Martin Smith
Head of Policy Lab, Wellcome. Science policy things, puns, cats
- Chi Onwurah notes a strong alignment between the UK's three 'buckets' for R&D investments and the three 'pillars' of Horizon Europe. On the balance between the buckets - Ian Chapman highlights the contirbution that other govt depts make to Bucket 2 if you were to look beyond UKRI
- .@georgefreemanmp.bsky.social asks Ian Chapman whether the National Science and Technology Council - a UK Cabinet Cttee - is still meeting & if he presents to it? Ian can't answer - but that's because the NSTC was quietly scrapped in November, and no-one has noticed yet www.gov.uk/government/p...
- Cabinet Committees: Before and after Nov 2025, with closest equivalent now being Digital and Technology. Previous Committee was set up to 'consider matters related to science and tech, to drive the UK's economic growth and national security', with wide x-govt attendance.
- Ian Chapman: no move away from applicant-led funding at UKRI. BBSRC funding pause is a temporary - 'a matter of a few weeks' before they move to an always-open system (as at e.g. EPSRC, AHRC). MRC pause will extend to early summer, and then will open again.
