UKRI investments that are currently being evaluated

As part of our efforts to evaluate and analyse the effectiveness of UKRI investment, at any one time we will be overseeing multiple evaluations of projects and activities.

On this page you can find out more about some of the programmes and activities that are currently being evaluated. We are sharing these details as we are committed to principles of transparency and openness.

When the reviews have concluded we will publish the outcomes as evaluation reports. This is where you can find UKRI’s completed evaluations and analyses, which we use to inform decision-making in UKRI policy, strategy and investment.

Examples of current, ongoing evaluations

National Productivity Investment Fund

We are evaluating the five National Productivity Investment Fund Programmes.

We will publish interim reports of these evaluations on our evaluation reports web page.

Timelines for programme evaluations

NPIF fund level evaluation deliverables: diagram

Fund for International Collaboration
  • 2020: evaluation framework
  • 2021: baseline and interim process evaluation
  • 2023: interim impact evaluation
  • 2024: process, impact, economic evaluation
Future Leaders Fellowships
  • 2021: scoping and feasibility study
  • 2022: evaluation framework
  • 2023: process evaluation
  • 2024: Interim impact evaluation
  • 2025: final impact evaluation
Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund
  • 2021: evaluation framework
  • 2022: baseline evaluation
  • 2023: process evaluation
  • 2024: interim impact evaluation
  • 2025: final impact evaluation
Strength in Places Fund
  • 2022: baseline evaluation
  • 2023: interim process evaluation
  • 2024: wave one interim impact evaluation
  • 2025: wave two interim impact evaluation
  • 2026: final impact evaluation
Strategic Priorities Fund
  • 2020: evaluation framework
  • 2021: baseline and interim process evaluation
  • 2023: interim impact evaluation
  • 2025: final impact evaluation

Last updated: 20 December 2024

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