Catalogue description Records created or inherited by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and Predecessors

Details of EV
Reference: EV
Title: Records created or inherited by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and Predecessors
Description:

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.
Date: 1956-2019
Related material:

For records of the Science Research Council's predecessor body see the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: DSIR
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Not Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1916-1965

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, 1994-

Science and Engineering Research Council, 1981-1994

Science Research Council, 1965-1981
Physical description: 9 series
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1997 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

From 1990 Science and Engineering Research Council
Administrative / biographical background:

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.

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