Funder’s rolling data shows which institutions have won the most grants—and money—so far
The UK’s national research funding agency, UK Research and Innovation, has invested £185 million in Covid-19 research and innovation through various calls and repurposing of grants.
UKRI has now published an “initial summary” that lists projects already supported, “so potential bidders to UKRI calls and programmes can review the list before submitting their proposals”.
The funder says it will update the list weekly, and it currently lists around 530 projects, including 200 led by private companies, and the rest by universities and other research institutions. Of the latter, most projects, 69 of them, are led by various units and centres of the Medical Research Councils.
The summary lists funding amounts for most, but not all of the 530 or so projects, totalling around £135m.
The graphs below cover the top institutions in terms of number of grants won, the total amount of funding won, and the institutions that won the ten largest individual grants. Figures are based on the available data listed by UKRI, so may not be exhaustive, and exclude the grants held by various MRC units and centres, some of which are at universities.
For universities, Oxford leads the pack in grants won, with 18 grants.
In terms of total funding, UCL is in the lead.
Of the ten largest grants, UCL and Imperial claimed the most.
The image at the top of this story shows a cloud of the most commonly used words in the titles of the winning projects.