Tag: UKRI

UKRI publishes 2021 gender pay gap report

Stuart Mitchell

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has published its 2021 gender pay gap report. This is the third annual report, which highlights the percentage difference between average hourly earnings for men and women across the organisation. Data shows that the mean gender pay gap across UKRI has slightly decreased by 0.1 percentage points: 10.3% in 2020 10.2% in 2021. The median pay gap, which had reduced 3% between 2019 and 2020, increased by 1.6 percentage points over the last year: 10.7% in 2020 12.3% in 2021. The report also disaggregates the…

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Major project to boost flexible plastic packaging recycling launches

Stuart Mitchell

FlexCollect, the UK’s largest collaborative project to support the collection and recycling of flexible plastic packaging, has launched with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) support. The multi-million-pound project was announced on 19 May 2022, will pilot household collections of flexible plastic packaging waste, to significantly increase recovery and recycling rates. The project is co-funded by: the Flexible Plastic Fund UKRI’s Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Challenge (SSPP), which is providing £700,000 Defra. In addition, further in-kind support is being provided from industry stakeholders including: Ecosurety, RECOUP, SUEZ Recycling & Recovery UK…

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UKRI launches Rethinking Public Dialogue fund

Stuart Mitchell

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has partnered with the Royal Society for Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce (RSA) to launch a Rethinking Public Dialogue fund. UKRI is committed to listening to and acting on diverse views to shape research and innovation priorities, through processes like public dialogue. Public dialogue brings a wide range of insights, expertise and perspectives to bear on decisions, making research and innovation outcomes more relevant to people, more impactful and more trusted. Producing evidence through experimentation In recent years we’ve seen a wave of innovative approaches, such…

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UKRI Backs New Circular Economy Model, ‘Re’, With £3 Million Of Funding, After ‘Highly Successful’ Trial

Stuart Mitchell

‘Re’, the ground-breaking reuse model and circular economy initiative, developed by Beauty Kitchen, has announced that UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging (SSPP) Challenge is granting £3 million in funding specifically for the wider development and roll out of ‘Re’ across the UK. ‘Re’ will become the new spearhead of the national effort to fulfil the UK’s Plastics Pact which seeks to alter the UK’s relationship with, and management of, plastic packaging. So far, the ‘highly successful’ trial of the reuse model has saved over 4 million…

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Social sciences to play vital role in meeting UK’s net zero goals

Stuart Mitchell

The UK’s journey to net zero by 2050 is set to be bolstered by the social sciences, thanks to a major new investment from ESRC. The investment, in an environmental leadership team, worth £6.25 million, will ensure the UK’s world-leading social science expertise plays a central role in interdisciplinary environmental science research. Institutional, community and individual behavioural change will be fundamental to securing net zero by 2050. The team’s expertise will hasten our understanding of how to develop solutions that will help us reach net zero as well as other…

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