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. FOI2022/00075: Funding for TORCH (University of Oxford)

    Request Received: 8 March 2022

    Could you provide me with the names and percentage of UK universities with established centres for Research in the Humanities (e.g. TORCH, University of Oxford)?

    Could you provide me with details of funding awarded to TORCH (University of Oxford) by the UKRI or related bodies in the following years:

    2019 - 2020

    2020 - 2021

    2021 - 2022

    2022 - 2023

    Could you provide me with information on the funding outcome to TORCH (university of Oxford)? E.g. Abandoned projects, successful projects, profits made or losses incurred (if available)?

    Finally, I would appreciate any information that supports continued funding for research centres and information that opposes such support.

    Clarification received 15 March 2022

    Please could you clarify what information you are seeking from UKRI as it is not clear what you mean by 'information that supports continued funding for research centres and information that opposes such support'.

    If possible, I would like to know if there have been studies or surveys or any type of quantitative research that promotes the importance of UKRI funding. I am not a researcher, so please bear with my crude example: In 2019, 70% of projects that received UKRI funding were completed.

    Question 4 is the only one I would like to be solved. Your answer to the first three questions sufficed."

    Published: 1 June 2022

  2. FOI2022/00037: Office attendance

    Request Received: 2 February 2022

    Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide me with full answers to the following questions:

    1. How many people, including full-time, part-time and temporary employees, are currently recorded as being based at your main office, either by having a desk or a security pass or any other metric that you use?

    2. Of these, how many were recorded as having entered the building on the following days:

    a. Monday 6th September 2021

    b. Monday 13th December 2021

    c. Monday 24th January 2022

    I am sure that these numbers will be available either by checking how many door security cards were activated on the days in question, however it is also likely that your HR department would, for health and safety reasons, be keeping a tally of how many staff were visiting the office.

    Published: 1 June 2022

  3. FOI2022/00073 Innovate UK application

    Request Received: 2 March 2022

    I wish to make an access request under Article 15 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for a copy of any information you keep about me, on computer or in manual form in relation to [redacted] and my Innovate UK application [redacted]

    Please can you supply me with the outputs of any assessor comments or scores identifiable to this application; and any notes surrounding panel discussions.

    Published: 1 June 2022

  4. FOI2022/00063: Grant Claims/Project Change Requests

    Request Received: 17 February 2022

    1. What is the target time to turn around a grant claim once it's been submitted please?

    2. Is there a target for getting a Project Change Request approved?

    Published: 1 June 2022

  5. FOI2022/00064: Monitoring Officer complaint/anti-bullying policy

    Request Received: 20 February 2022

    1. Please can you advise what the situation is if a project lead makes a complaint about a Monitoring Officer or equivalent.

    2. Does he or she continue to manage the project?

    3. Is there a target about how long it takes to resolve a complaint?

    4. Please could you send me a copy of IUK's anti-bullying policy.

    Published: 1 June 2022

  6. FOI2022/00112: Smart Grants Aug & Oct 2021

    Request Received: 23 March 2022

    I am trying to gain further understanding of the support of Innovate UK by sector in the UK specifically, for competitions which are "Open" - i.e. the present iteration of SMART. Therefore, I am requesting under the Freedom of Information act the following:

    1) For the 2 most recent SMART ROUNDS (Innovate UK Smart Grants: October 2021 ID:1035; Innovate UK Smart Grants: August 2021 ID:963), split by upper (projects >19 months <£2M) and lower stream (projects <18 months <£500K) where possible, a breakdown of total number of applications and successful applications by "Innovation Area" - as selected at point of submission (under Applications details)

    2) If possible a count of "active" reviewers for each of the listed innovation areas.

    3) If (1) is not possible (for example it would take it over the time limit as you would have to log into each application to extract the "innovation area") please can I request instead a list of all Lead Organizations which have applied to each round, split by stream.

    4) If (3) is not possible a breakdown of total number of applications and successful applications by company SIC code (as available from Companies House).

    Published: 31 May 2022

  7. FOI2022/00119: Smart Grants October 2021

    Request Received: 29 March 2022

    For Innovate UK's Smart Grants October 2021 competition (both the <18 month [<£500k] and >18 month streams), please could you release the following information:

    1. The number of applications.

    2. The number of assessed applications.

    3. The number of successful applications.

    4. The success rate.

    5. The minimum successful score.

    6. The maximum successful score.

    7. Maximum score of failed applications.

    8. Average grant fund value per project.

    9. Average score of funded projects.

    10. The score distributions of the applications (e.g. % (or number) of applications which scored <70, 70.1-75, 75.1-80, 80.1-85, 85.1-90, 90.1-95, 95.1-100).

    11. The count of assessed applications by innovation area.

    12. The count of successful projects by innovation area for each strand.

    13. The count of assessed applications by research category (feasibility studies, industrial research, experimental development).

    14. The count of successful projects by research category.

    15. The number of unsuccessful applications, if any, which scored above the minimum funded score.

    Published: 31 May 2022

  8. FOI2022/00147: UKRIs relationship history with Researchfish

    Request received: 19 April 2022

    Please refer to the following news item, a helpful briefing note, published by UKRI:

    https://www.ukri.org/news/ukri-update-on-researchfish/

    There is an aspect of this matter which is not covered therein, namely how it came about that your organisation decided to link up with Researchfish and Interfolio.

    I should be grateful if you would supply me history of this relationship starting with the original genesis of the arrangement - presumably a thread of internal emails and notes of discussions - and continuing to the present time or at least up to the time the relationship became the subject of public comment/controversy.

    Published: 27 May 2022

  9. FOI2022/00150: Recent statement on Researchfish

    Request received: 20 April 2022

    I see you have issued a statement in which "Following some abusive tweets in 2018, UKRI and ResearchFish staff discussed sharing abusive, threatening or offensive tweets so that UKRI could suggest the senders reconsider their language". You have "identified six incidents of tweets being flagged to UKRI over four years".
    Source: https://www.ukri.org/news/ukri-update-on-researchfish/

    Please could you provide:

    1. The emails/minutes/other data held in which "UKRI and ResearchFish staff discussed sharing abusive, threatening or offensive tweets so that UKRI could suggest the senders reconsider their language", which were from 2018

    2. The emails sent from Researchfish to UKRI (or which UKRI were copied in) in these six identified incidents, along with any responses UKRI sent back to Researchfish

    3. The emails UKRI sent to the host institution following receipt of these emails

    Published: 25 May 2022

  10. FOI2022/00060: InnovateUK Monitoring Officers

    Request Received: 20 February 2022

    1. How many Monitoring Officers does IUK currently engage?

    2. What total grant funds do they supervise?

    3. Do Monitoring Officers have to register (a.) their other business and financial interest, and (b.) any conflicts of business and financial interests?

    4. Please publish both registers.

    5. What is the job description and set of ethical responsibilities of Monitoring Officers? Please publish.

    Published: 23 May 2022