We are committed to undertaking high-quality evaluation at UKRI, recognising the vital role it plays in making us an effective and efficient organisation.
The UKRI evaluation strategy describes why evaluation is important and some of the features of evaluation in a research and innovation context. It outlines our vision for evaluation and highlights key areas of focus to help us achieve that vision.
Our vision is for high-quality evaluation to be embedded throughout UKRI, generating robust, reliable, and trusted evidence, helping us understand and improve our impact.
To achieve our vision, we are focusing on four key areas of action:
- proportionate evaluation practices
- high-quality evaluation
- a culture of continuous improvement
- ethical evaluation
Actions include continuing to commission independent evaluations of our major research and innovation grants and investments, and building our in-house skills, capabilities and analytical frameworks.
We are also promoting the use of evaluation evidence within programme design and decision-making, and will continue to publish our evaluation reports.
Across our evaluation activity we work collaboratively with the sector to collectively tackle challenges in undertaking research and innovation evaluation.
Ask us a question about evaluation
Contact us for any queries or to discuss more about our approach to evaluation at UKRI.
evaluation-performance@ukri.org
Last updated: 12 September 2024