FLICKR, Håkan DahlströmA report out today (May 24) lays out how much of the U.K.’s research funding came from the European Union in 2014/2015—and how much funding Britain stands to lose when Brexit goes into effect. Life sciences could be hard-hit after the U.K. leaves the European Union, the report suggests.
Of all academic areas in the U.K., archaeology receives the greatest proportion of its funds (38 percent) from the E.U., followed by classics and information technology.
“In archaeology we’re more worried than most. There’s no doubt that British-based archaeologists have been extraordinarily successful in these [EU grant] competitions,” University of York archaeologist Matthew Collins told BuzzFeed News. “Realistically, if you’re going to have that kind of drop in funding, what kind of impact is that going to have on British archaeology?”
Clinical medicine received the greatest amount of EU funds (£120 million), followed by biosciences, physics, and chemistry, according to a release from the Royal Society, which, along with the U.K.’s other three national academies, commissioned the report from the Technopolis Group.
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