Institutions eligible for the accelerated process under Senior Appointments UK Higher Education Institutions All UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) that can award degrees as defined by law UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and its Councils – Institutes and units Daresbury Laboratory NERC British Antarctic Survey MRC Harwell NERC British Geological Survey MRC Head Office NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Rutherford Appleton Laboratory MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences UK Astronomy Technology Centre MRC Toxicology Unit BBSRC Institutes are shown as independent research National Oceanographic Centre organisations on the right hand side UK Independent Research Organisations and Institutes Alan Turing Institute National Physical Laboratory Babraham Institute National Portrait Gallery British Library Natural History Museum British Museum The Pirbright Institute Cancer Research UK (institutes & units) Plymouth Marine Laboratory Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE)/Euratom Quadram Institute Diamond Light Source Ltd Roslin Institute Earlham Institute Rothamsted Research EMBL – European Bioinformatics Institute Royal Botanic Gardens – Kew The Francis Crick Institute The Royal Institution of Great Britain Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) The Sainsbury Laboratory Institute for Fiscal Studies Science Museum Group Institute of Development Studies Scottish Association for Marine Sciences John Innes Centre Square Kilometre Array National Archives UK Dementia Research Institute National Centre for Social Research UK Space Agency National Institute of Economic and Social Research Victoria & Albert Museum National Maritime Museum Wellcome Trust Sanger institute National Museums Liverpool Zoological Society of London, Institute of Zoology National Museums of Scotland RESEARCH AND INNOVATION TALENT VISA ELIGIBLE INSTITUTIONS – VERSION 01/10/19 1.