Our research
The Global Uncertainties programme brings together Research Councils investments in security related research. This encompasses funding in major programmes and Research Council Institutes, responsive researcher-inspired mode grants, fellowships, collaborative schemes and knowledge exchange activities.
The research and activities supported under the Global Uncertainties programme will help governments, business and societies to better understand the complex nature of insecurity and provide new knowledge about how threats to security develop and can be addressed.
Global Uncertainties' six core research areas are:
- Ideologies and beliefs
- Terrorism
- Transnational organised crime
- Cybersecurity
- Threats to infrastructures
- Proliferation of CBRN weapons and technologies
Research Councils also provide support to cross-cutting programme activities, such as the development of an overarching programme strategy, growing a multidisciplinary research community, building academic links with policymakers and practitioners in UK and internationally, and engaging with the wider public.
Pathways to impact
The Research Councils, working together with research communities and other partners, want to encourage researchers to be actively involved in thinking about how they will achieve excellence with impact and to explore the pathways for realising the impact. A number of resources have been developed to help researchers to communicate research and achieve maximum impact.
Global Uncertainties Schools Network
The Global Uncertainties Schools Network has been set up by the Institute of Ideas' Debating Matters Competition and is supported by the Global Uncertainties programme. It ran a series of six debating events around some of the core research areas of the Global Uncertainties programme.
To help students get to grips with some of the ideas, political and social trends, and events that inform and shape these debates, a collection of resources on the themes was made available.
Interim International Security Forum
During the early phases of the Global Uncertainties programme an Interim International Security Forum was established. A series of workshops explored future directions and research challenges for the programme.