Analysis

We have publishing new data from our ongoing public opinion research, which explores people’s reactions to different written and visual framings of R&D related concepts.

Planned increases to visa and immigration fees could undermine the UK’s ambitions for research and innovation.

In this piece we bring together some of the sector’s views and recommendations on the skills needed to make the UK a more research and innovation intensive economy.

Building a research-intensive UK will take coordinated effort, say Daniel Rathbone and Camilla d’Angelo

Immigration has been back in the news this week with a Government announcement about restrictions on international students bringing dependents to the UK.

Earlier this month the UK Government published the Pioneer Prospectus setting out an alternative R&D programme should the UK not associate to Horizon Europe.

In a guest blog for the BSA, Ben Bleasdale, Director of the Discovery Decade programme, shares some of its latest key findings.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released new estimates of R&D spending by UK Government departments and devolved administrations in 2021.

Last week the Chancellor made a series of announcements as part of the Spring Budget 2023. Below we delve into some of the measures impacting the R&D sector.

Our policy officer Camilla d’Angelo breaks down the long-awaited Independent Review of the UK’s Research, Development and Innovation Organisational Landscape led by Sir Paul Nurse.

The Government has published a Science and Technology Framework which contains 10 actions that the Government will focus on and sets out their vision and ongoing work for each action. We take a look at each action and offer our analysis and thoughts.

Polling shows the challenges facing research advocates—and how they could respond, writes Ben Bleasdale for Research Fortnight