Significant increases to the recurrent excellence-driven research funding awarded to England’s modern universities will be crucial for leveraging additional private investment and winning important arguments over the future of these institutions, sector leaders have insisted.
Among the biggest winners from the latest allocations of quality-related (QR) grant funding – the first to use results from the 2021 Research Excellence Framework – are several post-92 universities whose annual awards will, in some cases, double or even treble: Northumbria University’s QR funding will increase from just under to £7 million to more than £18 million in total from 2022-23, while Manchester Metropolitan University’s share will double to £12.7 million.
