STFC is part of UKRI, a non-departmental public body funded by a grant-in-aid from the UK government. STFC are a world-leading multi-disciplinary science organisation, and their goal is to deliver economic, societal, scientific and international benefits to the UK and its people – and more broadly to the world. Their strength comes from their distinct but interrelated functions:

• Universities: they support university-based research, innovation and skills development in astronomy, particle physics, nuclear physics, and space science
• Scientific Facilities: they provide access to world-leading, large-scale facilities across a range of physical and life sciences, enabling research, innovation and skills training in these areas
• National Campuses: they work with partners to build National Science and Innovation Campuses based around their National Laboratories to promote academic and industrial collaboration and translation of their research to market through direct interaction with industry
• Inspiring and Involving: they help ensure a future pipeline of skilled and enthusiastic young people by using the excitement of their sciences to encourage wider take-up of STEM subjects in school and future life (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) We support an academic community of around 1,700 in particle physics, nuclear physics, and astronomy including space science, who work at more than 50 universities and research institutes in the UK, Europe, Japan and the United States, including a rolling cohort of more than 900 PhD students.