Mapping the EU referendum debate

该奖学金的目的是提高对欧盟及其与英国关系的理解和辩论的质量。随着英国脱欧公投的临近，这是一个极好的机会，可以捕捉到辩论的全部范围和深度，并将其呈现给广大用户，作为他们辩论的补充。虽然人们对这些问题很感兴趣，但也没有充分考虑学术研究如何有助于促进辩论，并使人们做出更明智的决定。通过结合原创性研究和广泛的产出，研究员将努力实现这些目标。特别是，研究金将及时提供关于全民投票宣传活动的内容和结构的原创性研究，并提供一系列产出，以满足各种受众的需要。通过这样做，它将为深入了解英国在公投后可能走的道路提供丰富的信息来源，因此对英国政治的核心辩论具有持久的价值。因此，奖学金的主要部分将通过收集和分析新材料的工作，参与并促进有关欧盟的公众和学术辩论。这将通过一系列活动来实现，每个活动都旨在与不同的观众建立联系。研究金的核心将是一个基于网络的资源，在正式的10周活动期间和之前的研究金期间，每周提供官方和非官方活动材料的摘要和分析。这一分析将包括：对修辞框架、核心主题和交际渠道的定量分析；以及对辩论模式的定性评价。该资源将逐步开发出一个数据集，在活动结束后，该数据集将用于更多的学术目的，以回顾已经提到的所有要点，并绘制两个活动中的活动人士的地图。这项工作是由整个奖学金的一系列延伸思想作品的生产补充。这篇文章将在不同的网站上发布，以综合现有研究的主要发现和与公投活动有关的关键问题的原始研究。这项工作将主要针对政治和媒体从业人员，尽管以更广泛的公众可以看到的方式编写。这项工作的一个关键渠道将是提案人已经开展的现有工作，他的定期“布鲁塞尔议会”播客自2015年5月大选以来一直在讨论这些问题。此外，这项工作还涉及更狭义的学术领域，在年内组织了两次学术讨论会，将实践者和学者聚集在一起，讨论奖学金主题的关键主题。这将有助于为学术期刊撰写几篇文章，以及思想片段。最后，所有这些活动都将通过社交媒体和大众媒体的积极存在来反映。作为一个值得信赖的评论员和贡献者，该研究员将利用他在Twitter、Facebook、博客和播客上的存在，在辩论出现时提供简洁、快速反应和高频的贡献。同样，将通过努力向印刷和广播机构提供更大的贡献来扩大媒体接触。

The aim of this Fellowship is to improve the quality of understanding and debate about the European Union (EU) and the UK's relationship with it. With the coming referendum on British membership of the EU, there is an excellent opportunity to capture the full scope and depth of the debate and to present it back to a wide range of users as a supplement to their debates. While there has been a lot of interest in these questions, there has also been insufficient consideration of how academic research might help to facilitate the debate and enable people to make more informed decisions. Through a combination of original research and a wide range of outputs, the Fellow will work to achieve these aims.In particular, the Fellowship will provide original research in a timely manner on the content and structure of the campaigning surrounding the referendum, with a range of outputs designed to meet the needs of a full range of audiences. In so doing, it will offer a rich source of insight into the potential paths that the UK might follow after the vote itself and so have lasting value to a core debate in British politics.Thus, the main part of the Fellowship will concern itself with engaging in, and contributing to, the public and academic debate on the EU, through its work in collecting and analysing new material. This will be done through a series of activities, each designed to connect with different audiences.The centrepiece of the Fellowship will be a web-based resource that provides weekly summaries and analysis of the official and unofficial campaign materials, throughout the formal 10-week campaign period and the period of the Fellowship preceding that. This analysis will consist: of quantitative analysis of rhetorical frames, core themes and channels of communication used; and of qualitative reviews of the pattern of debate. The resource will progressively develop a data set that will then be turned towards more academic purposes after the campaign concludes, to review all of the points already mentioned, as well as a mapping of the activists in both campaigns.This work is complemented by the production of a series of extended thought pieces throughout the Fellowship. This pieces will be published online, in a variety of locations, to synthesise the key findings of existing research and the original research into key questions relating to the referendum campaign. This work will be directed mainly at practitioners in politics and the media, although written in a manner that the wider public can access them. A key channel for this work will be the already existing work being undertaken by the proposer with his regular "A Diet of Brussels" podcasts that have been discussed such points since the May 2015 general election.There is also a more narrowly academic strand to the work, with the organisation of two colloquia during the year, to bring together practitioners and academics to discuss the key themes of the Fellowship's theme. This will contribute towards the production of several articles for academic journals, as well as the thought pieces, Finally, all of these activities will be mirrored by an active presence in both social media and in the mass media. Capitalising of existing strengths in both areas as a trusted commentator and contributor, the Fellow will use his presence on Twitter, Facebook, blogging and podcasting to produce concise, rapid-response and high-frequency contributions to debates as they emerge. Similarly, media contacts will be extended by working to produce more substantial contributions to print and broadcast outlets.