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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.

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Joint global health trials

This programme aims to generate new knowledge about interventions by funding research that will contribute to the improvement of health in low and middle income countries, particularly addressing questions of major importance to mortality and morbidity.

MRC

Joint programming initiative on agriculture, food security and climate change

The Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE-JPI) promotes integration and alignment of national research resources and priorities in Europe under a common research strategy to address diverse challenges in agriculture, food security and climate change.

BBSRC

Joint programming initiatives

The Joint Programming Initiative on Cultural Heritage (JPI CH) promotes safeguarding cultural heritage including tangible, intangible, and digital assets. The JPI on Urban Europe (JPI UE) will help Europe’s cities transition to a future maximising their sustainability, resilience and liveability.

AHRC

Landscape decisions: towards a new framework for using land assets

The aim of this programme is to find ways to deliver a better, evidence-based and interdisciplinary decision-making framework to inform how land is used, through research collaboration with policy, business and land management partners.

AHRCBBSRCEPSRCESRCNERC

Latin American Biodiversity Programme

The aim of this programme is to identify biodiversity at new levels of detail and understand the breadth and contribution to ecosystem services made by biodiversity within Latin America. This will be achieved through new transnational collaborative research activity.

NERC

Light matter interaction and optical phenomena

This research area covers theoretical and experimental research in atom-light interactions, laser trapping, optical tweezers, spanners, traps and atomic optics.

EPSRC

Logic and combinatorics

Logic includes model theory, recursion theory, proof theory and set theory. Combinatorics is concerned with the study of discrete structures such as graphs and hypergraphs.

EPSRC

Low cost nuclear

The Low Cost Nuclear programme phase two was a research and development programme to further develop the UK small modular reactor power station concept to successfully pass the key regulatory milestone of Generic Design Assessment (GDA) Step two completion by 31 March 2025. It was led by Rolls-Royce SMR Ltd. with UKRI as delivery partner overseeing programme management on behalf of the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero, who were accountable for the project.

Innovate UK

Made Smarter Innovation

The Made Smarter Innovation challenge funds businesses and researchers to deliver a resilient, flexible, more productive and environmentally sustainable UK manufacturing sector.

EPSRCESRCInnovate UK

Managing our portfolio and priorities

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) manages its portfolio and priorities to maintain the UK’s world-leading position in engineering and physical sciences research, aligning the portfolio we support to areas of UK strength and national importance.

EPSRC

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