Application questions
Related applications
Word limit: 2,200
Provide a response to feedback from your stage one Experimental medicine application or previous stage two Experimental medicine application. You should include the feedback as part of your response. This counts towards the word limit.
What the assessors are looking for in your response
In your response ensure you:
- describe how this application differs from the stage one application, or the stage two application if this is an invited resubmission
- explain how the feedback provided on earlier versions has been considered and acted on
Please identify, if applicable, if your application is a resubmission to Experimental medicine, including any invitations from us permitting your resubmission and previous reference number.
References may be included within this section.
You may demonstrate elements of your responses in visual form if relevant. Further details are provided in the Funding Service.
New investigators
Word limit: 1
Are you applying as a new investigator?
What the assessors are looking for in your response
Enter either ‘yes’ or ‘no’ in the text box, to confirm if you are submitting your application as a new investigator and mark the section as complete.
If you are applying as a new investigator, you must also provide your responses to the other three new investigator related questions within your application:
- new investigator award: eligibility
- new investigator award: career development
- new investigator award: research organisation support
Find out more about eligibility and applying for a New Investigator Award.
New investigator award: eligibility
Word limit: 250
Why are you applying for this opportunity as a new investigator?
What assessors are looking for in your response
If you are not eligible to apply as a new investigator, you should respond ‘N/A’ in the text box and mark this section as complete.
New investigator eligibility
To be considered eligible to apply as a new investigator, you must give a clear description of why you are eligible to apply for funding through this funding opportunity, as a new investigator. In your response you should demonstrate your eligibility by confirming that you have:
- not already achieved independence. See MRC applicant skills and experience criteria
- not been awarded a substantial grant as fellow or project lead, that is three or more years duration and includes salary support for one or more additional team members
- not already held a transition to independence award
- independently devised and will lead the delivery of the proposed work, and any project co-leads and other team members are providing essential complimentary expertise (if applicable)
Find out more about MRC new investigator award eligibility.
Vision
Word limit: 1,100
What are you hoping to achieve with your proposed work?
What the assessors are looking for in your response
Explain how your proposed work:
- is of excellent quality and importance within or beyond the field(s) or area(s)
- has the potential to advance current understanding, or generate new knowledge, thinking or discovery within or beyond the field or area
- is timely given current trends, context, and needs
- impacts world-leading research, society, the economy, or the environment
Within the Vision section we also expect you to:
- provide details of the current clinical challenge, healthcare burden or knowledge gap
- summarise the current state of understanding about the relevant mechanisms of disease
- identify the current gap in mechanistic understanding
- state the mechanistic hypothesis to be tested
- identify the potential direct or indirect benefits and who the beneficiaries might be
- identify potential improvements in human or population health, whether through contributing to relieving disease or disability burden, improving quality of life or providing benefit to the health service or health-related industry
- if applicable, describe the route to patient benefit
- explain if the results will be valuable for discovery science through ‘reverse translation’
References may be included within this section.
You may demonstrate elements of your responses in visual form if relevant. Further details are provided in the Funding Service.
Intervention
Word limit: 550
What is the planned intervention?
What the assessors are looking for in your response
Explain the planned intervention to be used in the proposed work, including:
- the type of intervention, which may include compound, biologic, psychological, physiological, vaccine or immune challenge
- relevant background information, including its established safety profile and use in other mechanistic studies
- a summary of the development history of the intervention (if applicable)
- details of any existing intellectual property associated with this intervention (if applicable)
References may be included throughout the intervention section.
You may demonstrate elements of your responses in visual form if relevant. Further details are provided in the Funding Service.
Approach
Word limit: 3,500
How are you going to deliver your proposed work?
What the assessors are looking for in your response
We suggest you structure your response using the following headings, with approximate words limits for each:
- project plan: 1,650 words
- methodology and experimental design: 850 words
- risk management: 400 words
- environment, infrastructure and equipment: 400 words
- engagement, communication and dissemination: 200 words
References may be included throughout the ‘Approach’ section. We suggest you include your references under the most relevant heading. Any references you include count towards the approximate word limit indicated for each heading.
Project plan
Provide a detailed and comprehensive project plan, including timelines presented as an embedded Gantt chart or similar, including:
- the objectives of the proposed research, listed in order of priority
- the primary and secondary experimental outcomes, and how they relate to the experimental objectives
- how the proposed work packages will ensure the project objectives are achieved
Explain how your approach is effective and appropriate to achieve your objectives.
Please ensure that the Gantt chart provided is legible and shows project tasks together with at least two progression milestones, including the project end goal.
Methodology and experimental design
Provide details on the proposed methodology and experimental design, including the:
- experiments that will be undertaken to test the stated hypothesis
- data that will be collected and how it will be used to test the hypothesis
- proposed trial design and why this approach is appropriate for achieving the study objectives
As part of your methodology and experimental design, describe the nature of human participation in the proposed work. Include:
- the number of participants, their characteristics (such as age, health condition or disease) and the rationale for their selection
- the procedures participants will undertake and the level of burden or risk involved
- evidence that recruitment targets are achievable across the project timeline
- your participant recruitment strategy, including contingency plans if recruitment does not meet the planned targets
- how you will obtain ethical and regulatory approvals, including the current status of any approvals. Consider the MRC guidance on ethics and approvals if applicable, details of any limited animal work, library specimens or isolate cells, and how this work will inform the proposed human-centric work. For research involving animals, tissues or cells, explain how you will include material from both male and female donors in line with MRC guidance on sex in experimental design. If this is not appropriate, provide a strong justification
- explain and justify the inclusion of public partnerships (if applicable) and the added value these offer
You should detail any information regarding your statistical design in the ‘Reproducibility and statistical design’ section.
Risk management
Demonstrate that your proposed approach is feasible, identifying any risks to delivery and explaining how these will be managed. Include:
- how likely the risks are to occur
- what their impact would be on the success and deliverability of the project
- your risk mitigation strategy, giving particular consideration to any potential safety risks and how these risks will be managed, by whom, and the related escalation or mitigation procedures
You may include a risk table to support your response.
Environment, infrastructure and equipment
Describe how your research environment (in terms of the place and relevance to the project), and that of your team where applicable, will contribute to the successful delivery of the proposed work.
Demonstrate access to the appropriate services, clinical support, facilities, infrastructure, or equipment to deliver the proposed work, including:
- specialist equipment or infrastructure required to deliver the project objectives
- proposed use of existing joint research facilities
- proposed use of existing clinical infrastructure, for example Experimental Cancer Medicine Centres, NIHR Biomedical Research Centres, NIHR Clinical Research Facilities, patient cohorts
- if not already in place, explain how you will ensure this infrastructure is accessible by the project start date
Engagement, communication and dissemination
Describe how you will maximise translation of outputs into outcomes and impacts through your plans for engagement, communication and dissemination with:
- the research community
- wider audiences, where appropriate
- patients, the public and other relevant stakeholders, including your public and patient involvement and engagement plans
You may demonstrate elements of your responses in visual form if relevant. Further details are provided in the Funding Service.
Reproducibility and statistical design
Word limit: 500
How will you ensure your proposed work is reliable, robust and reproducible?
What assessors are looking for in your response
Provide information on how you will ensure the reproducibility, reliability and robustness of your proposed work, including any additional details of statistical analyses, methodology and experimental design that were not covered in your approach.
We expect you to seek professional statistical or other relevant advice in preparing your response, which may include, as appropriate:
- sample and effect sizes
- planned statistical analyses
- models chosen (for example animal model, cell line)
- potential sources of bias and how these will be mitigated during analysis
- how your approach to addressing diversity is reflected in the experimental design and analyses
Ensure you justify your proposed samples and effect sizes, statistical analysis plan and any assumptions used.
Refer to the MRC guidance for applicants, for further information, examples and online tools.
If your proposed work involves animals, and you provide information on animal sample sizes and statistical analyses here, you should not duplicate it in the ‘Animal and involvement and ‘3Rs’’ section. Use the ‘Animal and involvement and ‘3Rs’’ section to provide information on the rationale for using animals, choice of species, welfare and procedure severity.
You may demonstrate elements of your responses in visual form if relevant. Further details are provided in the Funding Service.
The length of your response will vary depending on the type of project, you may not need to use 500 words.
Project milestones
Word limit: 1,500
Provide details of your project milestones.
What the assessors are looking for in your response
Provide at least two key progression milestones for your project (one of which should be the project end), that:
- delineate the proposed work into costed project phases with clear ‘go or no-go’ decision points
- provide the success criteria that will be used for each milestone, with target and acceptable thresholds
You may include as many milestones as needed for your project. Milestones are key points at which progress is assessed before proceeding to the next phase of the work. Project tasks and work packages may run concurrently across different milestones. However, milestones must occur at distinct time points and should not overlap.
Milestones must be SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-framed).
They should:
- detail robust ‘go or no-go’ criteria (failure to meet these will result in early termination of the project)
- be structured so that critical questions are addressed as early as possible in the plan
Success criteria should be based on project outputs that must be achieved at that point, to justify continuing the work. Success criteria should align to project aims and objectives. For the final milestone: success criteria should reflect what would constitute success for the funded aspect of your project.
For each success criterion, specify:
- a quantified target value you aim to achieve
- a quantified acceptable value, which, if achieved, would still support project progression
A brief justification should be provided for the criteria and values selected, explaining why they are suitable for assessing progress at this point in the project. Note that target and acceptable values must be achieved at the same timepoint and that milestones must be sequential.
For clinical studies, this should include a summary of:
- study design
- study participants
- study endpoints
- dose (if applicable)
- analysis plans
These elements must be directly linked to clear success criteria with defined target and acceptable values.
Do not include project management meetings or other process-related tasks as milestone success criteria.
Additional guidance will be provided on the Funding Service on how to complete this section, including the required format.
For each milestone, using the table format, you will be asked to provide the following details:
- duration (in months) from project start and from the previous milestone (not applicable for the first milestone, Milestone one)
- milestone full economic costing (FEC) and cumulative FEC from project start
- likelihood of meeting the milestone’s criteria
- objectives
- measurable success criteria with target and minimum acceptable values for each criterion, along with a justification for these choices
Data management and sharing
Word limit: 1,500
How will you manage and share data collected or acquired through the proposed research?
What the assessors are looking for in your response
Provide a data management plan which should clearly detail how you will comply with MRC’s published data management and sharing policies, which includes detailed guidance notes.
Provide your response in the text box following the headings in the MRC data management plan template. You are not required to upload the document to your application.
The length of your plan will vary depending on the type of study being undertaken:
- population cohorts; longitudinal studies; genetic, omics and imaging data; biobanks, and other collections that are potentially a rich resource for the wider research community: maximum of 1,500 words
- all other research, less complex, the plan may be as short as 500 words
New investigator award: career development
Word limit: 250
How will this award contribute to your career development as the project lead?
What the assessors are looking for in your response
If you are not eligible to apply as a new investigator, you should respond ‘N/A’ in the text box and mark this section as complete.
Explain why you are applying for this new investigator award and demonstrate how it will support you in achieving your:
- long-term career goals and chosen career route
- plans to develop your own research profile
- independence, as the sole intellectual leader of the proposed work
- plans to secure further grant support during or after this award
- plans to establish and lead a research team
We also expect you to demonstrate how you will instigate positive change in the wider research and innovation community, for example through:
- equality diversity and inclusion
- advocacy or advisory roles
- stakeholder engagement
- participation in peer review
- influencing policy
- public engagement or outreach
Applicant and team capability to deliver
Word limit: 2,200
Why are you the right individual or team to successfully deliver the proposed work?
What the assessors are looking for in your response
Evidence of how you, and if relevant, your team have:
- the relevant experience (appropriate to career stage) to deliver the proposed work
- the right balance of skills and expertise to cover the proposed work
- the appropriate leadership and management skills to deliver the work and your approach to develop others
- contributed to developing a positive research environment and wider community
You may demonstrate elements of your responses in visual form if relevant. Further details are provided in the Funding Service.
The word limit for this section is 2,200 words:
- 1,500 words to be used for Résumé for Research and Innovation (R4RI) modules (including references)
- 200 words to summarise the career stage of the core team (an example table will be provided within the Funding Service to assist you with your summary)
- 500 words for Additions if necessary
Use the R4RI format to showcase the range of relevant skills you and, if relevant, your team (project lead and project co-leads, researchers, technicians, specialists, partners and so on) have and how this will help deliver the proposed work. You can include individuals’ specific achievements but only choose past contributions that best evidence their ability to deliver this work. You are encouraged to include ORCID iDs for individuals where relevant, as this can help to demonstrate and verify their achievements.
Complete this section using the R4RI module headings listed. Use each heading once and include a response for the whole team, see the UKRI guidance on R4RI. You should consider how to balance your answer, and emphasise where appropriate the key skills each team member brings:
- contributions to the generation of new ideas, tools, methodologies, or knowledge, this may include your previous funding and key outputs such as publications
- the development of others and maintenance of effective working relationships
- contributions to the wider research and innovation community
- contributions to broader research or innovation users and audiences and towards wider societal benefit, including public partnerships
- if you are applying as a new investigator, you need to make your leadership role clear and justify the team around you
Additions
Provide any further details relevant to your application. This section is optional and can be up to 500 words. You should not use it to describe additional skills, experiences, or outputs, but you can use it to describe any factors that provide context for the rest of your R4RI (for example, details of career breaks if you wish to disclose them).
Complete this as a narrative. Do not format it like a CV.
References may be included within this section.
The roles in funding applications policy has descriptions of the different project roles.
New investigator award: research organisation support
Word limit: 1,000
What support will be provided by the research organisation for your new investigator award?
What the assessors are looking for in your response
If you are not eligible to apply as a new investigator, you should respond ‘N/A’ in the text box and mark this section as complete.
Considering your career trajectory and how the support offered forms a cohesive career development package for you, provide a clear statement of commitment and support from the research organisation to you and the project covering:
- how your expertise fits within the wider interest and strategies of the research organisation and department
- development and training opportunities to be provided and how they form a cohesive career development package tailored to you
- mentoring and support arrangements proposed and how they are appropriate to you, include the name of any current or future mentors
- financial support to be provided, including the contribution to your salary, and how this improves the application
This statement of support should also provide:
- the name and role of the person providing the statement, who should be the Head of Department or other senior manager
- how they will support you following the end of the award
- how they recognise and value you as part of their team and will integrate you into the research organisation, enabling you to develop your independence and the focus of your research
- guidance and training on setting up a research group, building partnerships and collaborations, or with public engagement
- rapid access to resources at the research organisation through knowledge of appropriate processes and systems
- access to career development support and advice to enable future career transitions
- support for any proposed leadership activities
- access to laboratory space or investment in equipment to establish your laboratory, and access to communal departmental resources
Project partners
Add details about any project partners contributions. If there are no project partners, you can indicate this on the Funding Service.
A project partner is a collaborating person or organisation who will have an integral role in your proposed research. This may include direct contributions for example cash, donated equipment and resources, or staff seconded to the project, or indirect and in-kind contributions for example use of project partner’s equipment, datasets, or facilities. Project partners may be in industry, academia, third sector or government organisations in the UK or overseas, including partners based in the EU.
A project partner is not anyone in your core team or anyone from your organisation or any of the other organisations represented by core team members.
If an individual or organisation outside the core team is responsible for recruiting people as research participants or providing human tissue for this project, list them as a project partner.
Add the following project partner details:
- the organisation name (searchable via a drop-down list or enter the organisation’s details manually, as applicable)
- the project partner contact name and email address
- the type of contribution (direct or in-direct) and its monetary value
If a detail is entered incorrectly and you have saved the entry, remove the specific project partner record and re-add it with the correct information.
If there are specific circumstances where project partners do require funding for minor costs such as travel and subsistence, these project partner costs should be claimed and justified within the ’Resources and costs’ section of your application.
Important information
If you are adding a project partner to this section, you must ensure they provide you with a letter or email of support and you upload it to ‘Project partners: letters or emails of support’.
If your project partners are from industry or a company, you must also complete the ‘Industry Collaboration Framework (ICF)’ section.
Project partners responsible for carrying out animal work
If the project partner is responsible for conducting animal work or providing animals or animal tissue samples, you must ensure that you complete and upload the appropriate forms under ‘Animal involvement and ’3Rs’’ section (if applicable).
For audit purposes, UKRI requires formal collaboration agreements to be put in place if an award is made.
Project partners: letters (or emails) of support
Word limit: 10
Upload a single PDF containing the letters or emails of support from each partner you named in the ‘Project partners’ section. These should be uploaded in English or Welsh only.
What the assessors are looking for in your response
If you do not have any project partners, you will be able to indicate this in the Funding Service.
What supporting statements we are looking for
We are looking for you to provide letters or emails of support from all your identified project partners.
What we are not looking for
We don’t want any other letters (or emails) of support, from people who are not your identified project partners, such as those simply expressing general support for your project. If these are included by you, they will be ignored by us and will not be used in the assessment process.
Important information
You should only provide letters or emails of support from people you have identified in the project partner section of your application, who will have an integral role in your proposed research.
What each project partner letter or email of support must include
Each project partner letter or email you provide should:
- include the name of the project partner organisation and contact information
- explain the project partners’ commitment to the project
- explain the value, relevance, and possible benefits of the proposed work, to them
- describe any additional value they will bring to the project
- not exceed two sides of A4 per project partner
Project partner letters and emails of support are not required to be on headed paper or include handwritten signatures (electronic signatures are acceptable).
The Funding Service will provide document upload details when you apply.
Project partner(s) from industry or a company
Industry or company project partners are required to download and complete the industry or company letter of support template. You must also complete the ‘Industry Collaboration Framework (ICF)’ section. Find out more about ICF.
Project partners responsible for recruiting research participants or providing human tissue or samples
If the project partner is responsible for the recruitment of people as research participants or providing human tissue their letter or email of support should include:
- agreement that the project partner will recruit the participants or provide tissue
- confirmation that what is being supplied is suitable for the proposed work
- confirmation that the quantity of tissue being supplied is suitable, but not excessive for achieving meaningful results (if applicable)
Agreement with your project partners
Ensure you have prior agreement from project partners so that, if you are offered funding, they will support your project as indicated in the ‘Project partners’ section.
For audit purposes, UKRI requires formal collaboration agreements to be put in place if an award is made.
Industry Collaboration Framework (ICF)
Word limit: 1,500
Does your application include collaboration with industry or company project partners?
What the assessors are looking for in your response
The assessors are looking for you to confirm if your proposed work involves collaboration with an industry or company project partner. If it does, you will need to follow the MRC ICF.
By ‘industry or company’ we mean an enterprise that puts or has intention to put goods or services on a market.
For guidance to assist your decision if your proposed work requires you to follow the MRC ICF, you should explore the ICF decision tree and find out more about MRC ICF which includes:
- collaboration agreements
- definitions of basic or applied research
- internationally based companies
- subsidy control
- intellectual property (IP) arrangements
- fully flexible and gated contributions
- the ICF assessment criteria
Enter ‘Yes’ in the text box if you have industry or company project partners and you are likely to follow the ICF. You should also confirm your answers to the ICF questions one to nine in the text box for each ICF project partner.
Contact experimental.medicine@mrc.ukri.org if you are unsure if your application should follow the ICF.
In addition to the project partner information completed in the previous section, the assessors are looking for information relating to the nature, goals and conditions of the collaboration and any restrictions or rights to the project results that could be claimed by the industry or company project partner.
Confirm your answers to the ICF questions in the text box, repeat this process for each ICF project partner.
- Name the industry or company project partner considered under the ICF.
- Indicate whether your application is basic research or applied research.
- Explain why, in the absence of the requested UKRI funding, the collaboration and the planned research could not be undertaken.
- State whether your application is under the category of fully flexible contribution or gated contribution (based on the IP sharing arrangements with the industry or company partner).
- Outline the pre-existing IP (‘background IP’) that each partner, including the academic partner, will bring to the collaborative research project and the terms under which partners may access these assets.
- Outline the IP that is expected to be developed during the collaborative research project (‘foreground IP’) and briefly outline how it will be managed, including:
- who will own this IP
- what rights industry or company partners will have to use academically-generated foreground IP during and after the research project, for internal research and development or for commercial purposes
- any rights of the academic partner to commercialise the foreground IP, including foreground IP generated by industry or company partners
- Outline any restrictions to dissemination of the project results, including the rights of the industry or company partner to:
- review, approve or delay publications (including the time period associated with such rights)
- request or require the removal of any information
- Declare any conflicts of interest held by the applicants in relation to the industry or company project partners and describe how they will be managed.
- Justify collaborating with an overseas industry or company under the ICF (if applicable).
Failure to provide the information requested for industry or company partners under the ICF could result in your application being rejected.
You are recommended to discuss the goals and conditions of any collaboration with an industry or company with your technology transfer or contracts office (or equivalent) before applying.
For audit purposes, UKRI requires formal collaboration agreements to be put in place if an award is made. You must provide us with a copy of the collaboration agreement, signed by all partners, before an ICF award starts.
If this does not apply to your proposed work, you will be able to indicate this in the Funding Service.
Ethics and responsible research and innovation (RRI)
What are the ethical and RRI considerations, implications and issues relating to the proposed work? If you do not think that the proposed work raises any ethical or RRI issues, explain why.
What the assessors are looking for in your response
Demonstrate that you have identified and evaluated:
- the relevant ethical and RRI considerations, including both the research or topic area itself and the design and delivery of the project
- the wider implications of the proposed work, and how you will maximise the positive societal, environmental, and economic benefits arising from the project, whilst minimising unintended negative impacts, such as research misuse or accidental harm
- how you will manage these considerations throughout the lifecycle of the project
Please refer to the UKRI position statement on funding ethical research and Responsible innovation for more information around our expectations on ethical and responsible research and innovation.
Animal involvement and ’3Rs’
You must complete this section about how your proposed project will involve or impact animals.
If your project does not involve or impact animals, you must confirm this on the next page.
You may be asked about:
- what animals you are involving
- the severity of the procedures you are using
- where the procedures will take place
- welfare standards you aim to meet
- the relevance of your project to the development, validation or dissemination of the 3Rs
You may also need to download, complete, and upload at least one set of additional questions. You will be told how to do this towards the end of this section.
To complete this section and check whether your project is in the scope of the questions, refer to the UKRI policy for research and innovation involving animals.
What counts as an animal
UKRI policy relates to all animals in the Kingdom Animalia, including vertebrates and invertebrates.
Genetically modified organisms and biological risk
You must complete this section if your project will include genetically modified organisms or genetic technologies.
If your project does not involve genetically modified organisms or genetic technologies, you must confirm this on the next page.
You may be asked about:
- the type of organism your project will involve and the procedures your project will include
- the intended use of the organism or genetic technology
- the genetic, biological and environmental risks of your project
For more information, see UKRI’s guidance on genetic technologies.
Human participation in health-related research
You must complete this section about whether your project will include human participation.
If your project does not involve human participation, you must confirm this on the next page.
You may be asked about:
- what type of human participation your project includes
- the project design for human participation
- the phase of the clinical trial
- whether the project will be in an NHS setting, if so how the project will be registered
- whether diversity and inclusion will be considered
For more information, see UKRI’s guidance for human participants in research.
Resources and cost justification
Word limit: 1,200
What will you need to deliver your proposed work and how much will it cost?
What the assessors are looking for in your response
Justify the application’s more costly resources, in particular:
- project staff
- significant travel for field work or collaboration (but not regular travel between collaborating organisations or to conferences)
- any equipment that will cost more than £25,000
- any consumables beyond typical requirements, or that are required in exceptional quantities
- all facilities and infrastructure costs
- all resources that have been costed as ‘Exceptions’
- costs for preserving, long-term storage, or sharing of data
- support for international co-leads, demonstrating this is within the 30% costs cap for co-leads from high income countries, India and China. There is no cap on costs requested for international applicants from DAC list countries
- NHS research costs, when they are associated with clinical studies using NHS resources (please refer to detail in the ‘What we are looking for’ section for guidance on completing the SoECAT)
- animal costs, such as numbers that need to be bred or maintained and to maintain high welfare standards
- any work to be outsourced, including the reason for outsourcing, scope, provider and cost
- costs for public and patient involvement and engagement. Costs for public partnership including payments to public partners
You can request costs associated with reasonable adjustments where they increase as a direct result of working on the project. For further information see Disability and accessibility support for UKRI applicants and grant holders. Where a funding limit is imposed on the opportunity, requested costs for reasonable adjustments may exceed the maximum funding amount.
Assessors are not looking for detailed costs or a line-by-line breakdown of all project resources. Overall, they want you to demonstrate how the resources you anticipate needing for your proposed work:
- are comprehensive, appropriate, and justified
- represent the optimal use of resources to achieve the intended outcomes
- maximise potential outcomes and impacts
Trusted Research and Innovation (TR&I)
Trusted Research and Innovation is the protection of the UK’s intellectual property, sensitive research, people, and infrastructure from potential theft, misuse, and exploitation.
Organisations receiving UKRI funding are obliged to act in line with UK government legislation. They are also expected to undertake appropriate due diligence assessments of organisations involved in research partnerships, collaboration agreements, and commercial contracts.
You will be asked about:
- which areas of the National Security and Investment (NSI) Act your project relates to
- who you intend to collaborate with and how
- if your project requires an export control licence
Your answers may affect the T&Cs of your funding agreement if you are successful. We may use your answers to determine that our current T&Cs are sufficient or if additional T&Cs are required.
