The House of Lords Science and
Technology Committee will take evidence on
Tuesday November
12 from the Advanced
Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), the Government's new
research funding agency.
This is the first time
that the Chair and CEO of ARIA will have given evidence to a
Parliamentary Select Committee since ARIA's formal founding in
2023.
Recent Committee evidence
sessions have included ,
Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology; , Minister of State for
Science, Research, and Innovation; and Professor Dame , the Government's Chief
Scientific Adviser.
One-off evidence sessions
have been taking place alongside the cross-party Committee's
longer-term inquiry into engineering biology, which will report
early next year.
Among the questions the
Committee is likely to raise with Ilan Gur, CEO of ARIA, and Matt
Clifford, Chair of ARIA, are:
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Where does ARIA sit in the overall
research and innovation landscape in the
UK?
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ARIA has announced seven programme
directors with major areas of focus over the last year, so
could you outline some of the work you have achieved so
far?
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How does ARIA's research model
differ from other principal investigators funded through UK
Research and Innovation (UKRI)?
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Is your focus on very blue-skies
research, or is there a clear pathway to subsequent application
and innovation?
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How do you measure success when the
goals are so ambitious?
