Free while we build – here is how it works
Through the founding period everything on Research Agenda is free: register once, read everything, get the briefings. Founding subscriptions are open now, and founding subscribers lock their rate for three years.
The founding period – now to December 2026
Registration is free and unlocks the full site and the email briefing. We build the service in front of you; you tell us what it must do to earn its keep. Founding subscriptions can be agreed at any point during the period.
Three years locked at founding rates.
Subscribe during the founding period and your rate holds for three full years. Founding rates are available on enquiry – agree terms now, start paying in January.
Three ways in
Research Agenda is sold to organisations, for everyone on their email domain. An individual subscription is for readers who have no organisation that could subscribe for them – independent researchers, sole traders, small consultancies and the like. If you work at a university, a funder or a larger employer, the route is an organisational subscription even where yours has not signed up yet: talk to us and we will help you make the case.
- For independents, sole traders and small practices with no organisational route
- Every briefing, in full
- All reporting, trackers and archives
- Card payment, cancel anytime
- Organisation-wide access – everyone on your domain, no user caps
- Every briefing, for unlimited colleagues
- All trackers: policy watch, deadline radar, REF 2029
- Founding subscribers lock their rate for three years
- Whole-organisation access and briefings
- Bespoke onboarding for policy and strategy teams
- For funders, government bodies, industry R&D and advisers
Billing & procurement
Institutional and corporate subscriptions are invoiced annually – purchase order references welcome, as are card payments, and renewals can be aligned with your existing Wonkhe subscription dates if you need. Access is domain-based: colleagues sign in with their institutional email address and are recognised automatically.
FAQs
- What happens to my free registration in January?
- It remains your login. From January 2027 the full service – site and briefing alike – becomes subscriber-only.
- Can we agree a founding subscription now but start paying in January?
- Yes – that is exactly how founding subscriptions work. Terms agreed now, access free to the end of December.
- Multi-year or consortium arrangements?
- Talk to us – both are possible.
- Is there a limit on how many people in my institution can use the service?
- No.
- My organisation doesn’t subscribe. Can I pay for myself?
- Only if there is no organisation that could subscribe for you – independent researchers, sole traders, small consultancies and similar. Universities, funders, agencies and larger employers subscribe as organisations, covering everyone on the domain. If yours has not yet, that is still the route: tell us who to talk to and we will help make the case.
Register free for the founding period
The briefings and the full site, free until January.