Analysis & publications

Ahead of the 2016 election in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, CaSE wrote to party leaders inviting them to set out how they would support science and engineering if elected in May.

A review of science and engineering in the Scotland 2016 Election

A review of science and engineering in the Northern Ireland 2016 Election

A review of science and engineering in the Wales 2016 Election

Naomi Weir takes a look at the Innovate UK delivery plan and crunches the numbers.

CaSE Director Dr Sarah Main gives an update on the proposed anti-lobbying clause in government grants, due to be implemented by 1st May 2016.

Last week saw the latest data release of the UK Gross domestic expenditure on research and development. This provides estimates of R&D in Business Enterprise, Higher Education, Government, which includes Research Councils, and Private Non-Profit organisations for 2014.

CaSE takes a look at the government’s reforms to the skilled worker visa (Tier 2), following a review of the route by the Migration Advisory Committee.

Read a summary of the cross party science debate in the Scottish Parliament by Simon Jennings, Director of Strategy & Policy at the University of Strathclyde and Board member.

Following consultation with our members, CaSE responded to Lord Stern’s review of the Research Excellence Framework.

The Chancellor is due to deliver his second budget of this Parliament tomorrow. Here, we take a look at some of what we’ve learnt from the Spending Review and the recent BIS allocations as well as some of the questions that remain outstanding.

The National Audit Office (NAO) last week published a report on BIS’s capital investments in science projects.