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Dear Stuart As a designer running communication businesses with predominantly overseas/ European employees over the past 15 years, I hate Brexit. Like the science industry, the UK design industry is firmly ahead, not just in Europe but globally (e.g. iPhone designed by Royal College of Art graduate). I think our primary goal now is to maintain these top positions, and find ways of continuing to work with and bring in the international talent that enables us to achieve them. All the best for Sunday Anne Anne Odling-Smee Design Science Unit 4 115 Bartholomew Road London NW5 2BJ design-science.co.uk T +44 (0)20 3772 5404 M +44 (0)7740 770 938 > On 21 Jul 2016, at 08:49, Stuart Farrimond <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Thanks Sam, Edwin, and everyone else for your suggestions and sharing your experiences so far – they are all being taken on board. > > I believe the programme is watched by some 1.8 million people (or thereabouts) and I hope to be able to raise the issue of the impact of Brexit on science. The presenters tend not to linger on one story for too long though, so I would really value any other thoughts or suggestions on other topics, should people have any. > > I note that Vitamin D has hit the news today, and I’m hoping that there will be other science items making headlines. I’m particularly interested if anyone has experiences of working with renewables / research. I believe Oxford Street are going to be trialling some kind of pedestrian-powered electricity generation. Climate change is a hot potato (pun unintentional) and it would be good to raise the profile of what is going on behind the scenes in this area, should the opportunity arise. > > Stu > <> > From: psci-com: on public engagement with science [mailto:[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>] On Behalf Of Sam Davis > Sent: 20 July 2016 15:00 > To: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] BBC Breakfast Paper Review - this Sunday > > Hello Stu, > > I hope your time on the BBC Breakfast sofa is a success. It would be great if you could mention the below as one of many examples of the immediate impact BREXIT is having in companies like ours. > > My company has been working with European-funded projects on many levels for 10 years now and we have had great success in being part of FP6 and FP7 partnerships involving organisations from many EU countries. In the last two years we have been successful in several new H2020 grants and our reputation for providing expert communication and dissemination strategies for research projects is growing nicely. And deservedly so, I should add. We do a great job and we have always received a warm welcome to any consortium we join. There is a definite perception that having a UK company on board brings great value to any project. Or there was! > > We have felt a definite cooling of this warmth post-BREXIT and we are now beginning to see the damage the decision to leave the EU is already having - and will continue to have on British companies working with European partners, particularly in science and research. > > For us, we have recently received news from one of our largest clients, with whom we have worked on several big projects, that as a group they are no longer going to engage with UK companies, at least until any uncertainty is cleared up. When receiving this notification, we were some way into writing a proposal with this group so all that time and effort has been wasted. > > Then yesterday, just before your programme, we received an email from a longstanding client in France who wrote: > > "Your PM Mrs. May has been claiming “BREXIT is BREXIT” at any occasion after the referendum. > For sure this is an extremely bad signal from you Britons to all of us in Europe. I and my colleagues will certainly no longer work with UK companies if we or other European nationals need a visa to come and work in the UK as this is now the intention of your government. > Hope you now manage to do business with others." > > These are just two examples of clear intentions from our European colleagues and friends. > > I think the prevailing mood with many organisations is "why add to stress of writing proposals and putting consortia together by including UK companies? OK, they are often the best, but we can get this support elsewhere in the EU and won't have the worry that at any moment this particular partner will not be eligible for funding". > > Of course, we don't know Britain's position with Horizon 2020 yet, but it is the uncertainty that is putting people off and we, and others, are losing out. > > If we decide no longer to participate in the European funding programme, which has seen Britain rise to the very top of global research league tables and brought in millions of pounds of funding to UK companies, then it will be a complete disaster for our universities and many of our tech and innovation companies. > > Of course, even if we do maintain our contribution to the EU funding pot and are able to participate, we will only be able to do this if we maintain our current acceptance of free movement of people, so that researchers and companies like mine can freely move people to work anywhere needed for any particular project. > > I think we will maintain our contribution to H2020 and subsequent funding programmes - we would, quite frankly be mad not to. But even if this is the case, the current uncertainty is already having a damaging effect and once the uncertainty is over, who is to say that the damage won't already have been done? > > I would be happy to talk further on this matter as I think the more people know of this much ignored matter would be interesting. > > Sam > ___________________ > > Sam Davis > Communications Director > > Insight Publishers Ltd > www.ipl.eu.com <http://www.ipl.eu.com/> > > Projects Magazine > www.projectsmagazine.com <http://www.projectsmagazine.eu.com/> > > +44 117 2033 120 (Phone) > +44 117 3150 400 (Fax) > > Connect on: > Linkedin <http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/sam-davis/23/100/2a3/> > Twitter <https://twitter.com/projectszine> > > Please note, we have an official listing as Project Partner on the CORDIS site <https://cordis.europa.eu/partners/web/williamdavis> > > Think before you print - save trees! > > Registered in England. Registered No: 7264186. Registered Office: 12-13 King Square, Kingsdown, Bristol, BS2 8JH. United Kingdom. Company VAT No: 991 1009 30 > > > > > > >> On 20 Jul 2016, at 11:14, Stuart Farrimond <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> This Sunday morning I will be on the BBC Breakfast sofa for the Sunday Paper review. There are two morning segments (at 0720 and another about an hour later), during which I pick out 5-6 stories to talk about from any of the morning’s papers. The first segment looks at ‘headline’ articles that are in the first 3-4 pages, whereas the later segment is articles from anywhere in the paper. >> >> I am doing the slot as a ‘science / health communicator’ (don’t know what they’ll call me yet) and I wanted to put a shout-out to the science communication / science community so that I may also represent and reflect some of the views about current affairs held by science communicators/educators and scientists as a whole. Obviously, I don’t know what will be in the news on Sunday (although we can have a good guess at certain topics that are likely to feature – e.g. Labour Leadership contest, Brexit, Theresa May’s new government…) but would nevertheless value people’s sentiments and opinions on current affairs / hot topics. >> >> And also, if anyone is aware of news / research findings that are likely to be released and get an airing on Sunday, then please fire it – and any press releases – my way. >> >> Thanks all! >> >> Stu >> >> ********************************************************************** >> psci-com how-to: Once subscribed, send emails for the list to [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>. 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