"Physics departments may close and researchers leave the UK. What is happening and why? The alarm comes from changes in the way taxpayers' money is invested by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), which recently published its plan on how to disburse 38.6bn of public research and development funding over the next four years. Change is always unsettling, and as the UKRI's chief executive, Ian Chapman, says, there will always be those who lose out when change happens. Difficult choices must be made."
"These include a nuclear physics collaboration with the US, a powerful microscopy facility at Daresbury and a major UK-led project at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as Cern. My own research in particle physics is funded via the STFC. So is research into astronomy and nuclear physics, as well as large UK multidisciplinary facilities. STFC also takes care of international subscriptions, ranging from our membership of Cern to telescopes, light sources and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory."
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) published a plan to disburse £38.6bn of public research and development funding over the next four years, prompting changes in funding allocations. The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) announced cancellation of several infrastructure-funded projects, including a nuclear physics collaboration with the US, a powerful microscopy facility at Daresbury and a major UK-led CERN project. STFC manages international subscriptions to CERN, telescopes, light sources and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, links that underpin science diplomacy and national research capacity. A letter announcing cuts to UK-CERN collaborations arrived as Mark Thomson took over as director general of CERN, undermining UK science diplomacy.
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