This policy brief sets out the challenges facing UK
academics working in science, technology, engineering
and medicine (STEM) fields as a result of Brexit. It
enumerates the problems UK universities are facing in
recruiting staff from the EU – and examines whether
they are managing to recruit more academics from the
rest of the world. It then discusses the impact that Brexit
has had on the flows of European workers into sectors
of the economy that employ the most STEM graduates,
and whether the new immigration regime, which
came into operation under the Johnson government,
is liberal enough to offset the loss of free movement.
Then it considers investment, and whether high-STEM
sectors have struggled after the vote to leave the EU.
We conclude with a discussion of the policies that the
government can pursue to improve UK science and
technology after Brexit, both in academia and in the
wider economy.
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