The Foundation makes grants for research and innovation projects that aim to improve the design and operation of social policy, particularly in: It has discontinued its Open Door programme, but remains committed to encouraging original and thought-provoking approaches to research that identify new questions and change the terms of the debate.
[2] With the ESRC and HEFCE it funds Q-Step, a £19.5 million programme designed to promote a step-change in quantitative methods training for social science undergraduates in the UK.
In 2015, the Nuffield Foundation funded Our World in Data, a free web-publication to share quantitative social science with the general public.
[9] In 2018, the Foundation established the Ada Lovelace Institute[10] to research ethical questions raised by big data, algorithms and artificial intelligence.
[11] In 2019, the Foundation launched a major review of inequalities[12] chaired by Professor Sir Angus Deaton, and a £15m Strategic Fund for ambitious, interdisciplinary research projects that will address some of the most important challenges facing UK society and the public policy agenda in the next decade.