Research England funding allocations from 2020 to 2021

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Funding for quality-related research 2020 to 2021

Element of Quality-related research (QR) grantFunding £ millionAdditional funding £ millionTotal funding £ million
Mainstream QR funding including London weighting1,095971,192
QR Research degree programme (RDP) supervision funding2600260
QR Charity support element2040204
QR Business research element641074
National research libraries707
Total QR funding1,6301071,737

See quality-related (QR) research funding data for 2020 to 2021 including:

  • mainstream QR funding, broken down by institution and subject
  • QR research degree programme (RDP) supervision funding, broken down by institution and subject
  • QR charity support funding and QR business research funding, broken down by institution
  • mapping between Research Excellence Framework 2014 unit of assessment (REF 2014 UOA), research cost weight and Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) cost centre
  • data sources for recurrent research funding
  • an example of the calculation of quality-weighted volume used in the mainstream QR funding method
  • a worked example for QR RDP supervision funding.

Last updated: 10 August 2026

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