<2>UKRI’s funding reforms: universities and researchers should be valued collaborators, not an afterthought
<3>The UK health research funding landscape has undergone unprecedented changes over the past three months. UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the UK’s largest public investor in research and innovation, is redesigning how it allocates its four-year £38.6bn budget across its seven research councils.
<4>According to the latest updates from UKRI, the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has dramatically narrowed its scope for global health funding to focus on “acute and chronic global health security threats,” after pausing its global health programme for around six months. < href='https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/global-health-security' target='_blank'>Understanding Global Health Security.
<5>Researchers have voiced concerns about job losses, institutional instability, and the waste of time and public money invested in writing and reviewing grant applications for schemes that were unexpectedly terminated or paused. < href='https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01596-1' target='_blank'>Research Funding in Turmoil.
<6>UKRI should mitigate the potential negative impacts of these rapid changes by considering three