Independent report

Annex B of the final report: List of stakeholders consulted

Updated 9 February 2024

As listed in the Review’s interim report, the Review was supported by a Challenge Panel and a group of funding organisations throughout its work:

Challenge panel membership

Name	Position, Organisation
Professor Ibrahim Abubakar	Professor in Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Director of the UCL Institute for Global Health, University College London
Dr Tom Bannan	Research Fellow in School of Natural Sciences, University of Manchester
Professor Simon Burgess	Professor of Economics, University of Bristol
Professor Kim Graham	Pro Vice-Chancellor Research, Innovation and Enterprise, Cardiff University
Professor Alex Green	Researcher of Neurocircuitry and Consultant Neurosurgeon at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford
Dr Lisa Mooney	(formerly) Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation, Sheffield Hallam University
Dr Kevin Moreton	Chief Operating Officer, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Professor Marcus Munafo	Professor of Biological Psychology at the School of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol
Dr Angela Obasi	Senior Clinical Lecturer, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Professor John O’Keefe	Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London
Professor Maire O’Neill	Director of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology and Director of the Research Institute in Secure Hardware and Embedded Systems, Queen’s University Belfast
Professor Judith Phillips	Deputy Principal (Research) and Professor of Gerontology, University of Stirling, Research Director, UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge
Dr Clare Taylor	Senior Lecturer in Medical Microbiology in the School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University
Ms Kelly Vere	Director of Technical Skills and Strategy, University of Nottingham

Departments and organisations represented on the group of funders

• Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
• Government Office for Science
• Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Ministry of Defence
• Department of Health and Social Care/National Institute for Health Research
• UK Research and Innovation
• Chief Scientist Office, NHS Scotland
• Scottish Funding Council
• Higher Education Funding Council for Wales
• Department for the Economy, Northern Ireland
• Wellcome
• Association of Medical Research Charities
• Alzheimer’s Research UK
• The Royal Society

Other organisations

In addition, the Review has benefitted from the input of a range of organisations:

• Academy of Medical Sciences

• Advance HE

• Alzheimer’s Research UK

• Animal and Plant Health Agency

• Association of Heads of University Administration

• Association of Medical Research Charities

• Association of Research Managers and Administrators

• Athena Swan

• Atomic Weapons Establishment

• Babraham Institute

• British Dental Association

• British Heart Foundation

• British Medical Association

• British Universities Finance Directors Group

• Cancer Research UK

• Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science

• Connected Places Catapult

• Defence Science and Technology Laboratory

• Department for Education

• Department for Education Northern Ireland

• Earlham Institute

• Environment Agency

• GuildHE

• Health and Safety Executive

• Health Research Authority

• Institute for Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow

• Institute of Physics

• Jacobs

• Jisc

• John Innes Centre

• Joint Nature Conservation Committee

• Kew Gardens

• Kingston Business School 

• London Mathematical Society

• London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

• MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

• Met Office

• Ministry of Defence

• MoreBrains Cooperative

• National Audit Office

• National Nuclear Laboratory

• National Oceanography Centre

• National Physical Laboratory

• Natural England

• Natural History Museum

• Newcastle Hospitals

• NHS Health Research Authority

• NIHR Clinical Research Network

• Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

• Norwich Research Park - Anglia Innovation Partnership

• Office for Students

• Parkinson’s UK

• Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

• Quadram Institute Bioscience

• Rothamsted Research

• Royal Academy of Engineering

• Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

• Royal Society of Biology

• Royal Society of Chemistry

• Russell Group

• Russell Group Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research Group

• Sainsbury Laboratory

• Science Council

• Scotland’s Rural College

• Moredun Research Institute

• Stroke Association

• Technopolis Group

• The British Academy

• The National Institute for Biological Standards and Control

• The Physiological Society

• The Research Organisations Consultation Group (UKRI)

• The National Centre for Universities and Business

• UK Atomic Energy Authority

• UK Clinical Research Collaboration

• UK Computing Research Committee

• UK National Nuclear Laboratory

• UK Research and Innovation

• UK Research Staff Association

• UKRD

• University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust

• V&A Research Institute 

• Vitae

• Worldwide Cancer Research

• Universities UK

• Universities Scotland

• Universities Wales

• University Alliance

Universities

• Aberdeen

• Abertay University

• Aberystwyth University

• Anglia Ruskin University

• Bangor University

• Bath

• Birmingham

• Brighton

• Bristol

• Brunel

• Cambridge

• Cardiff

• Cardiff Metropolitan

• Central Lancashire

• Coventry

• Cranfield

• De Montfort

• Derby

• Dundee

• Durham

• East Anglia

• Edge Hill

• Edinburgh Napier

• Exeter

• Glasgow

• Glasgow Caledonian

• Goldsmiths

• Greenwich

• Hertfordshire

• Hull

• Imperial College London

• King’s College

• Lancaster

• Leeds

• Lincoln

• London South Bank

• Loughborough

• Manchester

• Manchester Metropolitan

• Newcastle

• Northumbria

• Nottingham

• The Open University

• Oxford

• University of Oxford & Queensland University of Technology

• Plymouth

• Portsmouth

• Queen’s Belfast

• Queen Mary London

• Reading

• Salford 

• Sheffield

• Sheffield Hallam University

• Southampton

• St Andrews

• Stirling

• Strathclyde

• Surrey

• Sussex

• UCL

• Ulster

• West of Scotland

• Wales Trinity Saint David

• Warwick 

• Wolverhampton

• York