Guidance

UKRI list of approved research organisations

Updated 21 August 2024

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Approved research organisations

UKRI accepts these UK organisations are able to employ or host an applicant who holds, or provides critical contributions to work supported by, an award or grant from an endorsed funder:

  • Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC)
  • Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC)
  • Advanced Research and Invention Agency
  • Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board
  • Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute
  • Agritech UK
  • Alan Turing Institute
  • All NHS Trusts, Hospitals, Boards and GP Practises
  • All UK Higher education institutions
  • Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA)
  • Anthony Nolan
  • Armagh Observatory
  • Arts Council England
  • Arts Council Wales
  • Atomic Weapons Establishment
  • Babraham Institute
  • Beatson Institute for Cancer Research
  • BirdLife International
  • British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
  • British Film Institute
  • British Institute of International and Comparative Law
  • British Library
  • British Museum
  • British Trust for Ornithology
  • Building Research Establishment Ltd (BRE)
  • Butterfly Conservation
  • CPI
  • CAB International
  • Cadw
  • Cambridge Arctic Shelf Programme
  • Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
  • Campden BRI
  • Catapults:
    • Cell and Gene Therapy
    • Compound Semiconductor Applications
    • Connected Places
    • Digital, Energy Systems
    • Medicines Discovery
    • Offshore Renewable Energy
    • Satellite Applications
    • the seven centres of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult
  • CCFE/UKAEA
  • Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas)
  • CERN
  • Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs)
  • Clinical Practice Research Datalink (subsidiary of MHRA)
  • Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
  • Diamond Light Source Ltd
  • Earlham Institute
  • Earthwatch Institute
  • EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute
  • English Heritage
  • Environment Agency
  • European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC)
  • European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF)
  • FERA Science Ltd
  • FloWave
  • Forest Research
  • Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd
  • Genomics England
  • Glass Futures
  • Health and Safety Executive
  • Health Data Research UK (HDR UK)
  • Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England
  • Historic Environment Scotland
  • Historic Royal Palaces
  • HR Wallingford Group Ltd
  • UK Hydrographic Office
  • Imperial War Museum
  • Institute for Fiscal Studies
  • Institute of Development Studies
  • Institute of Occupational Medicine
  • Instruct-ERIC
  • Intellectual Property Office
  • International Institute for Environment and Development
  • Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes
  • John Innes Centre
  • Joint Astronomy Centre
  • Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
  • LGC Ltd[footnote 1]
  • London Institute of Mathematical Sciences (LIMS)
  • Malaria Consortium (UK)
  • Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC)
  • Marine Biological Association
  • Marine Management Organisation
  • Marine Scotland Science
  • Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
  • Moredun Research Institute
  • MRC Centre for Macaques
  • MRC Harwell Institute
  • MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
  • MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
  • Museum of London Archaeology
  • National Archives
  • National Botanic Garden of Wales
  • National Centre for Social Research
  • National Composites Centre
  • National Engineering Laboratory
  • National Foundation for Educational Research
  • National Galleries of Scotland
  • National Gallery
  • National Innovation Centre for Ageing (NICA)
  • National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC subsidiary of MHRA)
  • National Institute of Agricultural Botany
  • National Institute of Economic and Social Research
  • National Institute of Health and Care Excellence
  • National Library of Scotland
  • National Library of Wales
  • National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS)
  • National Maritime Museum
  • National Museum Wales
  • National Museums Liverpool
  • National Museums of Scotland
  • National Nuclear Laboratory
  • National Physical Laboratory
  • National Portrait Gallery
  • Natural England
  • Natural History Museum
  • Natural Resources Wales
  • NERC British Antarctic Survey
  • NERC British Geological Survey
  • NERC National Centre for Atmospheric Science
  • NERC National Centre for Earth Observation
  • NERC National Oceanography Centre
  • NERC UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
  • Nesta
  • Net Zero Technology Centre
  • Northern Ireland Environment Agency
  • Nuclear AMRC
  • Office of Health Economics (OHE)
  • Office for National Statistics (ONS)
  • Ordnance Survey
  • Organic Research Centre
  • Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
  • Plymouth Marine Laboratory
  • Public Health Wales
  • Quadram Institute Bioscience
  • RAND Europe Community Interest Company
  • Rosalind Franklin Institute
  • Rothamsted Research
  • Royal Armouries
  • Royal Botanic Gardens - Edinburgh
  • Royal Botanic Gardens - Kew
  • Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales
  • Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
  • Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies
  • Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture
  • Science Museum Group
  • Scottish Association for Marine Sciences
  • Scottish Environment Protection Agency
  • Sightsavers
  • Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science
  • Sir John Soane’s Museum
  • Smith Institute (www.smithinst.co.uk)
  • Sport England
  • Sport Wales
  • STFC - Laboratories
  • Tate
  • Tavistock Institute of Human Relations
  • The Aga Khan University (International) in the United Kingdom
  • The Faraday Institution
  • The Francis Crick Institute
  • The James Hutton Institute
  • The Met Office
  • The National Trust
  • The Pirbright Institute
  • The Resolution Foundation
  • The Sainsbury Laboratory
  • The Square Kilometre Array Organisation (SKA)
  • The Welding Institute
  • Transport Research Laboratory Limited
  • UK Astronomy Technology Centre
  • UK Biobank
  • UK Dementia Research Institute
  • UK Health Security Agency
  • UK Space Agency
  • Unlimit Health
  • Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD)
  • Victoria and Albert Museum
  • Wallace Collection
  • Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
  • World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC)
  • Young Foundation
  • Zoological Society of London, Institute of Zoology

  1. LGC Ltd (formerly Laboratory of Government Chemist) including the National Measurement Laboratory for Chemical and Biological Measurements, Office of the Government Chemist, and MHRA’s Official Medicines Control Laboratory (OMCL) for chemical testing and the British Pharmacopoeia (BP) Commission Laboratory. ↩

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