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The 2025 equal pay audit builds on the 2022 audit and is delivered in line with the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) methodology. The audit sits alongside the organisation’s annual gender pay gap reporting and forms part of UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) wider reward and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) strategies. Equal pay findings The 2025 equal pay audit shows there are no significant differences in pay for equal work across UKRI, as defined by the EHRC threshold of plus or minus 5%. When analysing the gap between…

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The report updates on progress against UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) strategy: transforming tomorrow together. The report, which has been laid before parliament, includes a performance report providing a summary of UKRI’s performance and finances. The highlights are quoted from the report are below: Delivery against the strategic objectives The report outlines what has been delivered against the six strategic objectives in the strategy, including the following. People and careers We invested over £500 million in new Doctoral Landscape awards to support around 4,700 studentships across the engineering and physical…

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More than 160 years after Mendel’s pea experiments, scientists have created a powerful genetic map that could revolutionise farming and food production. The breakthrough unlocks vital traits to help develop more sustainable, resilient and nutritious pea crops worldwide. In a major international collaboration, scientists have unlocked the genetic secrets of over 700 varieties of peas from around the world. This has created a powerful genomic resource that could supercharge the development of hardier, more sustainable crops. The work, published in Nature, is being hailed as a game-changer for food security…

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Half of UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) investment in research projects last year was made to organisations outside London and the south-east. This is the highest proportion of our funding ever provided to projects outside the greater south-east. It represents a cumulative additional £1.4 billion invested outside the greater south-east since 2021 to 2022. All regions and nations received an increase in UKRI investment between 2021 to 2022 and 2023 to 2024. The greatest absolute increases in investment were in the north-west, the West Midlands and the East Midlands. The…

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