UK Research and Innovation


UK Research and Innovation is a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation of the United Kingdom that directs research and innovation funding, funded through the science budget of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
Established on 1 April 2018 by the Higher Education and Research Act 2017, UKRI brings together seven existing research councils, Innovate UK and the Research and Knowledge Exchange functions of the Higher Education Funding Council for England into one unified body. Working in partnership with universities, research organisations, businesses, charities and government its mission is to foster research and development within the United Kingdom and create a positive "impact" – "push the frontiers of human knowledge and understanding", "deliver economic impact" and "create social and cultural impact". UKRI was created following a report by Sir Paul Nurse, the President of the Royal Society, who recommended the merger in order to increase integrative cross-disciplinary research. The first Chief Executive Officer of UKRI was the immunologist Professor Sir Mark Walport. He was succeeded on 29 June 2020 by plant biologist Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser.
It maintains the Gateway to Research portal "to enable users to search and analyse information about publicly funded research".

Research councils

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