About
The UK invests billions of pounds in research every year — through government agencies like UKRI and NIHR, and through charitable organisations like the Wellcome Trust and Cancer Research UK. This research shapes everything from new cancer treatments to climate solutions to the apps on your phone.
But the details of this incredible work are spread across technical databases, written in academic language that most people never get to explore. This project changes that.
UK Research Grants takes publicly available grant data, translates it into plain English, and organises it into topics that make sense to non-specialists. You can browse by topic, search for specific research, or see grants led by UK-based recipient organisations.
On this site, grants is the umbrella navigation term for two clearly labelled record types: funded awards and NIHR-supported projects. NIHR-supported projects describe support from a research centre; they are kept separate from award counts and funding totals because they are not additional funding awards.
How it works
We collect grant data from UKRI's Gateway to Research, the NIHR Open Data portal, Europe PMC charity records, and the European Commission's CORDIS database for UK-involved Horizon projects. For a subset of records with substantive abstracts, we have used AI (DeepSeek V3) to prepare accepted, clearly labelled plain-English summaries. We organise grants into 29 topics grouped into 6 fields by comparing the meaning of each title and available abstract with curated examples for every topic. Historic assignments are locked between routine updates, with reviewed corrections kept as durable decisions.
The site is published as a dated snapshot rather than a live view of each source. Source downloads are taken at different times and the intended refresh cycle is quarterly. AI-generated summaries are clearly marked, and we encourage you to report any inaccuracies you find.
Who built this
This is a project by Magenti Methodologies, a research intelligence consultancy that helps funders and research organisations make sense of data.