Developing people and skills

We support the development of skills and careers across research and innovation. We provide targeted talent investments such as fellowships and doctoral training awards. We also help foster a healthy research and innovation environment which attracts, retains and develops talented people.

How we invest in research and innovation careers

How we are using collective talent funding to strengthen UK research and development, and the frameworks we use for doctoral and fellowship funding

Career support in research

How we are influencing change in the research and innovation sector to support researchers in their careers, from doctoral study onwards

Research skills initiatives

Mentoring, internships, placements and other programmes available to students and researchers

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