Our core contributing members include:
Our core members are: UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Wellcome, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), Department for Science, Technology and Innovation (DSIT).
Our wider stakeholders include the UK and international research community, research funding delivery partners, and the NGO, philanthropic and private sectors.
Strategic Coherence of ODA-funded Research (SCOR) Board
With development research funding now distributed across several government departments, and in light of considerable uncertainty around the future of the economy, and UK aid spending and research funding more specifically, it is more important than ever that research funding efforts are joined up and not duplicated.
The members of the SCOR Board help ensure that coordination efforts are impactful and that the UK provides a strong voice of leadership to the international development research community.
The funding bodies involved are:
- Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO); on behalf of all devolved administrations (Scottish Government, Welsh and Northern Ireland Assemblies)
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT)
- Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
- UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) (incorporating the existing Research Councils, Innovate UK and the research funding roles of the Higher Education Funding Council for England)
- Wellcome Trust
- Independent non-affiliated experts
The individuals on our SCOR Board are:
- Prof Melissa Leach (Chair) – Executive Director, Cambridge Conservation Initiative (Independent)
- Prof Charlotte Watts – Chief Scientific Advisor, FCDO
- Frances Wood – International Director, UKRI
- Prof Lucy Chappell – Chief Scientific Adviser, DHSC
- Adam Jackson – Director International Science and Innovation, DSIT
- Prof Ernest Aryeetey – Secretary-General, African Research Universities Alliance (independent)
- Mavis Owusu-Gyamfi – Executive Vice-President, African Center for Economic Transformation (independent)
The SCOR Board convenes on a quarterly basis. The secretariat is provided by UKCDR’s team.
SCOR Board Updates
Follow the links below for summaries of discussions at recent SCOR Board meetings:
UKCDR Stakeholder Group
A stakeholder group comprising expertise from our wider members ensures we have a diversity of opinions and views from across the international development research sector.