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R4RI mandate (UKRI 2024)

The UK Research and Innovation policy, fully effective in 2024, requiring applicants and reviewers in most UKRI funding opportunities to use the R4RI-derived narrative CV ('Resume for Research and Innovation') instead of traditional academic CVs.

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· Last updated 21 May 2026

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Examples

Worked examples

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A UKRI research-grant application is submitted using only R4RI sections, with no separate publication list.
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UKRI reviewers receive training in qualitative assessment of narrative contributions.

Counter-examples

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Applicants attaching a traditional CV as supplementary material in violation of UKRI guidance.
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Peer reviewers ranking narrative CVs by counting named outputs.

Editorial commentary

UKRI piloted R4RI-style narrative CVs from 2020 and, in 2022-2024, rolled them out across most of its funding opportunities through the new UKRI Funding Service. The mandate operationalises the Royal Society template with UKRI-specific guidance: applicants describe contributions to the generation of new knowledge, to the development of others, to the wider research community, and to broader society. UKRI provides reviewer guidance to evaluate narratives qualitatively rather than by counting publications. The mandate is part of UKRI's broader response to the Metric Tide Review and its CoARA commitments.

References

UKRI Funding Service guidance (ukri.org). UKRI Resume for Research and Innovation reviewer briefing 2024.

Also known as

UKRI R4RI mandate · UKRI narrative CV requirement

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