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Its head office is in Swindon, Wiltshire in the same building (Polaris House) that houses the AHRC, BBSRC, ESRC, MRC, Natural Environment Research Council, Science and Technology Facilities Council, TSB, Research Councils UK and the UK Space Agency.
BBSRC's head office is at Polaris House [2] in Swindon - the same building as the other councils of UK Research and Innovation, AHRC EPSRC, ESRC, Innovate UK, MRC, NERC, Research England and STFC, as well as the UKSA. Funded by Government, BBSRC invested over £498 million in bioscience in 2017–18.
The council's head office is at Polaris House in Swindon, alongside the other six Research Councils. NERC's research centres provide leadership to the UK environmental science community and play significant and influential roles in international science collaborations.
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is a United Kingdom government agency that carries out research in science and engineering, and funds UK research in areas including particle physics, nuclear physics, space science and astronomy (both ground-based and space-based).
Research Councils UK, sometimes known as RCUK, was a non-departmental public body [1] that coordinated science policy in the United Kingdom from 2002 to 2018. It was an umbrella organisation that coordinated the seven separate research councils [2] that were responsible for funding and coordinating academic research for the arts, humanities, science and engineering.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council: 1994 EPSRC website: £1096M Economic and Social Research Council: 1965 ESRC website: £252M Medical Research Council: 1913 MRC website: £742M Natural Environment Research Council: 1965 NERC website: £444M Science and Technology Facilities Council: 2007 STFC website: £728M Innovate UK: 2007 ...
Formerly Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council. Chilbolton Observatory; Daresbury Laboratory; Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. HM Nautical Almanac Office; Diamond Light Source (86% stake, with the other 14% owned by the Wellcome Trust) UK Astronomy Technology Centre
The ESRC was founded in 1965 as the Social Science Research Council (SSRC – not to be confused with the Social Science Research Council in the United States). The establishment of a state funding body for the social sciences in the United Kingdom, had been under discussion since the Second World War; [1] however, it was not until the 1964 election of Prime Minister Harold Wilson that the ...