UKRI’s vision is for an outstanding research and innovation system that gives everyone the opportunity to contribute and to benefit, enriching lives locally, nationally and internationally. Achieving this vision requires a significant shift in how we, as the research and innovation community, think about engagement, and indeed how we think about research and innovation. We need to move from research and innovation and society to research and innovation in society.
Join us at this panel event to hear UKRI CEO Ottoline Leyser, Ben Ward, CEO of Winchester Science centre, Dr Kathryn Townsend-Woods, LifeLab Programme Manager and Rob Kurn, Southampton Voluntary Services, discuss the importance of thinking in new ways about the relationship between research and society.
In the panel discussion Professor Dame Ottoline and guests will discuss how members of society can successfully engage in the research process. The panel discussion will be chaired by Professor John Holloway (Associate Vice-President, Interdisciplinary Research, University of Southampton). Attendees will have the opportunity to ask the panellists questions on public engagement and societal participation in research.
Attendees will be able to participate in person or virtually.
UKRI and our strategy
UKRI is the UK’s largest public funder of research and innovation, investing more than £8 billion each year. We bring together expertise across all disciplines and sectors to advance our understanding of society and the world around us, and to capture and deliver value from knowledge and ideas. Our strategy will catalyse an outstanding research and innovation system in the UK that gives everyone the opportunity to contribute and benefit, enriching lives locally, nationally and globally.
Research and innovation are central to tackling the biggest challenges we face such as:
- post-pandemic recovery,
- addressing climate change and achieving Net Zero and
- building a vibrant knowledge economy that benefits the whole of the UK.
We cannot achieve the above ambitions without the input, engagement, and partnership of society.
