Researchers are being encouraged to “prove” that the Global Challenges Research Fund is having an impact, to ensure its future beyond 2021, its final year.
Mark Claydon-Smith, the fund’s programme manager, said that researchers must think about how to ensure its renewal. “With something of this scale, if we just do it for five years it will achieve very little. We need to think of this as a decade project,” he told a conference on 23 November.
The £1.5-billion fund was conceived so that UK science could take a leading role in addressing the problems of the developing world. It was also intended to compel more collaboration across disciplines. It forms part of the UK’s 0.7 per cent of GDP contribution to Official Development Assistance, the OECD’s indicator of global aid flow.
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