The government must maintain free movement for EU academics or risk losing up to 15% of staff at British universities, a leading German academics’ body has warned. “The anti-immigrant focus of the leave campaign and the surge in xenophobia nationally since the referendum have made many foreigners in the UK research community feel less welcome,” Galsworthy said. “But people also worry about their rights as citizens and about the future funding landscape. They are thinking of the next tranche of funding,” Fletcher said, adding that she would seek future funding through UK sources, rather than Horizon 2020. “But if it gets to the point that I can’t get research funding because the environment is detrimental to that, then I would move.”

Source: The Guardian September 25, 2016 14:13 UTC