Records created or inherited by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council...

EV

1956-2019

Records of the creating bodies relating to the funding and administration of grants for scientific research and higher education.

Agenda, minutes and papers of the Science Research Council and the Science and Engineering Research Council are in EV 7, with minutes and papers of the Research Grants Council in EV 1. Minutes, papers and correspondence of the Science Research Council's University Science and Technology Board may be found in EV 6, with those of the Board's various committees in EV 2, EV 3, EV 4 and EV 5. The original charter and seals of the Councils are in EV 8.

For series created for regularly archived websites, please see the separate Websites Division.

For records of the Science Research Council's predecessor body see the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: DSIR

Not Public Record(s)

English

• Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1916-1965
• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, 1994-1994
• Science and Engineering Research Council, 1981-1994
• Science Research Council, 1965-1981

9 series

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From 1997 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

From 1990 Science and Engineering Research Council

Topics

Research

After the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research was abolished by the Science and Technology Act 1965, responsibility for grants for university research and awards to postgraduate students was assumed by the new Science Research Council. The Council's functions encompassed the support and encouragement of scientific research and education in universities and similar institutions, in its own establishments, and in collaboration with international organisations. In 1981, the Council was renamed the Science and Engineering Research Council, which in April 1994 became the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.