Research England is a part of

United Kingdom Research and Innovation UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is a non-departmental public body of the Government of the United Kingdom that directs research and innovation funding, funded through the science budget of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial St ...

(UKRI) that oversees the functions of UKRI in relation to university

research Research is "creativity, creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge". It involves the collection, organization and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular att ...

and knowledge transfer in

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

. This includes: * providing funding to English universities for research and knowledge exchange activities * developing and implementing the

Research Excellence Framework The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is a research impact evaluation of British higher education institutions. It is the successor to the Research Assessment Exercise and it was first used in 2014 to assess the period 2008–2013. REF is under ...

(REF) in partnership with the UK Higher Education funding bodies * developing the Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF) * overseeing the sustainability the

Higher Education Higher education is tertiary education leading to award of an academic degree. Higher education, also called post-secondary education, third-level or tertiary education, is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after completi ...

research base in England * managing the £900 million UK Research Partnership Investment Fund * administering the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF)

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{{UK Research and Innovation Innovation in the United Kingdom Research and development in the United Kingdom

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