Public Attitudes to R&D 2025

This report details the results of CaSE’s major research study, Public Attitudes to R&D 2025. It builds on the extensive public attitudes research CaSE has carried out since 2022, and is the first of a formal tracker survey that will be repeated every three years. This will allow the R&D sector to track and respond to changes in public attitudes over time.

CaSE thanks the many organisations and individuals who participated in workshops to shape the topics explored in the quantitative and qualitative research.

We also thank Phil Downing at Icaro for leading the study, along with the teams at Deltapoll and Brook Lyndhurst, and moderators of the focus group sessions. Finally, we want to recognise the contributions of the survey respondents and focus group participants who we engaged through this process.

This work was funded by a grant from Wellcome (318810/Z/24/Z).