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RCUK Reports


These publications report on our past and future performance and contain information on how we are delivering our objectives. The reports within this area also focus on the outputs from research and how we achieve Excellence with Impact.

Archived versions of these documents can be found in the publications archive area. This section also contains the RCUK Impacts series of reports.


  • Supporting a UK success story: The impact of university research and sport development
    This report highlights just some of the many ways in which research has helped Team GB limber up and prepare for London 2012.
    2 May 2012

  • RCUK Impact Report 2011
    This report details the various activities through which the Research Councils are working together to achieve greater impact.
    4 Jan 2012

  • Timelines
    These timelines depict how UK research has contributed to many of the most important discoveries and developments which inform and shape our world today as well as international partnerships and achievements.
    25 Nov 2011

  • Analysis of Researcher Development Reports 2011
    This analysis summarises responses to RCUK’s 2011 survey of research organisations (ROs) regarding the impact of Roberts funding to date.
    19 Sep 2011

  • Big Ideas for the Future report
    Big Ideas for the Future looks at 100 ground breaking pieces of research from all fields, including science, social sciences, engineering and the arts and the humanities.
    16 Jun 2011

  • Independent assessment of progress implementing recommendations of ‘Roberts’ Review
    In 2010 RCUK tasked an expert Panel led by Professor Alison Hodge MBE to consider the progress made in implementing the recommendations related to researchers skills and career development made by Sir Gareth Roberts.
    13 Jan 2011

  • Business Plan Competition
    The Research Councils Business Plan Competition was set up to help researchers turn great research into great businesses.
    4 Dec 2010

  • User Satisfaction Survey
    In summer 2010 Research Councils UK (RCUK) commissioned Ipsos MORI to undertake its second User Satisfaction Survey.
    10 Nov 2010

  • Beacons for Public Engagement
    An independent review of the Beacons for Public Engagement, carried out by People Science and Policy.
    15 Oct 2010

  • Research for our Future: UK business success through public investment in research
    Research Councils UK (RCUK) believes that strategic delivery of focused research programmes, alongside nurturing innovative basic research, is the key to fostering economic recovery, ultimately placing the UK in a position of leadership on the world stage of research and innovation.
    12 Oct 2010

  • Together transforming research into innovation
    The Technology Strategy Board, since its establishment as a standalone organisation in 2007, has been working in close partnership with the Research Councils. To meet the challenges ahead, the UK needs to translate excellent research into innovative products and services.
    7 Oct 2010

  • RCUK Review of Energy 2010
    This review is organised by the EPSRC on behalf of all UK Research Councils and in conjunction with the learned societies to provide an independent assessment of the quality and impact of the UK programme.
    27 May 2010

  • Absorbing Research, The Role of University Research in Business and Market Innovation
    This report which investigates the valuable contribution of university research to market innovation with recommendations to improve university-business collaboration.
    24 May 2010

  • CIHE Report on Value of Graduates and Postgraduates
    Investment in higher education brings expected economic benefits to employers, the economy and individuals. But, while much is talked about the contribution and value of higher education to the UK’s economic success.
    9 Feb 2010

  • Sustainability of the UK research workforce
    A report on the sustainability of the UK research workforce. The report aims to ensure that the 'supply chain' of researchers across different disciplines is effectively managed, so that overall research requirements and strategy within the UK are supported.
    17 Dec 2009

  • Review of the Impact of Full Economic Costing on the HEI sector
    The RCUK commissioned review of the implementation of full economic costs (fEC) for funding university research.
    7 May 2009

  • Health of Disciplines: Annual Report
    This second annual report builds on the initial analysis, bringing together findings from a variety of sources and drawing on knowledge from the Research Councils.
    27 Mar 2008