Tag: UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

£50m research and innovation programme launched to make Britain’s streets safer for everyone

Stuart Mitchell

New research and innovation programme set as part of the Safer Streets Mission. Funding to go to projects to help reduce violence against women and girls, and knife crime. UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has launched five Safer Streets Challenges backed by £50 million of funding, as part of the government’s £500 million Research and Development Missions Accelerator Programme (R&D MAP). This will bring together researchers, innovators, communities, policing and frontline practitioners to tackle the crimes that affect people’s daily lives, using research and innovation to create solutions. The R&D…

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Tiny robots to treat cancer among innovative research projects

Stuart Mitchell

New cancer treatments and better ways to manage arthritis are new research projects in health and funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). Tiny robots, inspired by the movement of snails, could help deliver drugs more precisely to bowel cancer tumours. This could both treat the tumour more effectively and reduce the amount of chemotherapy drugs affecting otherwise healthy tissues. The research project, led by scientists in Manchester, is developing the ‘snailbots’ with help from an investment by UKRI. And it’s just one of around thirty projects, many of them…

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UKRI publishes gender pay gap report

Stuart Mitchell

The seventh annual gender pay gap report highlights the percentage difference between the average hourly earnings for males and females across the organisation. The gender pay gap is a measure across all jobs in UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), not of the difference in pay between males and females for doing the same job. This year’s gender pay gap report provides an important opportunity to reflect on where we are making progress and where further action is needed. In 2025, UKRI’s mean gender pay gap has reduced since 2024 and…

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International fellowships to explore AI’s impact on science

Stuart Mitchell

New £4 million programme funds early career researchers in the UK, US and Canada to investigate how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming science. The UK Metascience Unit is run jointly by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The unit has today announced details of a cohort of 29 early career researchers receiving funding through the AI Metascience Fellowship Programme. AI changing how we work and think One project at The University of Manchester will explore how AI is changing the way researchers work,…

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