
The Skills Opportunity
Creating a high skill and innovative economy is crucial to driving the UK’s future economic prosperity, with science, research and innovation central to this. Research and innovation can help solve global challenges, create new careers, and generate world-changing technologies.
We published a report in June 2023 as part of a project looking at the skills needs of a more research intensive UK. Ensuring that the UK has the skills to meet the requirements of a more R&D-intensive economy is a vital component of the UK Government’s ambitions to make the UK more research-intensive. Wider skills provision will be needed to meet the requirements of an expanding R&D sector, and ensure that everyone can participate in and benefit from a more innovative UK.

As part of this work, we also conducted a series of roundtables with stakeholders across the research and innovation landscape to explore different areas of skills provision – you can read the write ups of these discussions below.
An unattributed summary of the roundtable co-hosted by Vialto Partners and the Campaign for Science and Engineering on Monday 31st October 2022.
An unattributed summary of the roundtable co-hosted by the Campaign for Science and Engineering and the Open University on Wednesday 7th December 2022
An unattributed summary of the roundtable co-hosted by Glasgow Science Centre and the Campaign for Science and Engineering in November 2022.
An unattributed summary of the roundtable co-hosted by CaSE and the Gatsby Foundation on Wednesday 22nd February 2023
CaSE members came together at Diamond Light Source last month, to discuss our recent work on the skills needs for a more research-intensive UK.
This report sets out some of the challenges for education and skills provision across the UK, and calls on government to support an integrated skills system.
Discover all of our work on People and Skills
