The budget has finally given UKRI a strategic purpose

Debate over status of new agency for ‘high-risk, high-payoff research’ is non-issue compared with its direction and leadership, others suggest

5 February

The hunt for a new UK research supremo continues, apparently after the shortlisted candidates failed to pass muster

3 February

Conservative mistrust of the existing research funding system demands a re-examination of its uneasy compromises, says John Womersley

5 November

UK academics love the ERC, but selective participation in Horizon Europe is unlikely to be on the table, says John Womersley

20 February

Focusing on how to deliver the UK government’s big ambitions for science could arrest the troubled funder’s drift, says John Womersley