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Based on priorities set out in our Strategic plan, we invest in research on behalf of the UK tax payer. Our research has resulted in life-changing discoveries for over a hundred years. Scientists apply to the MRC for funding for their research and applications are reviewed by panels of independent experts.
The MRC’s mission is to:
Our work ranges from laboratory research, for example on genes and molecules, right through to research with people, such as clinical trials and population studies. Our science is split into six broad areas of research: infections and immunity, molecular and cellular medicine, neurosciences and mental health, population and systems medicine, global health and translational research.
Our research is carried out in universities, hospitals and a network of dedicated establishments across the UK and Africa.
The MRC has always had a strong commitment to equalities. We recognise that an organisation’s success and competitiveness depends on its ability to embrace diversity and draw on the skills, understanding and experience of its people. The potential rewards of diversity are significant: recruiting staff from the widest possible pool will unleash talent and develop better understanding of its customers and stakeholders. It will also enable it to better spot and exploit opportunities.
Every person working for the MRC has a personal responsibility for implementing and promoting our equality and diversity principles in their day-to-day dealings with customers, with each other and with partners and collaborators outside the Council. Inappropriate behaviour is not acceptable.
The MRC’s Equality and Diversity Vision sets out how we will try to ensure our policies and practices do not cause discrimination, and how we will actively promote equality and diversity.
The vision (PDF, 1022KB) and its related action plan (PDF, 65KB), which is the framework we will follow to implement the equality duties set out in the Equality Act 2010, builds on the previous equality duties (race, gender and disability), to cover age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion and belief, sex and sexual orientation.
We acknowledge there is much to be done to ensure our policies recognise the differing needs, roles, opportunities and responsibilities of our communities. We will monitor and report progress against our action plan and identify where more can be done to achieve our ambitions and become an exemplar organisation.
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UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is a non-departmental public body, bringing together the sevenResearch Councils, Innovate UK, and Research England. UKRI is charged with maximisin...
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