Freedom of information (FOI) releases from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
This is a disclosure log of UK Research and Innovation's responses to freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) requests that might be of wider public interest.
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1,058 disclosures
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Request Received: 16 April 2023
I am looking to find applicant diversity data on the UKRI Future Leaders scheme. I have viewed the data available at https://www.ukri.org/publications/future-leaders-fellowships-outcomes-and-edi-data/, but this does not appear to provide data broken down to rejection/success at the interview stage. Given the importance of the interview process in these applications I am keen to be able to see relevant data from rounds 1-6.
Would you be able to share with me this information, or give me links to the relevant pages on your website in case I have missed something?
Published: 1 August 2023
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Request Received: 5 May 2023
Most recent pay award percentage for Band X employees at UKRI
Published: 1 August 2023
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Request Received: 25 April 2023
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request information regarding temporary labour usage in your organisation, including contractors, temporary workers, and freelancers.
Please can you provide me with the following information for the most recent complete fiscal year:
• Total number of temporary workers engaged by your organisation, broken down by department or function, if possible.
• Total annual expenditure on temporary workers, including a breakdown of costs by department or function, if possible.
• Total number of agency suppliers (Preferred Suppliers/non-Preferred Suppliers) in your organisation's labour supply chain
Details of any existing Managed Service Programme or Provider (MSP) and/or Vendor Management System (VMS) used to manage temporary workers:
• Name of the MSP and VMS
• Date the contract was awarded
• Date of contract expiration
• Name of the government procurement framework through which the MSP and VMS were procured.
Details of any upcoming retendering or renewal processes related to your MSP and VMS contracts:
• Anticipated date for the retendering or renewal process to commence.
• Name and contact information of the person responsible for overseeing the retendering or renewal process.
Published: 1 August 2023
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Request Received: 7 March 2023
I am enquiring whether UKRI holds data on the representation of ethnic minorities, disabled people and age & gender breakdown of funding panel committee members across the 7 research councils and pan-UKRI funds for the last 5 years?
Published: 1 August 2023
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Request Received: 3 April 2023
Please may I make a freedom of information request to receive, on behalf of the CENTA2 DTP, the diversity data for all the NERC REP placements in 2021 and 2022. I would like to receive this electronically to my email address above.
Published: 1 August 2023
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Request Received: 28 April 2023
Apologies for an email out of the blue but I'm writing at the suggestion of the SFC. As you'll see from my initial enquiry below, I am hoping it might be possible to have brief information about what proportion of GCRF funding was allocated to PIs in the discipline of English. SFC didn't have this information and suggested I contact UKRI.
Further details are in the text below, and I would be very grateful if you were able to forward this to an appropriate colleague. Here is the initial enquiry:
'I wonder if I could please ask for a piece of information about the way in which GCRF funding was awarded by discipline? I was fortunate to receive funding for a collaboration with the National University of Samoa from 2018 and, although my work is interdisciplinary, my home discipline is English: specifically, may I ask what percentage of GCRF awards during that year (and to date) have been awarded to PIs in English?
Published: 1 August 2023
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Request Received: 25 April 2023
•The duration of time utilising cloud infrastructure.
•The criteria used to choose a cloud provider.
•The percentage of infrastructures employing cloud services.
•The supplier of cloud infrastructures used (AWS/Oracle/Azure etc.)
•Case studies highlighting the successful implementation of the 'Cloud-first' strategy.
•The uptime of the cloud infrastructure.
•The annual budget over the last five years for IT-managed services
•Please provide the percentage spent on cloud-managed services
Clarification received: 9 May 2023
We would like to know the information that revolves around all cloud infrastructures.
What I mean by the phrase 'cloud infrastructure' is the underlying technology and resources allowing cloud-based services to be delivered, such as servers, storage, databases, networking, and software applications. Cloud service companies like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform often own and operate this infrastructure.
Published: 1 August 2023
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Request Received: 19 April 2023
I would be very grateful if you could please provide the below information on the Innovate UK Smart Grants: October 2022 funding competition for both:
Stream 1 projects (6-18 months duration, eligible project costs between £100K-£500K), and Stream 2 projects (19-36 months duration, total eligible project costs between £100K-£2M). The information I would like to request is as follows:
1. The total number of applications submitted and
a. the number of those that were assessed (i.e. deemed eligible for funding)
2. The overall number of applications awarded funding and
a. a breakdown of how many of these were first-time applications and
b. how many were resubmissions
3. The total number of applications within each innovation area and the number of those that were successful in each area
4. The average grant request and project size of the applications successfully awarded funding
5. The funding thresholds and average scores of successful applications
6. The percentages of successful applications that were Industrial Research and Experimental Development
7. The number of successful Industrial Research and Experimental Development projects that were (i) single applicant/partner, (ii) 2 partners, (iii) 3+ partner
8. The total funding allocated in this competition round
9. How many projects awarded went to project set up
Published: 1 August 2023
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Request received: 05 May 2023
I kindly request your assistance in providing me with the following information regarding Innovate UK Creative Catalyst 2023 scheme.
1. How many applications total were received?
2. How many were successful?
3. What was the highest score of the application awarded the benefits?
4. What was the lowest score of the application awarded the benefits?
5. In what score range does the most successful application fall?
6. What was the lowest amount of funding granted to a successful application?
7. How many assessors were to assess all the applications submitted?
8. Who were the panelist assessors?
9. What type of experience or educational background panelists had?
10. If you are able to share some of the panelist profiles?
Published: 1 August 2023
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Request received: 10 May 2023
Under the Freedom of Information Act, could you please provide me with the below information relating to STFC's summer placements for undergraduate students in Science and Technology, separately for each of the years 2019-2023 and separately also for each of RAL, Daresbury Laboratory and UK Astronomy technology centre (meaning, 2019 RAL, 2020 RAL, 2021 RAL, 2022 RAL, 2023 RAL, same for the other two centres).
Please limit the numbers to undergraduates who obtained their school qualifications at a UK educational institution.
- Number of applicants who obtained A levels/IB at a maintained/state school ('state school applicants')- Number of applicants who obtained A levels/IB at an independent/ private school ('private school applicants')
- Number of state school applicants who received an offer for a summer placement
- Number of private school applicants who received an offer for a summer placement
Do you take type of school attended into consideration in decisions whether to make an offer for a summer placement? If so, whichPublished: 1 August 2023