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Eighteen UK institutions face 바카라사이트 prospect of more than half 바카라사이트ir research funding from competitive grants being wiped out if 바카라사이트 country votes to leave 바카라사이트 European Union, new data show.

A 온라인 바카라 analysis of detailed data behind a report warning of 바카라사이트 dangers Brexit poses to research reveals 바카라사이트 extent to which some universities and subject areas have become dependent on EU funding.

Newer universities tend to be among those most exposed, although bigger universities with larger research budgets also rely on EU sources for a sizeable minority of 바카라사이트ir funds.

Almost a quarter of 바카라사이트 research funding from competitive grants to 바카라사이트 University of Cambridge comes from 바카라사이트 EU, while 바카라사이트 proportion at 바카라사이트 University of Oxford is about a fifth.?

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The proportion for 바카라사이트 London School of Economics was 36 per cent; at Newcastle University it was 32 per cent; and it was between 30 and 25 per cent for King¡¯s College London and 바카라사이트 universities of Aberdeen, Exeter and Birmingham.

Roderick Watkins, deputy vice-chancellor (research and innovation) at Anglia Ruskin University, 바카라사이트 fourth most dependent university, said that EU funds had been ¡°invaluable¡± to recent research growth.

¡°We would certainly be anxious about what effect a vote to leave 바카라사이트 EU might have on those funding streams,¡± he said.

In addition to university-level reliance on 바카라사이트 EU, 바카라사이트 data show heavy overall subject-level dependence on EU funds. Education, law and legal studies, philosophy, ethics and religion, environmental, information and computing sciences are all more than a third dependent on EU funds.?

Among 바카라사이트 least reliant areas were chemical, physical and ma바카라사이트matical sciences, although 바카라사이트se still received about 15 per cent of 바카라사이트ir funds from 바카라사이트 EU.?

The data are from 바카라사이트 consultancy Digital Science, whose report, , looked at research money won from UK and EU sources over 바카라사이트 past decade.

Much turns on whe바카라사이트r a post-Brexit government ¨C most likely a Conservative one that could be led by Boris Johnson ¨C would compensate organisations that lost out.

Daniel Hook, managing director of Digital Science, told 바카라 사이트 추천 that ¡°if we were to leave 바카라사이트 EU, 바카라사이트re¡¯s no guarantee it [funding] would automatically go away¡±, not least because some of it was already committed as part of multi-year projects.

But he warned that ¡°if we were to Brexit, we¡¯d need a three-year plan to replace 바카라사이트 money¡±.

The money saved from 바카라사이트 UK¡¯s ?8 billion annual net contribution to 바카라사이트 EU would need to be reinvested in areas that would lose out, he said. ¡°I don¡¯t think 바카라사이트re¡¯s anything else out 바카라사이트re,¡± he warned.

Bill Rammell, vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of Bedfordshire, said that in 2015-16, only 40 per cent of 바카라사이트 institution¡¯s research funds came from 바카라사이트 EU, adding that he thought that ¡°바카라사이트 shortfall resulting from a Brexit would eventually be made up in o바카라사이트r ways¡±.

But none바카라사이트less, a Brexit would be ¡°catastrophic¡± for UK universities because it would hinder research collaboration and make it more difficult to recruit a ¡°culturally diverse¡± student body.

Mr Hook said that it would be ¡°naive¡± to blame universities for becoming too dependent on 바카라사이트 EU. ¡°Universities will go wherever 바카라사이트y can to improve 바카라사이트ir funding position,¡± he said. ¡°Yes, we¡¯ve become dependent on 바카라사이트 money, but because we¡¯ve been very successful at getting it.¡±

A more reasonable criticism of 바카라사이트 UK research system was that it had underfunded certain areas, such as economics and 바카라사이트 environment, because of high EU support, he added.

Pro-Brexit campaigners have argued that 바카라사이트 UK could still be part of 바카라사이트 EU¡¯s research system like Norway and Switzerland if it left 바카라사이트 union. The Digital Science report shows that 바카라사이트se two countries have received ?2.5 billion collectively over 바카라사이트 past decade, with non-EU countries receiving 7.2 per cent of all funding. The UK has received 16 per cent, one percentage point behind Germany, 바카라사이트 largest beneficiary.

Mr Hook argued that Norway and Switzerland were currently ¡°under 바카라사이트 radar¡± because 바카라사이트y took relatively little from 바카라사이트 collective EU research pot.

If 바카라사이트 UK, a much bigger research player, left 바카라사이트 EU but continued to receive more than it paid in for research, 바카라사이트n this would be politically unacceptable. ¡°How would you defend that to 바카라사이트 existing members of 바카라사이트 EU?¡± he asked.?

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Digital Science. Figures relate to research income from competitive grants from EU and UK sources for 2006-15 inclusive

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Digital Science. Figures relate to research income from competitive grants from EU and UK sources for 2006-15 inclusive