Stay up to date about the UKRI Funding Service

This page provides the research community with regular updates on UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) new Funding Service.

Funding Service users with administrator status

Recent updates include:

  • administrators can edit all sections of an application
  • there is an edit log in each section of the application, so applicants and administrators can see who has made an edit and when
  • in addition to the existing filter by ‘status’ function, they can now filter and search by groups (if they have already set up their notification groups in the Funding Service)
  • administrators can edit and submit the applicant response to reviewers

Project leads

Recent updates include:

  • project leads can now give access to collaborators to view the application prior to submission
  • references should now be added under the relevant question within an additional word limit allowance
  • applicant response can now include images
  • references used to anonymise reviewers will appear sequentially (this will appear for usable reviews only, and reference to unusable reviews will remain hidden)

Reviewer

Recent updates include:

  • reviewers view the status of review invites and can accept or decline a review invite via their Funding Service account, so they do not solely have to rely on receiving an email to do this
  • reviewer deadline date automatically set to 21 days from invitation
  • reviewers can now create an account using link received by email

All users

Recent updates include:

  • accessibility improvements across service
  • users can change their email

Additional resources

Funding Service training videos on YouTube

Council transition to the new Funding Service

Last updated: 15 August 2024

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