ResearchReady Programme Partners

The scheme is a partnership between the Royal Academy of Engineering, Google DeepMind, The Hg Foundation and AIchemy. It is funding up to 120 paid AI research placements in summer 2025, hosted by 12 UK universities.

The Royal Academy of Engineering is harnessing the power of engineering to build a sustainable society and an inclusive economy that works for everyone. In collaboration with our Fellows and partners, we’re growing talent and developing skills for the future, driving innovation and building global partnerships, and influencing policy and engaging the public. Together we’re working to tackle the greatest challenges of our age.

Google DeepMind is a world-leading AI research lab with British heritage and an international team, committed to building AI responsibly, delivering scientific breakthroughs, and creating products that improve billions of lives. The unit’s breakthroughs over the last decade include AlphaGo - the first computer program to defeat a Go world champion, Transformers - neural networks that underpin all modern language models, AlphaFold - an AI system that predicts 3D models of protein structures enabling further scientific advancement, and Gemini, a family of versatile AI models built from the ground up for multimodality, seamlessly combining and understanding text, code, images, audio and video.

The Hg Foundation’s vision is that the tech workforce of the future harnesses the talents of all, regardless of background. It does this by supporting education and employment-based programmes across Europe and the US where it can demonstrate measurable, long-term and scalable impact and make a difference to those that need it most. To date it has committed $30m to programmes that will reach over 50,000 young people and adults from under-represented backgrounds. The Foundation’s work is solely funded by Hg – a leading investor in European and transatlantic software and services businesses.
The Hg Foundation is registered Charity no. 1189216.

AIchemy is a UK-based hub led by an interdisciplinary team from Imperial College London, University of Liverpool, University of Cambridge, and University of Southampton. Its mission is to drive the integration of artificial intelligence in chemistry through world-class research and to accelerate AI adoption in both experimental and computational chemistry. The Hub's focus spans molecules, materials, and devices, addressing the growing cross-sector demand for AI in the UK’s chemical and related industries. Funded by EPSRC, its initiatives include world leading research, biddable funding opportunities, training programs, and events.