Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), which is part of UK Research and Innovation, and based at King’s College London, the Initiative will explore the three key aspects of UK and EU dynamics.
The research findings will be presented through events, workshops, debates, talks, e-books, briefing papers, reports, blogs, social media and the press.
Impact of EU policies
How EU policies make a difference in areas such as the single market, financial regulation, trade, investment, growth and the free movement of people.
Attitudes towards the EU
Social and political attitudes, the nature of euroscepticism, generational differences, the media’s role.
A Changing UK in a Changing EU
Differences in public opinion in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales; implications of constitutional changes in the UK and implications of British exit for different parts of the UK.
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Our Staff
Professor Anand Menon
Director of UK in a Changing Europe
Anand Menon is Director of the UK in a Changing Europe and Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King’s College London. He has written widely on many aspects of EU politics and policy and on UK-EU relations. He is a frequent contributor to the media on matters relating to British relations with the EU.
Tim Bale
Deputy Director at the UK in a Changing Europe
He focuses mainly on political parties and on the politics of immigration. As well as edited works and journal articles he has published books on the Tory and Labour parties and is the author of European Politics: a Comparative Introduction. Tim has written for almost every UK newspaper and appears on radio and television programmes worldwide.
Jill Rutter
Senior research fellow
Previously, Jill was programme director at the Institute for Government (IfG) directing the organisation’s work on better policy making and Brexit. She is an experienced former senior civil servant, having worked in HM Treasury, Number 10 and Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra). Jill’s writing is frequently in the media and she is a regular commentator on radio and television and tweets
Professor Daniel Wincott
Director of Governance after Brexit
A political scientist and policy analyst by background, he has developed wide-ranging research interests and an enthusiasm for working across disciplines (politics, law, socio-legal studies, social and public policy). His research ranges over such issues as: devolution and territorial governance; Constitutional law and politics; comparative welfare state theory and analysis; European integration, especially in the areas of social policy and law.
Dr Alan Wager
Research associate
Dr Alan Wager is a Research Associate at the UK in a Changing Europe. Previously, Alan was By-Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge and a researcher at the London School of Economics and the University of Manchester. His PhD thesis - concerning inter-party and operation in British politics - was completed at Queen Mary, University of London, where he taught undergraduate modules on British politics.
Matt Bevington
Public policy and foreign affairs analyst
Matthew Bevington is a public policy researcher at The UK in a Changing Europe, with an academic background in international relations. His research interests include trade, economics, fiscal policy and economic geography. His work has appeared in the Times Red Box, Financial Times Brexit Briefing, Prospect Magazine and the New Statesman.
Professor David Bailey
Senior Fellow at the UK in a Changing Europe
David Bailey is Professor of Business Economics at the Birmingham Business School, Editor-in-Chief of the journal 'Regional Studies', and Chair of the RSA Europe Foundation. For the UK in a Changing Europe Initiative, his Fellowship 'Changing Lanes? Brexit and UK Automotive' looks at the impact of Brexit on UK manufacturing, especially automotive, with particular emphasis on Brexit's impacts and implications for corporate strategies and industrial policy.
Professor Catherine Barnard
Senior Fellow at the UK in a Changing Europe
Catherine Barnard is a Professor in European Union Law and Employment Law at the University of Cambridge. Her project looks at the lived experience of working as an EU migrant in the UK, in the run up to Brexit and beyond.
Professor Damian Chalmers
Professor of EU Law, London School of Economics and Political Science. His specialisation is EU Law and the law of regional organisations. During the fellowship, Damian looked at both the effects of EU law on non EU law States and the different models of regional trade arrangements around the world that may offer alternative models in the event of Brexit.
Professor Laura Cram
Professor of European Politics at the University of Edinburgh and Director of NRLabs Neuropolitics Research. She is currently the Brexit research leader for a collaborative project between the Neuropolitics Research Lab (NRlabs) and Full Fact, the UK’s independent fact-checking organization.
Dr Meredith Crowley
Senior Fellow at the UK in a Changing Europe
Dr Meredith Crowley is a University Reader in International Economics at the University of Cambridge and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Meredith is an expert in International Trade and will specialise in UK Trade Policy post-Brexit.
Professor John Curtice
Senior Fellow at the UK in a Changing Europe
John Curtice is politics professor at the University of Strathclyde and research consultant to NatCen Social Research. He has been co-editor of NatCen’s British Social Attitudes reports since 1994 and co-director of the Scottish Social Attitudes survey since 1999. For the initiative he will be focusing on public opinion and Britain's relationship with Europe and develop a website that brings together key polling data together with commentary and analysis.
Professor Matthew Goodwin
Politics professor at the University of Kent, and associate fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House. Matthew's main area of research is political behaviour in Britain and Europe, with a particular interest in political parties, electoral behaviour, euroscepticism and immigration. For the project he will look at the drivers of public and party-based euroscepticism in the UK.
Dr Sara Hagemann
Assistant Professor in EU Politics, London School of Economics and Political Science. She specialises in questions of transparency and accountability in political systems, policy processes and representation in the European Union, and the link between the EU and national political systems. During the fellowship, Sara focused on how national parliaments - and the UK parliament in particular - can play a more prominent role in EU politics. Sara also provided analysis of the role and influence of the House of Commons and House of Lords in the UK's continued cooperation with its European partners in the case of Britain leaving the EU.
Professor Sarah Hall
Senior Fellow at the UK in a Changing Europe
Sarah Hall is a Professor of Economic Geography at Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nottingham. Sarah's work will focus primarily on Brexit and the UK’s financial services sector, on issues like passporting and how the financial services sector will react to Brexit.
Professor Alison Harcourt
Professor at the Department of Politics, University of Exeter. She is an expert in EU communications regulation and its implications for the UK. Her research project investigated whether changes to communications policy at the European level might affect UK interests and how UK-based stakeholders might change their preferences as a result of Brexit.
Professor Katy Hayward
Senior Fellow at the UK in a Changing Europe
Katy Hayward is a Professor of Sociology at Queen’s University Belfast, and Fellow in the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. Katy has already written for the UK in a Changing Europe, including on our report, Brexit and the Backstop. Her project will focus on the Post-Brexit Status and Future of Northern Ireland.
Professor Simon Hix
Professor of European and Comparative Politics, and the Harold Laski Professor of Political Science, at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His main areas of research and teaching are comparative democratic institutions and politics, elections and decision-making in the European Union. For the project he looked at the positions and influence of UK politicians and civil servants on EU decision-making.
Dr Jo Hunt
Reader at Cardiff University’s School of Law, and an expert in EU law and its implications for the UK, particularly in respect to how it may be applied differently across the devolved regions. For the project she looked at the devolution of legal powers to Wales in the context of the UK's membership of the EU.
Professor Hussein Kassim
Senior Fellow at the UK in a Changing Europe
Professor of Politics, School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies at The University of East Anglia. He was formerly the research leader on a Brexit research team which will monitor, track and explain the changing political context and positions taken by the UK’s negotiating partners, use this understanding to explore the negotiating possibilities available to the UK, and examine the implications of the outcome for the UK, the future of the EU, and the UK’s relationship with the EU. For each member state and institution, it will explain who is in charge, how the negotiating position was defined, the main trade-offs made, and responses to relevant pressures.
Professor Michael Keating
Politics professor at the University of Aberdeen and director of the Economic and Social Research Council’s Centre on Constitutional Change. He recently completed a project on Europe focusing on historical, functional, institutional, political, institutional and normative perspectives on territory. For this project he will look at how the UK is changing within the context of an ever changing Europe.
Professor Nicola McEwen
Senior Fellow at the UK in a Changing Europe
Nicola McEwen is a Professor of Politics at the University of Edinburgh, and Co-Director of the ESRC Centre on Constitutional Change (CCC). Nicola will focus on the devolution settlement and the future of the Union, and the impact that Brexit is having, and could have, on both.
Professor Jonathan Portes
Senior Fellow at the UK in a Changing Europe
Jonathan Portes is Professor of Economics and Public Policy in the Department of Political Economy at King's College London. Previously, he was principal research fellow of the National Institute of Economic & Social Research. Before that he was chief economist at the Cabinet Office, and previous to that chief economist at the Department of Work and Pensions. For this initiative he will look at the economic and social impacts of free movement of workers within the European Union and the broader economic impacts of ‘Brexit.’
Professor Meg Russell
Senior Fellow at the UK in a Changing Europe
Meg Russell is Professor of British and Comparative Politics at University College London and Director of the Constitution Unit. The focus of Meg's research will be the impact that the Brexit process has had so far on Parliament and the Constitution, and the effect on UK institutions when the UK leaves the EU.
Professor Simon Usherwood
Professor of Politics at the University of Surrey. He has been researching euroscepticism since the late 1990s. His work considers broad theoretical and practical questions about this phenomenon, as well as more specific work on the UK, on UK-EU relations, on the role of pressure groups and on the media profile of eurosceptics.
Professor Richard G. Whitman
Director of the Global Europe Centre and Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent. He is an Associate Fellow at Chatham House. His research interests include the external relations and foreign and security and defence policies of the EU, and the governance and future priorities of the EU. For the project he examined the costs and benefits of the UK’s participation in the EU’s foreign, security and defence policies.
