On 29 May UKCDS partnered with the Royal Academy of Engineering to host a roundtable for UK funders and research leaders to discuss the future opportunities in engineering research for international development.

This report contains a short summary of the roundtable discussions. The meeting, chaired by Professor John Perkins FREng, brought together senior research leaders from a small number of UK universities with EPSRC and DFID to discuss the current opportunities, and barriers to further activity.

Annexed to this document are:

• The agenda, short background paper and list of attendees
• The EPSRC and DFID presentations
• A UKCDS mapping of the UK engineering for development research base that underpinned the discussion.

You can also download the summary of discussions, the presentations shown at the roundtable, the agenda or the original UKCDS mapping as separate documents.