Negotiating the future. The UK's repositioning in Europe: processes and consequences

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The UK's departure from the European Union will be a historic development for the UK, the EU and the wider continent. This project will examine the evaluation of the UK's relationship with its European neighbours over the next three years: it will research and report on three aspects the approach of the UK and the EU to the negotiations on the future UK-EU relationship - what position each takes, and the actors who are included and excluded on each side; it will monitor the progress of the negotiations and examine the implications, both of the most likely scenarios for the 'macro' model of the relationship - the 'Norway model' and its variants, the Canadian Economic and Trade Agreement, a Swiss-style bilateral, 'No Deal' - and for the governance of key policy sectors, including aviation, competition policy, and financial services, that are up for negotiation under the terms of the Political Declaration; and it will examine the UK's bilateral strategy to strengthen relations with EU member states, its relations with European countries outside the EU, and the impact of Brexit on international arrangements covering security and other key fields.The project will deliver an authoritative account of developments that will fundamentally recast the UK's position in Europe . Research activities will be based in the first instance on synthesising existing research, but since past work alone can provide only a foundation for the analysis of fast-moving and complex developments, the project will also include new research, in particular the analysis of primary documentation and commentary, and interviews with key decision-makers, stakeholders, and informed observers across Europe. It will build to gain access on the PI's network of contacts, developed over a career of researching the relationship between the EU and the member states, experience as a Senior Fellow in the first round of calls under the programme, and through leadership of the ESRC-funded project, 'Negotiating Brexit', which brought together an observatory of experts covering 15 member states, the main EU institutions, the UK, and Norway as the largest state in EFTA.With an ambitious plan of engagement and knowledge exchange activities, the project will produce and disseminate informed analysis using a variety of channels and outputs that will meet the demand from the public, as well as more specialist requirements from decision makers, parliamentarians, the devolved authorities, regulators, business, workers and other interests in the UK and elsewhere. It will thus advance the 'UK in a Changing Europe's mission of providing an authoritative and independent reference point for high-quality research-based information on Brexit. Such analysis is especially important, since, as the Article 50 negotiations have shown, the political debate in the UK has tended to neglect the positions of the EU27 and media coverage to focus on largely on Westminster.The research team will actively engage with users throughout the project's duration. It will deliver research syntheses, reports, blogs, and other material that are easily accessible to policy makers, businesses, journalists, civil society organisations, educational institutions and the general public, interested in the UK's relationship with the EU. These publications will be made available via a dedicated project website and the 'UK in a Changing Europe' knowledge hub at King's College London. The dissemination programme includes local, national and international events, including a 'town hall', public lectures, and talks to sixth-formers in Norwich, and and an annual international conference on the negotiations, as well as addresses to meetings organised by community groups, participate in panels. As a Senior Fellow, I will work closely with the Director of 'The UK in a Changing Europe' and other Fellows, contributing to publications, participating in events, and working with the local, national and international media.