I was part of a successful EU funding bid, but as a UK academic I am not needed now

Clare McGlynn is not surprised that the UK was overlooked as a focus country after a successful EU funding bid

Published on
December 17, 2017
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December 17, 2017
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I voted Remain, and the need to fight online abuse and defeat sexual harassment is paramount. But as I understand it, the UK has paid, and will continue to pay (not least in the billions of 'divorce' money the Brexiters squeal about) towards EU research funding. Moreover, surely colleagues fortunate to be in EU countries in the foreseeable future will know that UK academics will have been by a large majority part of the 48% Remain voters. And surely, too, they will recognize the unique and collegial contributions UK researchers have made in the past to EU wide research projects and could continue to make. Not least, in addressing the social evils of sexual harassment and online abuse. So yes, I do blame the funders at for turning their backs on us, when some solidarity on this issue, of all issues, would be appropriate, never mind a commitment to internationalism and scholarly rigour wherever it is found. (And btw we leave Brexiters an open goal when we do not recognize we are still, for the time being, funders ourselves).

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