As Chair of All Party Parliamentary & Scientific Committee, & former Minister for Science, Research & Innovation I have written to Rachel Reeves to stress importance of R&D in growing the economy & tackling the big challenges we face... CaSE georgefreeman.co.uk/news/freeman-u…

As we near the end of CAPE, it is a timely moment to reflect on the evolution of the academic-policy engagement landscape over the course of the project. Read more: cape.ac.uk/2024/10/17/cap…

Fact alert: Only 200 estates per year claim more than £1 million in Agricultural Relief, and they had an average estate value of £6 million. The other c.1000 estates per year that claim AR wouldn't be affected by the cap. All the facts on IHT you could possibly want in this

Very encouraging that R&D was referenced in the Chancellor's speech today. Protecting R&D spending - even when times are tough - is the right thing to do. Treasury recognition of the importance of R&D to growth - and the UK's strengths in this - bodes well.

There's even a small increase in the R&D budget for next year - from £20bn to £20.4bn - and an increase to DSIT's share of that. It looks like the sector's worst fears about how the lumpiness of costs relating to Horizon and the guarantee will be budgeted for have been allayed

OK how am I only now finding out it’s actually supposed to be pronounced ‘puh-sniffle’ ?

Sector responds to English tuition fee rise announcement. Announcement welcomed by university bodies including Universities UK and Russell Group , but the sector’s biggest union UCU has called the rise “economically and morally wrong”. Response: researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-pol…

Nice to be out and about at University of Warwick Festival of Innovation today. Looks like a great line up warwick.ac.uk/about/60/conve… . Thanks Tim Hart for the invite!

Medicaid portals are shut down in every single state

Buckle up, folks

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Ian Chapman, who currently heads the UK Atomic Energy Authority, will take over at UK Research and Innovation timeshighereducation.com/news/nuclear-f…

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📣Lord David Willetts is the new Chair of the Regulatory Innovation Office. He'll be leading RIO to help bring emerging tech to market that can deliver real impacts for the public, like these @Apianaero drones which are reducing blood sample delivery time from 30 min to 2

🚨Hiring news! 🚨 I’m looking to hire five really important new roles in UKRI. Each will lead a major new innovation programme to tackle one of five major national challenges.

Along with CaSE, Institute of Physics & Royal Society of Chemistry, we've written to UK Prime Minister and Ursula von der Leyen European Commission to highlight the importance of R&D collaboration in the UK's future relationship with the EU. russellgroup.ac.uk/news/rd-sector… Find out more in Research Fortnight ⬇️

UK Research and Innovation prepares to ‘absorb fiscal shocks’. Research councils brace for restricted budgets, with “challenging” settlement for 2025-26 expected imminently. researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-res…

💫 We’re launching the Centre for British Progress Our founding essay: Rediscovering British Progress is a case for growth that drives shared progress, rooted in Britain's values and industrial heritage. It all starts with a postcard from 1870 👇 britishprogress.org/articles/redis…

🚨Breaking🚨 Ministers confirm UK Research and Innovation budget will fall. Funding agency’s allocation drops by £300m for 2025-26, despite rising R&D spending at science department. researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-res…

Good to be hearing the old boss (now Professor Sir, of course) Geoff Mulgan being very interesting on new institutional architectures for #STI agencies and bodies at UCL Research on Research Institute (RoRI) this evening, alongside luminaires like Martin Smith and Ine Steenmans :-)