Big increase in UK research funding may bring major system revamp

Interesting, but also potentially harmful if there is little or no funding for smaller, more exploratory projects. Also, will this new initiative put money into research and implementation of the best ways to promote "public accountability [and] public communication of research"? We also need investigation of the best ways to foster transdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary research, including involving the stakeholders and end users who are not researchers, which can be fraught and take time and commitment to work properly. Research funding in those areas has been woefully neglected.