The 'Brexit Referendum' and Identity Politics in Britain: Social Cleavages, Party Competition and the Future of Immigration and Integration Policy
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Manchester
Department Name: Social Sciences
Abstract
The June 23rd 2016 referendum vote to leave the EU revealed deep social divides which cut across traditional party lines, and set up the most complex and divisive political reform agenda for decades. The manner in which the government proceeds with this agenda will depend very much on the patterns of electoral competition it faces. All governments are sensitive to electoral pressure, and the current government, with a perilously small majority, will be no exception. The electoral pressures of the government will be- in turn- to a large extent influenced by how the politics of immigration develop post-referendum, and how much immigration policy will change in the process of leaving the EU. This proposal directly addresses two priority areas: 'Brexit and party politics' and 'Implications for migration'. This programme of high impact research will offer new insights on some of the most important new pressures on UK politics in the aftermath of the vote for Brexit.
Our research has four goals: (1) to examine how the vote to leave the EU relates to the emergence of divisions in British society around immigration, diversity and identity, as a continuation of past trends, a transient shock, or the beginning of a fundamental political realignment; (2) to investigate how the referendum result is impacting on the internal politics and electoral strategies of the main opposition political parties to the left and right of the governing Conservative Party; (3) analyse how the referendum result is changing the politics of immigration, currently the most salient issue in the country, and map the emergence of a new agenda within this area: of immigrant integration policy and politics; (4) undertake an intensive and clearly-defined stream of impact and knowledge exchange work to communicate our findings to key stakeholders, working with Professor Menon to inform politicians, policymakers, journalists and civil society groups. The impact work will also actively engage a large group of Early Career Researchers.
The three investigators have a long track record of delivering top research outputs in internationally excellent journals, leading academic presses, and engaging with a wide variety of research users to achieve tangible societal impacts in the areas related to this application. We will maximise value for money by using existing data sources, many already financed by the ESRC. The partnership with the British Election Study team will enable us to gather new data efficiently through an existing large scale research project, offering strong return on investment.
The project is divided into three work packages (WP): WP1 will bring together work on the social cleavages and party competition; WP2 will deliver research into the politics and policies of immigration and integration; and WP3 will coordinate impact efforts.
Our research has four goals: (1) to examine how the vote to leave the EU relates to the emergence of divisions in British society around immigration, diversity and identity, as a continuation of past trends, a transient shock, or the beginning of a fundamental political realignment; (2) to investigate how the referendum result is impacting on the internal politics and electoral strategies of the main opposition political parties to the left and right of the governing Conservative Party; (3) analyse how the referendum result is changing the politics of immigration, currently the most salient issue in the country, and map the emergence of a new agenda within this area: of immigrant integration policy and politics; (4) undertake an intensive and clearly-defined stream of impact and knowledge exchange work to communicate our findings to key stakeholders, working with Professor Menon to inform politicians, policymakers, journalists and civil society groups. The impact work will also actively engage a large group of Early Career Researchers.
The three investigators have a long track record of delivering top research outputs in internationally excellent journals, leading academic presses, and engaging with a wide variety of research users to achieve tangible societal impacts in the areas related to this application. We will maximise value for money by using existing data sources, many already financed by the ESRC. The partnership with the British Election Study team will enable us to gather new data efficiently through an existing large scale research project, offering strong return on investment.
The project is divided into three work packages (WP): WP1 will bring together work on the social cleavages and party competition; WP2 will deliver research into the politics and policies of immigration and integration; and WP3 will coordinate impact efforts.
Planned Impact
This project envisages an intensive but realistic programme of impact activities that are targeted not only toward non-academic research users but also early-career researchers (ECRs), with an eye to the importance of capacity building. The impact work package will not only exchange knowledge and impact civil servants, civil society groups, media and politics but also enable ECRs to gain experience of the knowledge exchange and impact process.
We will maximise our existing relationships with research users and, with their support, pursue six pathways to impact:
(1) Convene an elite-level workshop for civil servants, drawn from the Department for Exiting the EU, Home Office, Department for Communities and Local Government, and Cabinet Office. In cooperation with Professor Menon, these will be hosted at the 'UK In a Changing Europe' at King's and will present our findings and begin a conversation about Brexit effects which we hope will continue to benefit not only us but the UK In a Changing Europe programme more widely.
(2) Convene a workshop for political and party campaigners and other key stakeholders on the electoral effects of Brexit, in partnership with the Electoral Reform Society. This will be held at King's and will again broaden the programme's impact.
(3) Convene a workshop on immigration and integration issues for civil servants, civic groups who work on these issues and are actively involved in the policy making process, and other actors engaged in the ongoing debate over immigration policy. This will be developed and held in partnership with British Future and will again broaden the programme's impact with diverse stakeholder audiences.
(4) To maximize impact on the broader public understanding of Brexit we will convene two public 'town hall' meetings modelled on the successful UK In a Changing Europe meetings held in spring 2016 -one in Canterbury, and one in Manchester.
(5) Up to 12 Early Career Researchers will get the opportunity to attend, participate and where possible present their own research at these events. We will support them through the process to ensure they make the most of this opportunity and advertise widely to maximise the reach of this initiative.
(6) We will publish and disseminate two research reports, published under the UK In a Changing Europe brand and which will present our chief findings to a large audience of non-academic users. These reports will be shared on the websites of our partners as well as the Political Studies Association and we will, as we have done in the past, blog widely in the media about our findings. Our findings from our partnership with the BES will also be disseminated through their website and blog.
We will maximise our existing relationships with research users and, with their support, pursue six pathways to impact:
(1) Convene an elite-level workshop for civil servants, drawn from the Department for Exiting the EU, Home Office, Department for Communities and Local Government, and Cabinet Office. In cooperation with Professor Menon, these will be hosted at the 'UK In a Changing Europe' at King's and will present our findings and begin a conversation about Brexit effects which we hope will continue to benefit not only us but the UK In a Changing Europe programme more widely.
(2) Convene a workshop for political and party campaigners and other key stakeholders on the electoral effects of Brexit, in partnership with the Electoral Reform Society. This will be held at King's and will again broaden the programme's impact.
(3) Convene a workshop on immigration and integration issues for civil servants, civic groups who work on these issues and are actively involved in the policy making process, and other actors engaged in the ongoing debate over immigration policy. This will be developed and held in partnership with British Future and will again broaden the programme's impact with diverse stakeholder audiences.
(4) To maximize impact on the broader public understanding of Brexit we will convene two public 'town hall' meetings modelled on the successful UK In a Changing Europe meetings held in spring 2016 -one in Canterbury, and one in Manchester.
(5) Up to 12 Early Career Researchers will get the opportunity to attend, participate and where possible present their own research at these events. We will support them through the process to ensure they make the most of this opportunity and advertise widely to maximise the reach of this initiative.
(6) We will publish and disseminate two research reports, published under the UK In a Changing Europe brand and which will present our chief findings to a large audience of non-academic users. These reports will be shared on the websites of our partners as well as the Political Studies Association and we will, as we have done in the past, blog widely in the media about our findings. Our findings from our partnership with the BES will also be disseminated through their website and blog.
Organisations
Publications
Ford R
(2017)
"British Politics" in EU Referendum: One Year On
Matthew Goodwin
(2018)
None Past The Post: Britain at the Polls, 2017
Matthew Goodwin
(2018)
The perceived costs and benefits of Brexit
Sobolewska
(2020)
Brexitland
Sobolewska M
(2019)
Sex, Lies and Politics
Sobolewska M
(2020)
Brexit and Britain's Culture Wars
in Political Insight
Sobolewska M
(2021)
Breaking the Deadlock
Sobolewska M
(2019)
British Culture Wars? Brexit and the Future Politics of Immigration and Ethnic Diversity
in The Political Quarterly
Description | The main findings of the award are now in the book "Brexitland". It presents the widest ranging analysis of the long running political and social changes which have dramatically changed the nature of party competition and electoral choice in Britain. Unlike earlier accounts of the 2016 EU membership referendum result, this manuscript presents an integrated theoretical explanation for the extraordinary political volatility that Britain is currently experiencing. This theoretical explanation includes elements of political psychology, research on political parties, and the study of the dynamics of public opinion. Bringing together more than a decade of research into politics of ethnic diversity and immigration as well as voting, Brexitland is an account of a society and political system in flux, and locates the biggest political event in a generation within a broader story of change. Sobolewska and Ford go beyond explaining how Britain arrived at the decision to leave the EU and show how the underlying causes of Brexit will go on to destabilise British politics in the long term. They draw on a rich variety of political and social data to identify and analyse the new identity divisions and conflicts that are reshaping British politics and integrate them with more historical and institutional accounts of political parties. Building on their analysis of social and political trends, pivotal moments in political history, public opinion, analysis of party competition and political psychology, this book covers an impressive array of explanatory lenses and perspectives, all contributing to our deepening understanding of Brexit in a wider context and the kind of enduring impact it will have on British politics going forward. The arguments Brexitland makes are sophisticated, with rigorous data analysis, but they are presented in a manner which is accessible to all disciplinary perspectives as well as well-educated general audience. Sobolewska and Ford's account is thus the new orthodoxy against which all future accounts will need to be defined. "Brexitland" makes an original and substantial contribution to understanding of changing patterns of party competition, locating the historic EU referendum within broader processes of social and political change. Sobolewska and Ford make a complex argument that British politics have not, as it has been assumed, escaped some of the trends documented elsewhere in Europe that traditionally the UK political system was designed to keep out. From the development of political conflicts driven by the emergence of New Left in the 1960s and the resultant counter mobilisation of national identity attachments and anti-immigration sentiments, the growing sense of alienation from mainstream politics, to the subsequent rise of electoral support for radical right-wing parties, the disruptions that these new politics created were supposedly kept out of British politics by the high barriers to entry created by the UK's first past the post voting system and the resulting dominance of two governing parties. Yet, as the conditions became more favourable, with a non-inevitable decision to call the referendum on European membership, the fuel for political disruption was there all along. This fuel was ignited in part by the British decision to leave the EU, which mobilised new social divides behind new referendum political identities, accelerating long running changes in the axis of political identities and competition. Sobolewska and Ford argue that new divides over the politics of diversity and identity might prove a more enduring basis for changed party competition than short term arguments over the consequences of Brexit, and explain the role of ethnocentrism and the choices the political parties make in exploiting it for political gain as the main mechanisms. Their account calls for a more systematic and in-depth measurement of ethnocentrism and the authors outline a new scholarly agenda to answer the inevitable unknowns and omissions of their manuscript. Despite the breadth and nuances of their account, they present it their thesis in a jargon-free and sequential manner. The accessibility of Brexitland has truly set this tome apart from an array of other positions coving the 2016 Referendum. |
Exploitation Route | The book proposes a distinct new scholarly agenda, including some issues of survey measurement. |
Sectors | Government Democracy and Justice |
Description | We have presented of our findings to Parliamentarians and Civil Servants on at least four occasions, although it is too early to identify any specific impacts, we have garnered a lot of interest for these (also from the quality media, including the Telegraph and Newsnight, and are confident we have contributed to public perception of these issues and the issue awareness of policy makers. The issue that has stood out is the one on the voting rights of EU citizens. Our raising of awareness that this would garner a lot of public support has resulted in many newspaper articles, was trending on Twitter and resulted in a dedicated phone-in show on LBC radio. We have now also been invited to speak about the book Brexitland that came out of this project to the House of Commons Library and the Equality and Human Rights Commission. The latter are particularly interested in the experimental data we have produced as part of this award (and available as an open access dataset). We have also been working on societal awareness by publishing in the Observer, and recording multiple podcasts for non-academic audiences. |
Sector | Government, Democracy and Justice |
Impact Types | Societal Policy & public services |
Description | Ethnic minority voters in 2019: Brexitland, or business as usual? |
Amount | £69,994 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ES/T015616/1 |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2020 |
End | 06/2020 |
Title | Brexit as a social cleavage: Attitudes to immigration and race in Britain 2018 |
Description | In a post-Brexit Britain questions over some of the more divisive social cleavages, such as over race, ethnic diversity and immigration, as well as Brexit itself, has been rised. This short survey uses a British Election Study online panel sub- sample to ask about attitudes towards ethnic minorities, racist behaviours, immigrants, and people who voted for Leave and Remain in the Brexit referendum. Link to the other British Election Survey questions available. Survey contains survey experiments. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | This is a new dataset, so no firm impacts have yet been noted, but the publications drawing on the results have attracted some media attention: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/03/as-immigration-from-outside-europe-rises-hucksters-foment-racial-hatred search in the UK Data Archive ReShare record 853330 Brexit as a social cleavage: Attitudes to immigration and race in Britain 2018. |
URL | https://reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/cgi/users/home?screen=EPrint::View&eprintid=853330 |
Description | 12 July 2017 House of Lords Select Committee on Citizenship and Civic Engagement pre-inquiry workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | I was invited to a workshop to help inform the inquiry of the Lords Committee. This talk helped persuade the Committee to include immigrant integration within the scope of the inquiry and thus had a tangible impact. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | 7th November 2017 Foreign and Commonwealth Office talk "Public Opinion Masterclass" as part of UK in Changing Europe Brexit initiative. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | I gave a talk about the future of policy making in a diverse society post-Brexit and how this diversity has impacted on the Referendum result in the first place. The audience were a diverse group of policy makers from multiple departments art Whitehall. The audience seemed deeply influenced by the content of the talk which many said they have not been aware before. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Bamberg keynote |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | 23rd May 2018 I gave an invited keynote speach at the University of Bamberg's graduate school series of guest lectures about political psychology. This included my research about race and ethnicity and identity politics around Brexit referendum. Around 30 graduate students and others came to this talk and it led to an interesting debate about parallels between the UK and the US. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Book talks |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | This is a common entry for more than 10 book talks, because of home schooling I cannot input them all. They were mostly mixed audiences with some academics and either students or members of the media and political class (including MPs). We presented at EUI in Florence, AMCIS in Amsterdam, LSE, Birmingham, UEA, Leeds, British Academy, University of Southampton, Manchester. We also gave a talk to Bright Blues, a Conservative think tank. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Discussion of research, Number 10 Downing Street/PM Team |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Discussion of Brexit-related research to Number 10 Prime Minister team |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Early career event: Brexit and The Social Sciences Seminar |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | This was an event to support and showcase early career researchers who work on Brexit: it included multi-disciplinary work, and it ranged from post-graduate students to post-docs. Some were selected to write a blog for UK in Changing Europe report on public opinion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | European Social Survey event on immigration attitudes at the European Parliament |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | I took part in an event organised by the European Social Survey at the European Parliament, presenting analysis of immigration attitudes and the impact of identity to a mix of MEPs and policymakers from across Europe. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Gave evidence to Home Affairs Select Committee on immigration policy after Brexit |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | I gave evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee as part of their work reviewing immigration policy after Brexit. The evidence I gave was extensively quoted in the Committee's report "Immigration Policy: Basis for Building Consensus" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmhaff/500/50002.htm |
Description | Interview with Nieuwsuur ('Newshour'), which is the Dutch equivalent of BBC Newsnight on Brexit/election 9th June 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | The interview with a flagship Dutch TV news show, comparable with British Newsnight to help the Dutch audience interpret the 2017 election, but also to make them aware of the impact that DUP's part in government will be a potential complication to the fraught Brexit process. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Invited speaker at Conservative Party Conference fringe event hosted by Bright Blue |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | I summarised research on immigration attitudes for a party conference event on immigration after Brexit. The event was very well attended by a mix of politicians, activists, media and third sector organisations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | King's Policy/Public Seminar Jan 24 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presentation of Brexit-related research to broad audience of policy, public and academe |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Major presentation Royal Bank of Scotland -Brexit, Jan 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Major presentation of research on grant-related themes on Brexit for large teams in Royal Bank of Scotland |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | My contribution to the UKICE report re-published in the Telegraph |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | 'The Brexit vote may be the first shot fired in a British culture war' has brought to public attention the impact of identity politics around Brexit on future politics in the UK. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
URL | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/01/31/brexit-vote-may-first-shot-fired-british-culture-war... |
Description | Open lecture at Berlin's Humboldt University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | 27th October 2017 keynote panel speaker at Audit UK: social, political and cultural challenges in the light of Brexit, University of Humboldt, Berlin, Germany. It was attended by over 50 people, and it was a mixed audience with academics, students, general public and some media (radio) present. Many misconceptions about Brexit were corrected in the course of the discussion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Oral Evidence House of Lords Select Committee on Citizenship and Civic Engagement 6th November 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | I gave oral evidence about integration policy and was invited to make recommendations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
Description | Personal one-to-one briefing to President Steinmeier of Germany |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Briefing on Brexit-related issues to President of Germany |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Podcasts |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | This is again a group entry for five or six blog recordings, by Sobolewska and Ford ranging from Europe Desk at the Georgetown University in the US, aimed at graduate students and beyond, to more politicians/policy oriented UK in Changing Europe podcast, and two recordings for Never Mind the Bar Charts; and more student and academic focused Mile End Institute podcast at QMUL, to the general public podcast New Books Network, which has an international following. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Presentation NATO Atlantic Security Committee |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation of Brexit-related and grant-related work on Brexit and immigration to major gathering of NATO officials in Norway (Oslo), Feb 4 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Presentation at British Academy public event on Governing England |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | I presented ongoing work on national identity divides and political choice to a mixed audience of academics, policymakers and third sector workers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Presentation of Research Oslo Film Festival |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presentation of grant-related work on Brexit at major international public festival |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.frittord.no/en/arrangementer/golden-dawn-girls-apner-human-internasjonale-dokumentarfilmf... |
Description | Presentation of Research to European Political Consultants Group |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation of grant-related research |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Presentation of research to Conservative Party HQ |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation of grant-related research on Brexit |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Presentation to CIA/Security Conference, United States incl Pres Obama NSC members |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation of work on Brexit, immigration and populism to major international conference for security services, including entire Security team of President Obama |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Presentation to Canadian MPs/Embassy -March 5 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation of research to Canadian politicians visiting UK wanting information of research on Brexit, Canada House, Trafalgar Square, March 5 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Presentation to Clingendael Institute, The Hague, European Commission Policy Makers Jan 16 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Only academic to present at specially convened event with European Commission and local diplomats in The Hague for discussion on Brexit-related research |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Presentation to the European Parliament Socialists and Democrats working group on Extremism and Democracy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | I presented research findings on immigration attitudes, the radical right and Brexit to an international audience of European Parliament politicians, researchers and policymakers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Private briefing Priti Patel MP - Jan 22 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Private briefing on Brexit-related issues for Member of Parliament |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Speaker at New Economy Foundation public event on the politics of Brexit |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | I participated in a panel event with the New Economics Foundation discussing the politics of Brexit, held in London. The event was well attended (c.100 in the room) and was filmed for broadcast on the NEF website. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Student event about Brexit and public opinion |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | PPE Society at University of Manchester invited me to a Question Time style debate on Brexit and public opinion. It was well attended by both undergraduate and graduate students. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://manchester.carpe-diem.events/calendar/9854326-debate-post-brexit-policy-and-public-opinion-a... |
Description | Talk and evidence dissemination with Tony Blair Institute for Global Change |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | I gave a talk on post-Brexit political divides, and shared extensive research on immigration attitudes and policy with senior researchers at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. This research was integrated into two recent reports written by the Institute. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Talk to Human Rights Watch on immigration attitudes after Brexit |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | I presented ongoing research from the project and earlier immigration attitudes work to an audience of senior executives and researchers from the major international NGO "Human Rights Watch". |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | University of Durham |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Around 40 students and staff at University of Durham attended my talk about identity politics and Brexit. It led to a heated discussion afterwards. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.dur.ac.uk/sgia/about/events/?id=41961&eventno=41961 |
Description | Westminster policy event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | "Brexit: one year to go" UK in the Changing Europe and the Library of the House of Commons event, Palace of Westminster, filmed by BBC Parliament 19th of March 2018 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |