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Research funding

November 2023

  • science, innovation and technology secretary, Michelle Donelan

    UK research funding body in row with ministers over free speech and Gaza

    Science minister Michelle Donelan requests UKRI cuts links with two members of panel she accuses of promoting extremist views

September 2023

  • Woman in white coat in lab

    UK’s years out of EU Horizon programme did ‘untold damage’, say scientists

  • A scientist holding a laptop examining plants in a greenhouse

    What does rejoining EU’s Horizon scheme mean for UK research and innovation?

  • Simon Jenkins

    Britain can recover from the self-harm of Brexit. Today’s return to the EU’s Horizon project shows how

    Simon Jenkins
  • Before Brexit the UK was one of the top beneficiaries of Horizon

    Sunak hails ‘right deal for country’ as UK rejoins EU Horizon project

July 2023

  • scientist looking into microscope

    British scientists can request grants if UK rejoins EU’s £85bn Horizon scheme

    ‘Expected’ return could help retain scientists and researchers lost after grants were cancelled in Brexit row
  • Lettuces being planted

    How important is Horizon science project for UK – and could it rejoin?

    Brexit spat excluded Britain from £85bn European programme – at huge detriment to vital research, argue scientists
  • The government’s plan B involved separate science funds for the UK but science leaders have said membership of Horizon is imperative.

    UK edges closer to rejoining EU’s £85bn Horizon science programme

    Talks on returning as an associate member after Brexit row are close to agreement, say diplomatic sources

May 2023

  • King's College London, Strand campus

    King’s College London cuts ties with opioids-linked Sackler family

  • An Elsevier facility in Missouri

    ‘Too greedy’: mass walkout at global science journal over ‘unethical’ fees

April 2023

  • CSIRO opens lab

    Australia aimed for, and got, more Stem graduates. So where are the jobs for them?

    Jessica Rozen
  • Seasonal weather, Dunsden, Oxfordshire, UK - 15 Aug 2022<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Geoffrey Swaine/REX/Shutterstock (13094464ao) A bee collects pollen from the buddleia flowers. Seasonal weather, Dunsden, Oxfordshire, UK - 15 Aug 2022

    British science will not flourish outside EU’s Horizon scheme, academics warn

March 2023

  • Larry Elliott

    Economics viewpoint
    Want to properly plug the UK’s north-south divide? Look to Germany

    Larry Elliott
    Boosting spending power, increasing public funding for science and tech skills, R&D and infrastructure could work

February 2023

  • Michelle Donelan, secretary of state for Science, Innovation and Technology

    UK ready to snub key EU science research scheme if Brexit row not resolved

  • Devi Sridhar

    After Brexit, if Sunak really wants a ‘science superpower’, he must fix these three things

    Devi Sridhar
  • Cardiff University

    Welsh universities face 1,000 jobs being lost as EU research funding ends

  • Cambridge University

    Brexit causes collapse in European research funding for Oxbridge

January 2023

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Ignore the ‘superpower’ boasts – UK pharma looks superchallenged

    Nils Pratley
    NHS crisis, withdrawal of tax credits and exit from EU blamed for fall in UK share of R&D market

October 2022

  • Professor Sir Andre Geim fears exclusion from Horizon Europe will have a devastating impact.

    ‘Things will only get worse’: fears top scientists may shun UK over Brexit

    British-based Nobel prize winner says hopes for securing an alliance with the crucial Horizon Europe collaboration are fading fast

September 2022

  • China’s President Xi Jinping, centre, tours Imperial College London with Prince Andrew and former chancellor George Osbourne on a state visit in 2015.

    Imperial College to shut joint research ventures with Chinese defence firms

    Exclusive: two Chinese-sponsored aerospace research centres to close after warnings of ‘sleepwalking’ into aiding Chinese military
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