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UK and EU flags

Message from the Vice-Chancellor regarding the UK and the European Union

24 Dec 2020

You will all be aware by now that the United Kingdom and the European Union signed a trade agreement earlier today (24 December), ending weeks of...

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Union Flag and EU Flag

No deal Brexit could have detrimental impact for four million people in UK living with a rare disease

11 Dec 2020

Experts have warned that a ‘no deal’ Brexit will result in the exclusion of the UK from the 24 European Reference Networks (ERNs) that were...

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Professor Stephen J Toope, Vice-Chancellor

Vice-Chancellor's annual 1 October address to the University

01 Oct 2019

The Vice-Chancellor marked the start of the new academic year this morning by giving his annual address to the University in the Senate House.

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Close up of production facility

Value of manufacturing to UK economy significantly underestimated, report claims

12 Jun 2019

The economic value of manufacturing to the UK is being underestimated in official statistics, potentially by as much as half, presenting significant...

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Brexit puts UK’s ability to tackle drug-related crime at risk, say experts

03 May 2019

Brexit could threaten the UK’s ability to tackle drug-related crime linked to serious and organised crime, according to public health experts writing...

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The financial trading centre in the heart of London

Gamblers predicted Brexit before financial traders, study finds

11 Jan 2019

Research shows how financial markets should have predicted Brexit hours before they eventually did, and that betting markets beat currency markets to...

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Donald Trump speaking at the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference. Some 44% of Trump voters were found to believe their government is hiding the truth about immigration, according to researchers.

Brexit and Trump voters more likely to believe in conspiracy theories, survey study shows

23 Nov 2018

Latest research reveals the extent to which conspiracy theories have become “mainstream rather than marginal beliefs” across much of Europe and the...

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PM and Brexit Secretary sign commemorative copies of EU (Withdrawal) Act.

Brexit: the three transition options open to the UK

25 Oct 2018

Will the UK agree to an extended transition period, keeping it bound by EU rules for longer after exiting the EU? Here, Professor Kenneth Armstrong...

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Mend the gap: solving the UK’s productivity puzzle

28 Jun 2018

When it comes to the output, education and wellbeing of the Great British workforce, our towns, cities and regions exist on a dramatically unequal...

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All in a day’s work

12 Jun 2018

Researchers at the University of Cambridge are helping to understand the world of work – the good, the bad, the fair and the future.

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At the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding

Cambridge and LMU announce plans for strategic partnership

29 May 2018

Two of Europe’s leading research universities have announced the first step towards plans for a unique ‘strategic partnership’ – underlining the...

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Brexit March

‘Cognitive flexibility’ associated with voting attitudes in EU Referendum, study finds

16 Apr 2018

Latest research combining social and political surveys with objective cognitive testing suggests that “cognitive flexibility” contributes to...

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