£4M to attract ‘world’s best’ to support Cardiff research
Cardiff University has secured over £4M to attract the world’s best research minds to Wales.
The funding, part of UKRI’s £54M Global Talent Fund, is designed to support the UK’s leading research-intensive universities to attract outstanding international researchers and research teams from across the globe.
Cardiff is the only university in Wales to benefit from the fund alongside 12 other UK universities, including Oxford and Cambridge. The funds will be distributed evenly amongst the 12 successful research organisations over the next five years.
Endorsement
Cardiff University’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Wendy Larner said: “We are delighted to have secured this funding to help us attract the world’s best minds to Cardiff and Wales.
“It is a clear endorsement of our standing and place in the UK research community and sends a clear message that we are well-positioned to attract global talent. It will enable us to support more of the world’s leading academics in Wales – helping to further boost our research capacity and global reputation in key research areas.”
Cardiff University is already home to some of the world’s leading international academic talent, fostering a richly diverse and globally engaged learning environment that thrives on international collaboration.
High growth sectors
The funding will target researchers working in some of the eight high growth-potential sectors aligned to the UK Government’s recently published Industrial Strategy.
Cardiff University’s Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research, Innovation, and Enterprise, Professor Roger Whitaker added: “This is a unique opportunity to attract global talent in areas where Cardiff has distinctive strengths. The funding will accelerate both international research connectivity and delivery of UK Government’s Industrial Strategy.
“Our academic community is already undertaking highly relevant world-leading research across all our Colleges, including neuroscience, dementia research, and other key areas. We will further support and build teams through strategic use of these important funds, while also enhancing our international research culture and profile for Wales and the UK.”
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Well, congratulations to Cardiff.
UK government though should look how this stacks up against other countries. For example Germany already offers 2.5m per individual to move there and collaborate with a Fraunhofer, and is about to expand this massively. Other countries have very attractive offerings as well eg Switzerland, Sweden. UK should stop trying to do these sort of things on the cheap; if it wants to be the best in the world, they need to throw 10 to 20 times more money to attract the best
“Our academic community is already undertaking highly relevant world-leading research across all our Colleges…” Yet Cardiff University has an appalling patent filing rate; it’s not IP unless it is patented.
Correct. If it’s not patented it didn’t happen.
The research ‘happened alright’ or will happen; just that if there are no patent(s) filed then any Tom, Dick, or Harry can copy it, reduce it to practice, import or export the technology without infringing the ‘IP’ which can lead to opportunity cost in terms of potential job loss/creation and increased/lack of prosperity for Wales. It’s not IP UNLESS it is patented.
Good luck to them! I’m genuinely curious to see how they plan to attract (and retain) talents after the sheer mess they’ve made over the past few months. It’ll be interesting to watch how they spin things moving forward.