Explore the latest figures on UKRI funding and research outputs providing a 10-year overview of each financial year from 2015 to 2025, reviewing and updating all previously published figures.
The UKRI data year is from 1 April to 31 March in the following year.
This publication covers:
1. funding investments: covering applications, funding decisions, and active awards.
2. outputs: covering studentships and outputs collected on awards using UKRI outcome collection surveys.
All data is available in Excel format, with a detailed data quality statement to guide interpretation.
Read the latest dataset UKRI investment and outputs data 2015 to 2025
Previous datasets
Find datasets and overview of UKRI previous funding decisions, investment and outputs data:
- UKRI investment and outputs 2023 to 2024
- UKRI research and innovation outputs 2014 to 2023, including investment and outputs data 2022 to 2023
- UKRI competitive funding decisions, investment and outputs data 2021 to 2022
For a background to the published data, definitions, coverage and how we processed them, view our:
- guide to investment and outputs data 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024
- guide to competitive funding decisions 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023
- guide to competitive funding decisions 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022
- guide to competitive funding decisions 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021
- guide to competitive funding decisions 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2020
Last updated: 1 September 2025