{"id":245629,"date":"2017-08-29T14:51:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T17:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=245629\/"},"modified":"2017-09-08T16:01:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T19:01:11","slug":"a-chief-for-british-research-super-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/a-chief-for-british-research-super-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"A chief for British research super-agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_245630\" style=\"max-width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/012-017_notas_253-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-245630\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/012-017_notas_253-8-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">L\u00e9o Ramos Chaves  <\/span><\/a> Immunologist Mark Walport will head UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), currently being formed<span class=\"media-credits\">L\u00e9o Ramos Chaves  <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The British government has chosen immunologist Mark Walport, currently Chief Scientific Advisor of the United Kingdom, to head UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the new science and technology funding agency with an annual budget of \u00a36 billion, beginning in 2018. The \u201csuper-agency,\u201d which is currently being formed, was proposed two years ago by biochemist Paul Nurse, 2001 winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine and president of the Royal Society from 2010 to 2015. Its mission is to centralize the activities of nine research support institutions, including the seven Research Councils UK (RCUK). The British research funding system \u201coperates extremely well. But the system at the moment doesn\u2019t provide a single voice,\u201d Walport told the journal <em>Nature<\/em>. The creation of UKRI requires approval by the UK Parliament. The choice of Walport was met with approval by much of the British scientific community, but it also drew some criticism. Astronomer Martin Rees, past president of the Royal Society, said that as scientific adviser, Walport was a strong proponent of \u201ca more monolithic structure\u201d for science funding. According to an editorial in <em>Nature<\/em>, in addition to concerns about consolidation of the research councils, there is fear of government interference at agencies currently enjoying autonomy. \u201cI\u2019ve never been a proponent of something monolithic,\u201d Walport said, pointing out that present-day agencies will not lose their autonomy. \u201cThe idea is that, working together, the whole will be greater than the sum of its parts.\u201d As adviser, Walport has visited S\u00e3o Paulo twice, in May 2014 and April 2016, participating in a FAPESP event on the latter occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Walport to head new science and technology funding agency","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[234],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-245629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-finance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245629"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=245629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}