Call for proposals for Enabling Research in Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) invites proposals for projects to establish academic‑led research that addresses widely understood problems in relation to plastic packaging, whose solutions are unknown today, but which if solved will unlock existing barriers to fundamental systems change, and make an important contribution to achieving the objectives of the SSPP Challenge.

Innovation and Knowledge Centres: Follow-on Funding

EPSRC appoints Director of Research Computing

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has appointed Professor Mark Parsons as Director of Research Computing.

Circular Economy Centres - full proposals

A call for full proposals for up to five Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Centres is open. Applications will only be accepted from those who were successful at the outline stage and have been invited to submit a full proposal. Centres must conduct interdisciplinary research (from across the remit of UK Research & Innovation Councils) that accelerates understanding and solutions to enable circularity of a resource flow (materials, material systems, products and/or services), including consideration of (multi-) sector contexts.

Major funding boost for mathematical sciences

As part of a package of announcements today, the Government has announced additional funding for mathematical sciences.

Pathways to Impact: Impact core to the UK Research and Innovation application process

As part of a package of announcements today, UK Research and Innovation has announced changes to our requirements on ‘Pathways to Impact’.