U.K. Lays Out Its Vision for Post-Brexit Research

The government’s new position paper on science and innovation after leaving the E.U. takes a positive tone, but has frustrated researchers with its lack of detail.

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The UK government has published a position paper laying out its vision for collaboration with the E.U. in science and innovation after Brexit—the U.K.’s impending withdrawal from the Union following 2016’s national referendum on EU membership. The document, made available online yesterday (September 6), lists what government ministers see as the most important issues to maintaining research collaborations with the continent after the country’s official departure, scheduled for March 2019.

“We feel it is crucial that we maintain collaboration with our European partners after we exit,” Brexit Secretary David Davis said in quotes accompanying the paper’s publication, Politico reports. “We want to attract the brightest minds to the U.K. to build on the already great work being done across the country to ensure that our ...

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Catherine Offord
After undergraduate research with spiders at the University of Oxford and graduate research with ants at Princeton University, Catherine left arthropods and academia to become a science journalist. She has worked in various guises at The Scientist since 2016. As Senior Editor, she wrote articles for the online and print publications, and edited the magazine’s Notebook, Careers, and Bio Business sections. She reports on subjects ranging from cellular and molecular biology to research misconduct and science policy. Find more of her work at her website.
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