Populist slogans won’t cut it: the new UK government has nothing to lose and everything to gain by working constructively with scientists and universities.
), the past three years have been a roller coaster for government–academia relations in the United Kingdom. Johnson’s government was fond of slogans like ‘Global Britain’ and ‘science superpower’, and there were some notable achievements. But these were overshadowed by a litany of lows.
In her campaign to become party leader, Truss often spoke of her record of delivery, including securing trade arrangements with other countries in the aftermath of Brexit, the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union. For researchers, however, such deals have by no means outweighed the negative consequences of the Johnson government — of which Truss was part — pursuing the hardest of hard Brexits, that is to say, making a radical break with previous EU arrangements.
One immediate priority has to be funding. The Johnson government established the Advanced Research and Invention Agency , a high-risk, high-reward research funder with a budget of £800 million , at least until December 2024, and modelled on the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA. Truss must now act on a commitment — made by the Conservatives in 2017 — to increase UK spending on research and development across all fields, to achieve an eventual target of 2.
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