Freedom of information (FOI) releases from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

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  1. FOI2024/01150: Follow up to FOI2024/01111 - Open Fellowship Scheme % FTE Data

    Request Received: 3 December 2024

    When I wrote “Open (Plus) Fellowships”, what I meant was both Open and Open Plus Fellowships. Might you be able to provide the data for the Open Fellowship scheme as well?

    I confirm that I am seeking data (% FTE of successful applicants) for the EPSRC Open Fellowships scheme only.

    Published: 21 January 2025

  2. FOI2024/01173: Radio Frequency Signal on 20 August 2001

    Request Received: 8 December 2024

    I have been studying the case of the crop circle known as: "The response to the signal sent by the Arecibo radio telescope", which appeared on August 20, 2001, next to the Chilbolton radio telescope.

    I am curious to know if, by chance, there was a record of any radio frequency signal captured on that date that could be related to the appearance of the aforementioned crop circle.

    Would you please provide me with this information?

    Published: 21 January 2025

  3. EIR2024/01220: Oceanic Co2 Uptake and Ocean Acidification

    Request Received: 13 December 2024

    Information regarding oceanic CO, uptake and ocean acidification. Specifically, I would like to request:

    1. Data and reports on the levels of CO2 absorbed by the oceans in UK waters and globally from the last 10 years.

    2. Studies or research projects funded or conducted by NERC on ocean acidification and its effects on marine ecosystems over the past decade.

    3. Can you provide a PhD research project on Ocean Acidification

    4. What specific methods or technologies have been used to measure changes in ocean pH in NERC-led projects

    Published: 16 January 2025

  4. FOI2024/01096: AHRC Grant Funding to Black Ethnicity PIs

    Request Received: 19 November 2024

    1. A list of the AHRC grant funding awards to Black (ethnicity) Principal Investigators between 2015-2024 (or the most recent award data available).

    2. A list of the AHRC grant funding awards to Black (ethnicity) Principal Investigators between 2015-2024 by award rate value (highest to lowest).

    Published: 15 January 2025

  5. FOI2024/01076: UKRI Studentships 2022-23 and 2023-24

    Request Received: 12 November 2024

    In September 2023, I requested information on the total number of UKRI-funded PhD starters – by research council, and by nationality – for 2018-19 to 2022-23. While the data was very comprehensive I wasn’t able to get complete data for 2022-23 as many institutions had not yet returned their information (with the academic year ending on 30 September 2023).

    I am keen to get hold of the complete data set for 2022-23, and for 2023-24, which I hope will now be available given it is more than a month since the end of the academic year. I enclose the data set from last year, so you could see what format I would like to receive the data.

    In summary, could I please find out for 2022-23 and 2023-24:

    How many UKRI-funded PhD students commenced their studies in 2022-23, and 2023-24 respectively.

    Please state how many of these were international students – giving separate figures for EU and non EU students, and how many were UK students.

    Please provide this data for UKRI but also for each research council.

    Published: 13 January 2025

  6. FOI2024/00836: National Interdisciplinary Climate Change Research Centre

    Request Received: 18 September 2024

    Clarification Received: 30 October 2024

    I would like to request access to any documents retained/archived by the Natural Environment Research Council covering the period 1998 to 2000 pertaining to the decision to establish a new national interdisciplinary climate change research centre and to do so through an open competition amongst UK higher education institutions. (This centre was eventually established in 2000 as the Tyndall Centre, based at the University of East Anglia (UEA)). I believe Sir John Krebbs was chief executive of NERC at the time.

    These documents, including minutes or relevant meetings, might include the following:

    • Allocation of funding to such a centre, in relation to ongoing and new Government allocations

    • Decision to collaborate with the EPSRC and ESRC in supporting the competition

    • The terms of reference for the new centre (the open competition for the centre was announced in about May 1999)

    • The constitution of the expert evaluation panel commissioned to review proposals (this panel sat between summer 1999 and March 2000)

    • The recommendations of the evaluation panel in both Phase 1 (to decide on short-list) and Phase 2 (to decide on the winner) of the competition.

    Published: 13 January 2025

  7. FOI2024/01111: One Plus Fellowship % FTE Data

    Request Received: 18 November 2024

    I am doing an analysis on Open (Plus) Fellowships success rates over the last 4 years, looking in particular at the % FTE of successful applicants, and was wondering whether you might be able to share this sort of (anonymised of course) data with me.

    I appreciate that the scheme in its current form is coming to an end soon, but I am hoping that this information might still be relevant in future.

    Published: 13 January 2025

  8. FOI2024/01009: Annexes to Transforming Food Production report

    Request received: 23 October 2024

    This Innovate UK document, https://www.ukri.org/publications/transforming-food-production-final-evaluation-report/ makes the following statement:

    "The report is supported by a series of annexes in a separate document. This includes more detail on the programme and evaluation methodology, stakeholders consulted for the evaluation, additional analysis of Beauhurst and survey data, and summary technology statements."

    Could I please request that the annexes are made available to me for the purposes of my research?

    Published: 7 January 2025

  9. FOI2024/01001: Animal Use at MRC Harwell Biological Services & Laboratory of Molecular Biology

    Request Received: 22 November 2024

    For the years 2022 and 2023, re Animal Use under ASPA 1986 under the Establishment Licence for MRC Harwell Biological Services and MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

    1) May I have the number of scientific procedures undertaken and split between species during each year.

    2) For each year could you please provide a numerical breakdown of the severity classification for procedures carried out. Please split between sub threshold, mild, moderate, severe and non recovery. These will be the figures provided by project licence holders in the annual returns to the Home Office.

    3) Please can you tell me the number and species of animals, that were killed without being used for regulated procedures? This is for years 2022 and 2023, since leaving the EU these are not required to be included on the annual returns so if you do not have these then please I can I have the figure for the last year it was legally required i.e. 2017 as below.

    To be clear these would be the figures last published in 2017 re Additional statistics on breeding and genotyping of animals for scientific procedures, Great Britain 2017, under EU Directive (2010/63/EU). https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/additional-statistics-on-breeding-and-genotyping-of-animals-for-scientific-procedures-great-britain-2017

    4) Were any animals rehomed in 2022 or 2023? If so, please may I have their number and species.

    5) Do you annually reconcile the statistics each project licence holder compiles for the annual returns to the data the Establishment separately collects?

    6) Can you please tell me for each year how many project licences the Animal Welfare Ethical Review Body (AWERB) for your Establishment reviewed and decided to prevent them continuing for Home Office approval, this may be because for instance they identified a New Approach Methodology that could be used instead of animals.

    If any of this data is already published on your website, please can you direct me to the URL.

    Published: 7 January 2025

  10. FOI2024/01030: Follow up to FOI2024/00885 - PSF Table Output

    Request Received: 1 November 2024

    Thank you for your response to FOI2024/00885.

    In the R code supplied, there is the following line of code.  

    # Outputting PSF table to SQL databse   dbWriteTable(Connection,paste0(FR,"-",FR+1-2000,"/PSF"),PSF)

    I'd like to further request a copy of the final outputted PSF table, supplied as a .csv file.

    Published: 7 January 2025