Rosarii Griffin (p)

Bernard Fingleton

This paper will discuss ‘The Impact of Brexit on the Higher Education Sector in Ireland - Challenges and Opportunities’ in terms of the EU's Four Core Freedoms. These freedoms are: the free movement of people, capital, goods and services. This paper will examine what Brexit means for Higher Education from an Irish perspective with particular reference to the free movement of people. Following a consideration of other matters, this paper will zone in on two areas of concern: a) the impact of Brexit on Research and Research Funding (including cross-border alliances) and b) the anticipated implications of Brexit for internationalisation within the Irish HEI sector and what this will mean for the Irish Higher Education sector.

Part 1: A history of the EU project and Ireland and the UK’s joint membership role in it, noting key milestones in terms of Treaties, such as Rome, Maastricht, Nice and key agreements, such as the Bologna and Lisbon agreements, etc.

Part II: A brief discussion of how the UK and Ireland HEI sector both contributed to, and benefitted from the EU in terms of research partnerships, collaborations, research funding, schemes, such as EUFP funding, Horizon 2020 and heading into EU Framework 9. This paper will examine how the EU facilitates the free movement of EU citizens within the HEI sector, particularly through ERASMUS, Leonardo da Vinci and other EU-Erasmus + mobility schemes.

Part III: This section will give an overview about the anticipated impact of Brexit on Research and Research Funding including cross-border partnerships, collaborations and synergies. Then, a further discussion will ensure vis-à-vis the anticipated implications of Brexit for internationalisation particularly within the Irish HEI sector

Part IV: The paper will conclude with a section highlighting the challenges and opportunities which may arise from Brexit from an Irish Higher Education perspective.

Conclusion

This paper will conclude with a discussion on the potential challenges and opportunities which may arise from Brexit in relation to the HE sector from an Irish perspective, noting in particular the aforementioned two key areas of concern a) the impact of Brexit on Research and Research Funding (including cross-border alliances and, b) the anticipated implications of Brexit for internationalisation within the Irish HEI sector. We will draw conclusions and make recommendations based on same.

Maria Abreu (p), Ozge Oner

Rosarii Griffin

A number of studies have analysed the role of individual and regional characteristics in explaining the extent of the Leave vote across UK districts and wards, but several unresolved questions remain. In particular, an important issue is the extent to which people with very similar characteristics (in terms of age, education, ethnicity, gender, housing tenure, employment circumstances) voted differently in Remain and Leave areas. This could be due to either contextual effects, where neighbourhood characteristics or social network effects affected the decision to vote Leave, or self-selection, where people selected into neighbourhoods with others who are similar in unobserved ways (psychological profile, attitudes to risk), in a way that also correlates with the propensity to vote Leave. The paper addresses this issue by using a non-parametric matching procedure to disentangle the relative importance of the two types of effect

Bernard Fingleton (p)

Maria Abreu

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