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This is a detailed list of all our councils’ themes, research areas, programmes and priorities. You can find what we are investing in and what resources you can access.

To understand our overarching objectives and future plans, see the UKRI strategic themes and council delivery plans.

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Engineering design

This area looks at theories, methods and tools for generating, modelling, optimising, simulating and reasoning about complex engineered systems.

EPSRC

Engineering theme

The vision for engineering capability is to identify and tackle fundamental engineering research challenges with the potential for lasting benefit to the UK.

EPSRC

Ensuring the Security of Digital Technologies at the Periphery (SDTaP)

The SDTaP programme supports the development of a safe and secure Internet of Things (IoT). This is achieved through investment into:

PETRAS (Privacy, Ethics, Trust, Reliability, Acceptability and Security) National Centre of Excellence (NCE)
Innovate UK demonstrator projects
Innovate UK commercialisation programme
EPSRC research grants.

EPSRC

Environmental risks to infrastructure

This programme aims to bring together the systems that connect infrastructure – transport, utilities, communications and environmental management – to enable a better understanding of how they are affected by our changing environment and to develop opportunities for the UK economy.

NERC

EPSRC digital twins This programme is Completed

The Digital Twins theme worked with colleagues across UKRI and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to coordinate the UKRI strategy in support of the development of the UK national capability in digital twinning and cyber-physical infrastructure.

EPSRC

EPSRC impact acceleration accounts

Impact acceleration accounts (IAAs) are strategic awards providing funding to research
organisations to use creatively for a wide range of impact activities.

EPSRC

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Hub

The EPSRC Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Hub+ will act as a focal point of activity and knowledge of good EDI practice across the UK.

EPSRC

ERA-NET on coordinating action in plant sciences

European Research Area (ERA-NET) on Coordinating Action in Plant Sciences (ERA-CAPS) aims to increase European and international collaboration to create and coordinate sustainable transnational plant science research programmes.

BBSRC

ESRC-FCDO Raising Learning Outcomes in Education Systems

This research programme is co-funded by ESRC and the FCDO. It helps researchers to address key questions and build evidence in critical policy areas constraining education systems in developing countries.

Raising Learning Outcomes (RLO) provides concrete ideas for policy and practice on how to improve learning, and understanding of how these ideas will translate to specific contexts.

ESRC

European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP)

EDCTP aims to enhance research capacity and accelerate the development of new or improved health technologies for the identification, treatment and prevention of poverty-related and neglected infectious diseases, including emerging and re-emerging diseases in sub-Saharan Africa, through all phases of clinical trials, with emphasis on phase II and III trials.

MRC

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