UKRI levels up, NERC thinks big, Smithsonian dreams realised

A roundup of this week’s Funding Insight articles

This week, we delve into two major announcements from UK Research and Innovation. First, there’s the funder’s £20 million Local Policy Innovation Partnerships programme, which seeks to address the levelling-up agenda by supporting large projects linking with regional and local policymakers and actors. Second, we find out what the Natural Environment Research Council’s Big Ideas initiative is all about. We also hear from a Smithsonian Institution postdoctoral fellow on how she came to be in her position.

This week in Funding Insight