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Written question asked by John Hayes (Conservative) on Tuesday, 26 March 2024, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 15 April 2024. It was answered by Andrew Griffith (Conservative) on Thursday, 18 April 2024 on behalf of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.


UK Research and Innovation: Colonialism

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how many UK Research and Innovation projects have (a) titles and (b) subjects containing (i) decolonisation, (ii) colonialism, (iii) colonial and (iv) decolonising since 2019.

Answer

These terms are used across a range of research areas and have different meanings, from the humanities and societal sciences, to biological sciences and microbial research.

The following data is sourced from Gateway to Research (https://gtr.ukri.org/), which supplies information about research and innovation projects and organisations funded by UKRI.

Of approximately 37,000 active projects initiated from 2019 onwards: 77 had titles referring to ‘Decolonisation/Decolonising’, 12 had titles referring to ‘Colonialism’ and 61 had titles mentioning the word ‘Colonial’.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
20509
Session
2023-24
Subjects
Colonialism UK Research and Innovation
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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