The grant will support an ambitious 5-year programme to produce high-quality data and practical tools for all R&D organisations to use. It will also allow CaSE to evolve our own advocacy activities and integrate public opinion insights into the heart of our work.
This programme of work will capitalise on the highly successful Discovery Decade programme, which has demonstrated the value of public opinion insights in R&D advocacy, including through CaSE’s work around the 2024 General Election.
This grant signals an exciting new chapter for CaSE and its role supporting the sector – one which builds on CaSE’s four-decades of experience, and which fully integrates a public dimension to our advocacy work.
Commenting on the award of the grant:
Our sector has a responsibility to make R&D matter to more people across society. By engaging and understanding the public we can make our messages about the importance of R&D more compelling, and ensure political audiences are aware of public interests.
Being awarded this grant is a very exciting milestone for CaSE and reflects the hugely positive impact our public opinion work has had to date. I would like to thank Wellcome for their continued support, and for making this work possible.
Dr Alicia Greated
Executive Director, CaSE
The public must feel connected to research and policymakers must be well informed to make the long-term decisions that will help to achieve a healthier future for everyone. After the success of their Wellcome funded Discovery Decade programme, we are delighted to continue supporting CaSE and their work to put public opinion at the heart of R&D.
Martin Smith
Head of Policy Lab at Wellcome
To make R&D matter to more people and position it as a national mission, we must reimagine the relationship between R&D, the public, and politicians.
This funding allows CaSE to expand our efforts to help R&D organisations forge a new partnership with the public. If we succeed, the public will have a greater sense of agency and connection with a sector that feels more human and local. And politicians will see R&D as an issue with sustained public interest and a democratic mandate for difficult, long-term decisions.
Dr Ben Bleasdale
Director, Discovery Decade Programme, CaSE
About CaSE
The Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE) is a charity that works to put science and engineering at the heart of the UK’s future. The UK’s leading advocacy group for science and engineering, our membership spans over 100 scientific organisations, including businesses, universities, learned societies and charities, as well as individual scientists and engineers. Collectively our members employ over 336,000 people in the UK, and our industry and charity members invest around £32.2bn a year globally in R&D.
We collaborate with our members, partners and the public to lend our clear, expert voice to decisions about science and engineering. We specialise in developing non-partisan, responsive solutions that help research and innovation to thrive in ways that improve people’s lives and livelihoods.
Charity number: 1147492. Company number: 7807252.
About Wellcome
Wellcome supports science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone. We support discovery research into life, health and wellbeing, and we’re taking on three worldwide health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.
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