The scenario opened by the upcoming consecutive European and British elections presents a unique opportunity to initiate new negotiations to mitigate the obstacles caused by Brexit in the area of scientific collaborations between the United Kingdom and the European Union.

In the context of the upcoming British elections, there is a unique opportunity to initiate new negotiations that mitigate the obstacles caused by Brexit in the field of scientific collaboration between the United Kingdom and the European Union.

This report analyses the barriers and obstacles that Brexit has meant for student and academic mobility in the United Kingdom and highlights the role of SRUK/CERU as a key player that has proactively contributed to mitigating the consequences of these challenges

The Department of Science Policy of SRUK has conducted the 7th edition of its Brexit Survey among its members. The aim of this survey is to assess the impact of Brexit on the personal and professional lives of individuals within our community. This edition focuses on analysing the post-Brexit landscape from a broader perspective, now that Brexit has officially happened, with the transition period concluded and negotiations finalised.

This report aims at assessing the state of past, present, and future research and innovation relationships between Poland and the United Kingdom. The statistical data, its analysis, and the institutional opinion summaries were achieved through desk-based research, survey participation, and interviewing key Polish and British stakeholders. Here we also discuss the key drivers of collaborations, the existing and potential challenges, and the prospects of future potential. Finally, we provide recommendations on how to boost and support UK-Polish research & innovation (R&I) collaboration on several levels: government, institutional, and individual.

We present the results from a survey on Portuguese, Spanish, Polish and Dutch researchers residing in the UK on issues related to Brexit. The key finding was that most respondents from all of the European diasporas find the UK less attractive after the referendum, with major obstacles identified being the new immigration policies for EU nationals, the political and economic situation in the UK, and limited access to research funds and to public services in the UK (NHS, education, pensions, etc.).

The results of this research project are anticipated to be used by a variety of stakeholders, including senior leadership and decision makers in government agencies, academic and research institutions, and provide insights into potential future investment opportunities for both countries. In addition, this report serves as a useful tool for PARSUK to determine the sort of projects that have had success and those that haven’t which help hone the focus of the PUMP project in the future.

This report examines public attitudes towards the future relationship between the UK and the EU, on issues including European and British identity and values, support or opposition to a closer future relationship with the EU in a range of areas, and interest in exchange programmes and events.

This research has three main objectives: 

1. To assess potential links between key individuals’ past experiences of undergraduate or postgraduate mobility to a UK HE institution and subsequent academic career choices. Study subjects are selected from each of the following three EU countries: France, Poland, and Portugal. 

2. To assess the factors that attracted these academic talents from their respective EU countries to choose a UK-based academic career path, including but not limited to the effect of any previous study in the UK, and to consider the sustainability of those factors. 

3. To suggest lines of future study regarding the long-term benefits to the UK economy and/or to specific institutions, of undergraduate and/or post-graduate mobility, including the impact on academic career choices as well as other value-added by EU alumni. 

This booklet contains the reports that pertain to a series of three knowledge exchange events that took place in 2020- 2021 under a project titled “Developing science advice at the Embassy of Portugal in the United Kingdom”. The events were designed to explore the development of science, technology and innovation (STI) capacity at the Embassy of Portugal in the UK, as one aspect of a larger science diplomacy strategy