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This is a detailed list of all our councils’ themes, research areas, programmes and priorities. You can find what we are investing in and what resources you can access.

To understand our overarching objectives and future plans, see the UKRI strategic themes and council delivery plans.

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Accelerating detection of disease

This UKRI Challenge Fund investment will recruit up to five million volunteers who have agreed to help in a health project that will track their health records and potentially invite them to join further research studies.

Innovate UK

Accelerator science

The Science and Technology Facilities Council hosts record-breaking accelerators that are pushing the boundaries in many areas of science and technology and is investing in ways to make them more powerful and sophisticated.

STFC

Addiction research

These investments support and fund cross-discipline research activities that will address the biological, medical, social and economic aspects of addiction and substance misuse.

ESRCMRC

Administrative Data Research UK (ADR UK)

The Administrative Data Research UK (ADR UK) partnership:

links together data held by different parts of government
facilitates safe and secure access for accredited researchers to newly joined-up and de-identified datasets to enable better informed policy decisions that improve people’s lives

ESRC

Adolescence, mental health and the developing mind

The aim of this programme is to support and fund research that examines how mental health problems emerge in young people, what makes some more susceptible or resilient than others, and how we can intervene early to promote positive mental health and wellbeing.

MRC

Adolescent Health Study

MRC’s Adolescent Health Study (AHS) will be a new longitudinal population study and data platform. It will focus on the critical biological and social developments that occur during adolescence.

AHS will aim to recruit and retain around 100,000 young people, aged eight to 18 at enrolment, and will follow their health and wellbeing for a period of 10 years. Recruitment will take place predominantly through schools.

The vision is to stimulate an exponential increase in research to understand health trajectories and outcomes for young people, with a key focus on health equity.

MRC

Adolescent health within applied global health research

The aim of this area of investment is to fund innovative applied research to improve adolescent health in low and middle-income countries (LMICs).

MRC

Advanced manufacturing and clean growth

This programme holds a major role in supporting the development of new biological processes, strains of organisms and feedstocks. These can be used to support:

novel, bio-based and low carbon manufacturing processes
the production of more sustainable products
the development of remediation processes.

BBSRCEPSRCInnovate UKNERC

Advanced materials theme

New materials have the potential to radically transform society. The role of this theme is to provide strategic leadership to a diverse and distributed community and to work across UKRI to champion investment in materials innovation and to enable novel technologies that combat societal challenges.

EPSRC

Advanced pain discovery platform (APDP)

The aim of this programme is to deliver a consortium-based platform of national scale that will break through the complexity of pain and reveal potential new treatment approaches to address a wide spectrum of chronic and debilitating clinical conditions.

BBSRCESRCMRC

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