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Table 1. UKRI competitive funding decisions for individual fellowships as well as research and innovation grants totalling applications and awards for years 2015–16 to 2019–20, top 6 institutions (UKRI, 2021a)

	FELLOWSHIPS (Number AWARDED/Out of APPLIED)	RESEARCH AND INNOVATION GRANT (Number AWARDED/Out of APPLIED)
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE	125/664	567/1757
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD	99/491	673/1968
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON	137/623	733/2342
IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON	103/482	519/1858
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH	90/362	542/1664
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER	77/346	567/1847

Table 2. UKRI competitive funding decisions for individual fellowship applications, institutional stratification, totalling applications and awards for years 2015–16 to 2019–20 (UKRI, 2021a; authors’ calculation)

	NUMBER OF ORGANISATIONS	APPLICATIONS by these institutions	AWARDS for these institutions	AWARD RATE at these institutions	APPLICATIONS PER ORG.	AWARDS PER ORGANISATION
SUBMITTING 10 OR LESS fellowship applications	105	355	65	18.3%	3.4	0.6
SUBMITTING 10–100 fellowship applications	49	1735	369	21.3%	35.4	7.5
SUBMITTING 100+ fellowship applications	23	6241	1393	22.3%	271.3	60.6

Figure 1. HESA staff and student numbers between 2015–2016 and 2019–2020 (HESA, 2021a, 2021b).

Figure 2. Type of redundancy or contract termination by staffing category, calculated from total number of redundancies or contract terminations between 1^st of March 2020 and 1^st of March 2021 (FOI data, 36 institutional responses).

Table 3. UKRI diversity data, principal investigators in 2018–2019 across all research councils (UKRI, 2020c; authors’ calculation)

	APPLICANTS	AWARDS	AWARD RATE	RATIO AMONG PROJECTS
FEMALE PI	2675	640	23.9%	26.6%
MALE PI	6570	1725	26.3%	71.7%
UNKOWN/UNDISCLOSED GENDER	145	40	27.6%	1.7%
ETHNIC MINORITY PI	1215	210	17.3%	8.7%
WHITE PI	7460	2005	26.9%	83.4%
UNKOWN/UNDISCLOSED ETHNICITY	710	185	26.1%	7.7%
DISABLED PI	595	165	27.7%	6.9%
NOT DISABLED PI	8660	2210	25.5%	91.9%
UNKOWN/UNDISCLOSED DISABILITY	135	30	22.2%	1.2%
TOTAL	9390	2405

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