
Opens 27 November 2025
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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
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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...
Closed 14 November 2025
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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. More information about this Funding Opportunity can be viewed here: ...
Closed 12 November 2025
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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...
Closed 9 November 2025
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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...
Closed 7 November 2025
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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...
Closed 7 November 2025
We Asked, You Said, We Did
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We asked
In this exercise we asked for views on a series of topic guides that we are using to inform our communications with students. This follows changes to the UKRI Standard Terms and Conditions of Training Grant introduced on 1 October.
We provided guides in ten sections. We said we would welcome comments from people working in research organisations about whether the messages will support their own communications.
You said
We received 68 responses to the exercise.
91% of respondents said that, overall, the guides would be helpful or very helpful (excludes ‘not answered’).
While you said that the content was helpful or very helpful, you also provided many useful comments on the guides themselves. Respondents highlighted areas where we should consider how a student might interpret the guide, institutional variations and other factors. A number of comments felt the guides needed to be shorter.
General comments included:
“…these topic guides are really helpful and accessible. Lots of information and generally clearly set out.“
“Make all of it more concise”
“UKRI info needs to be read in conjunction with local institutional policies”
“I have supported PGRs for a number of years and I have seen that a significant number suffer with their mental health. Anything that we can do to support this and ensure they know they will be supported is important.”
We did
Today (5 November 2025), we published guidance for UKRI funded students.
In keeping with some of the feedback we received, the new web content on UKRI.org is short and concise. You can comment on the live content using the feedback link at the bottom of the webpage.
We are developing more communications for the near future which are informed by the comments submitted by respondents to this excercise. We will provide more information to grant holders before any further communications go live.
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.