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EU Environmental Directives Post Brexit

By Cecilia Medupin Filed Under: All posts, Brexit, Energy and Environment Posted: January 15, 2018

The UK faces huge challenges in protecting its environment post-Brexit given the amount of EU Directives that will need to be transposed into UK law. In this blog, Dr Cecilia Medupin discusses the ways in which Brexit can be used to review our environmental regulations to meet this challenge. Brexit marks a number of unprecedented […]

Tagged With: Brexit, environment, Environmental legislation, rivers, water quality

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UK regional development in the context of Brexit

Elvira Uyarra By Elvira Uyarra Filed Under: Brexit Posted: October 27, 2017

Dr Elvira Uyarra is a Senior Lecturer at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR) at The University of Manchester examines current regional development in the UK and how this might change Post-Brexit. The following blog is based on a talk she gave at an event organised by the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs […]

Tagged With: Brexit, productivity, regional development

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Euratom and leaving the EU – an update

By Juan Matthews Filed Under: All posts, Brexit, Energy and Environment Posted: September 14, 2017

Earlier this year, Professor Juan Matthews contributed to a policy blog on the consequences of Britain’s planned withdrawal from Euratom as part of the Brexit process. Here, he gives us an update on the progress (or lack of it) around the issues of Euratom withdrawal and scientific collaboration with the European Union. In the months […]

Tagged With: Brexit, EU, Euratom, nuclear, nuclear energy, regulation

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International trade in post-Brexit Britain

By David Collins Filed Under: All posts, Brexit Posted: August 31, 2017

Our blog ‘Brexit, Regulation and Society’ blog series, in conjunction with ManReg, continues with City, University of London’s Professor David Collins. Here, Professor Collins reflects on Britain’s existing Bilateral Investment Treaties, and their role as a potential basis for our post-Brexit trading future. Bilateral Investment Treaties were created to protect investors overseas and the UK […]

Tagged With: Brexit, investment, ISDS, trade

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International students aren’t a visa risk: who’s surprised?

By Sylvie Lomer Filed Under: All posts, Brexit, British Politics, Inclusive Growth Posted: August 29, 2017

Here Dr Sylvie Lomer explains why international students aren’t a visa risk and outlines how false assumptions have been used as justifications for migration policies that seriously prejudice and inconvenience international students. Recently published Home Office data shows that 97.4% of international students are compliant with visa regulations, contradicting previous statements from Government that 20% […]

Tagged With: Brexit, immigration, MIE, students, Universities

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Brexit: An opportunity to progress equality and human rights?

By Rebecca Hilsenrath Filed Under: All posts, Brexit, British Politics Posted: August 22, 2017

Our ‘Brexit, regulation and society’ blog series continues with Rebecca Hilsenrath, Chief Executive of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Her blog, based on her presentation to ManReg‘s recent Brexit event, focuses on how the UK can, and must, maintain its equality and human rights protections throughout the process of leaving the European Union. Equalities […]

Tagged With: Brexit, equality and human rights commission, human rights

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Trade Unions, EU workers and ‘Brexit’: More Complexity, Less Certainty

By Rebecca Zahn Filed Under: All posts, Brexit Posted: August 15, 2017

Third in our series of policy blogs developed from MANREG‘s ‘Brexit, Regulation and Society’ event, The University of Strathclyde’s Dr Rebecca Zahn explores the impact of Brexit, trade deals, and EU migration for UK trade unions.  Since the ‘big bang’ expansion in 2004, the immigration and working rights within the EU have become highly polarising […]

Tagged With: Brexit, employment, immigration, trade unions

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Scoping the impact of Brexit for NHS procurement

By Albert Sanchez Graells Filed Under: Brexit, Health and Social Care Posted: August 10, 2017

Our series of blogs from speakers at MANREG‘s ‘Brexit, Regulation and Society’ event continues with the University of Bristol’s Dr Albert Sanchez Graells’ analysis of the effects of Brexit on NHS procurement rules.  The ‘purchaser-provider split’ within the NHS is the primary source of complex procurement rules. Reform of procurement regulations is possible within EU […]

Tagged With: Brexit, NHS, procurement, STPs

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Free-floating Citizenship – Could UK individuals be permitted to retain a form of EU citizenship post-Brexit?

By Javier Garcia Oliva Filed Under: Brexit Posted: August 7, 2017

In the first of a series of blogs generated from MANREG‘s Brexit, Regulation and Society in June, Dr Javier Garcia Oliva discusses the possibility of whether individual citizens of the UK might be permitted to opt in to some form of EU citizenship which they could retain post-Brexit. He considers four major obstacles to achieving this […]

Tagged With: Brexit, citizenship, European Union

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All or nothing: new survey shows polarised views on immigration

Rob Ford By Rob Ford Filed Under: All posts, Brexit, British Politics Posted: July 3, 2017

Last week, the results of the British Attitudes Survey were published. Here, Professor Rob Ford who authored the survey’s chapter on immigration, looks at what the results mean for attitudes and potential policies around immigration. There has been a sharp increase in the share of Brits who see both the economic and labour market impacts […]

Tagged With: Brexit, british attitudes survey, BSA, immigration, immigration policy, polarisation, polling, survey

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