Opinion

These cuts to physics research will be a disaster for UK scientists – and for our standing in the world

If plans by the UK’s science funding body go ahead, we won’t be able to benefit from Britain’s membership of Cern and other large international projects, says Jon Butterworth, professor of physics at ...

UK physicists raise alarm over planned funding cuts

The planned cuts come as UK Research and Innovation, the umbrella funding body, pushes through a strategic shift to spend more on government priority sectors such as life sciences. The agency plans to ...
Opinion

Funding cuts will devastate the next generation of scientists

Letters: Physics research drives technological innovation, from medical imaging to data processing, write Dr Phil Bull and Prof Chris Clarkson; plus letters from Tim Gershon and Vincenzo Vagnoni, and ...

UK's £8bn research fund faces 'hard decisions' as it pauses new grants

The boss of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the public body which spends £8bn of taxpayer money each year on research and ...
Chemistry World

Opaque UK funding changes herald cuts to facilities and research programmes paused

Projects face withdrawals and delays as UKRI prioritises economic growth and applied research over curiosity-driven areas ...
Nature

Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)

Numerical information only (in the tables above) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International. Universities are under pressure, from declines in student ...

UK government proposes 30% budget cut to astronomy and physics research: 'It's pretty disastrous'

The UK government is to slash by 30 percent its funding for astronomy, particle and nuclear physics in a move branded as ...
Nature

Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)

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