UKRI investment and outputs publication

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:

For a background to the published data, definitions, coverage and how we processed them, view our:

 

Last updated: 1 September 2025

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