Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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UKRI’s strategy sets out our priorities for boosting research and innovation across the UK. In this video, Stian Westlake, ESRC Executive Chair, outlines the strategy’s goals and how they will be delivered. He explains our commitment to support curiosity-driven research, deliver societal and government priorities, help businesses start and scale, and invest in infrastructure and people.

Stian highlights the importance of the new strategy for social science, explaining how support for social science research and infrastructure is essential to delivering on societal and industrial strategy challenges. He also describes some of the ways we will measure the strategy’s success and impact.

View the strategy here: ukri.org/publications/uk-research-and-innovation-strategy-2026-to-2031

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