Signatories of the Concordat
Up-to-date information relating to the Concordat can now be accessed via this new self-contained website. This page below is under review and will be revised shortly.
Note: From January 2021, Universities UK have taken on responsibility for the Concordat Secretariat and therefore will be collating a new list of signatories in due course.
To be added to the new list of signatories please contact Universities UK
The list of signatories below is up to date as of 29 March 2021.
This is a list of organisations who have signed up to the Principles of the Researcher Development Concordat since it's publication in September 2019. Organisations with an interest in the career development of researchers may become a signatory of the Researcher Development Concordat at any time, by the head of the organisation publicly committing to implement the Concordat Principles.
Concordat Strategy Group signatories
- Advance HE
- The British Academy - signed letter
- The British Heart Foundation - signed letter
- Careers Research and Advisory Centre (CRAC), of which Vitae is a non-profit programme - signed letter
- Cancer Research UK
- Department for the Economy, Northern Ireland - signed letter
- Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW)
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) - signed letter
- Royal Academy of Engineering - action plan
- Royal Society - signed letter
- Scottish Funding Council - signed letter
- UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) - action plan
- UK Research Staff Association (UKRSA) - signed letter
- Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) - signed letter
- Universities UK
- Wellcome - signed letter
Organisational signatories
- Abertay University - signed letter
- Aberystwyth University - signed letter
- Anglia Ruskin University - signed letter
- Bangor University - signed letter
- Bath Spa University - signed letter
- Bournemouth University - signed letter
- Brunel University London - signed letter
- Canterbury Christ Church University - signed letter
- Cardiff Metropolitan University - signed letter
- Cardiff University - signed letter
- Coventry University - signed letter
- Cranfield University - signed letter
- Dunhill Medical Trust - signed letter
- Durham University - signed letter
- Edge Hill University - signed letter
- Edinburgh Napier University - signed letter
- The Francis Crick Institute - signed letter
- Glasgow Caledonian University - signed letter
- Goldsmiths, University of London - signed letter
- Heriot Watt University - signed letter
- Imperial College London - signed letter
- Institute of Cancer Research - signed letter
- Keele University - signed letter
- King's College London - signed letter
- Kingston University - signed letter
- Lancaster University - signed letter
- Liverpool John Moores University - signed letter
- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine - signed letter
- London Metropolitan University - signed letter
- London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) - signed letter
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - signed letter
- Loughborough University - signed letter
- Manchester Metropolitan University - signed letter
- Newcastle University - signed letter
- Northumbria University - signed letter
- Nottingham Trent University - signed letter
- The Open University - signed letter
- Oxford Brookes University - signed letter
- Plymouth Marjon University - signed letter
- Queen Margaret University - signed letter
- Queen Mary University London - signed letter
- Queen's University Belfast - signed letter
- Royal College of Art - signed letter
- The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) - signed letter
- Sheffield Hallam University - signed letter
- SOAS University of London - signed letter
- Stranmillis University College - signed letter
- St George's University of London - signed letter
- The Sainsbury Laboratory - signed letter
- UHR - signed letter
- Ulster University - signed letter
- University College London - signed letter
- University for the Creative Arts - signed letter
- University of Aberdeen - signed letter
- University of Bath - signed letter
- University of Birmingham - signed letter
- University of Bradford - signed letter
- University of Brighton - signed letter
- University of Bristol - signed letter
- University of Cambridge - signed letter
- University of Central Lancashire - signed letter
- University of Dundee - signed letter
- University of East Anglia - signed letter
- University of Edinburgh - signed letter
- University of Exeter - signed letter
- University of Glasgow - signed letter
- University of Greenwich - signed letter
- University of Hertfordshire - signed letter
- University of Huddersfield - signed letter
- University of Hull - signed letter
- University of Kent - signed letter
- University of Leeds - signed letter
- University of Leicester - signed letter
- University of Lincoln - signed letter
- University of Liverpool - signed letter
- University of Manchester - signed letter
- University of Nottingham - signed letter
- University of Oxford - signed letter
- University of Plymouth - signed letter
- University of Portsmouth - signed letter
- University of Reading - signed letter
- University of Roehampton - signed letter
- University of Sheffield - signed letter
- University of Southampton - signed letter
- University of South Wales - signed letter
- University of St Andrews - signed letter
- University of Stirling - signed letter
- University of Strathclyde - signed letter
- University of Surrey - signed letter
- University of Sussex - signed letter
- University of Westminster - signed letter
- University of the West of Scotland - signed letter
- University of Wolverhampton - signed letter
- University of York - signed letter
- York St John University - signed letter
Find more information on how to sign up to the Concordat and what committing to the Concordat would mean for your organisation.
A template letter for new signatories can be downloaded here.