November 2021 E-bulletin
Spending Review | CaSE Annual Lecture | Annual Review | Board & AGM | New Member
Responding to the 2021 Spending Review
Overall, the 2021 Spending Review was a positive result for UK science and engineering, with the Chancellor placing research and innovation at the heart of his plan for growth.
You can read our response to the review, as well as further analysis we published in the following days. We’ve also taken the opportunity to rate the Spending Review against each of the five points of our R&D roadmap. 

The Government have now committed to investing £20 billion in R&D by 2024/25, a 34% increase from 2021/22. While we’re disappointed that they’ve pushed back their £22bn target to 2026, the result could have been a lot worse. In this piece we explain the important role CaSE played to influence the outcome of the review, using our expert analysis, political nous, long-standing media relations, engaged membership and sector-wide networks. We've also published the event write-up from our pre-Spending Review roundtable held jointly with UKRI.
Register for the CaSE Annual Lecture 2021
Join us online for the CaSE Annual Lecture 2021 given by the Director of the U.S. National Science Foundation, Dr Sethuraman Panchanathan, on the afternoon of Monday 29th November.

2021 is proving to be a transformative year for American science, with proposals to significantly increase investment in scientific and innovation. The UK Government has set its own target to increase public investment in R&D and the event will provide an opportunity to examine these efforts in a global context.

The CaSE Annual Lecture is the organisation's flagship event and this year is sponsored by Elsevier. For further details and to register for the event visit our website.
Celebrating our work over the last year
CaSE has published its latest Annual Review, giving an overview of our achievements and organisational health over the last twelve months.

Despite political upheaval and the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, CaSE has achieved real success in championing the priorities of our members and the entire UK science and engineering sector. This includes pushing the government to meet its R&D investment targets, raising awareness on Horizon Europe funding, launching our Discovery Decade campaign and publishing a new briefing on Inspiring Innovation. The review also sets out our ambitions for 2022 and beyond.
New Trustees
We're delighted to announce that Jane Hughes, Perdita Fraser and Kim Graham have been appointed to the CaSE Board of Trustees. The Board has an important role to play in helping set the strategic direction of CaSE and overseeing its good governance. Hannah Kerr and Simon Jennings have stepped down from the Board having ended their term and we thank them for their valuable contribution to CaSE.

The appointments took place at this month's AGM, which included an address by the Executive Director on CaSE's activities and successes over the last year, which has now been published on our website.
Bruntwood SciTech join CaSE
CaSE are delighted to welcome Bruntwood SciTech as new organisational members. One of the UK’s leading property and innovation services, Bruntwood plays a vital role for the science and engineering sector, offering a diverse range of locations and spaces to encourage innovation and allow companies to fulfil their potential.

We look forward to representing the views of Bruntwood alongside all of our members, ensuring that the needs of the sector are heard at the highest levels of government. If you are interested in finding out more about organisational membership of CaSE please contact Henry Gates.
Engaging with the sector
CaSE staff having taken part in a number of policy events over the last month, including those by the UK Science Park Association, Higher Education Policy Institute and Royal Society for Chemistry, as well as being on the steering group for a new report published by the Physiological Society on the future of interdisciplinary research.
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