Before, during and after the EU referendum campaign, King’s experts contributed to ongoing discussions about the biggest political decision the UK has made in a generation.

Anand Menon,  Professor at King’s  Department of European & International Studies,  heads the ESRC funded and King’s backed,  The UK in a Changing Europe,  the only independent, impartial and non-partisan organisation involved in the EU referendum. Professor Menon made hundreds of media appearances including BBC, ITV News, Sky, national newspapers and magazines, local and international media and online. He wrote numerous op-eds including  this one in the Guardian,  defending academics, written with Jonathan Portes.

Anand and senior fellows from the project frequently gave briefings to civil servants, politicians, the BBC, and media, businesses, leading Leave and Remain campaigners and presented evidence to the House of Commons’  Foreign Affairs Select Committee  and the House of Lords’  EU Select Committee.  The project also organised talks at schools, colleges, universities and townhalls throughout the country and held an event involving several schools at King’s.

The UK in a Changing Europe reached out as far and wide as possible and produced  this video: EU – how to decide,  which was seen by more than 50,000 young people. King’s continues to back this successful initiative, which is needed just as much now as before the referendum as the UK scrambles to understand and explain the process and impact of Brexit.

Academics from across King’s also appeared in the media including  Professor Vernon Bogdanor CBE FBA,  Dr Andrew Blick,  Professor Alexander Türk  and  Dr Martin Moore,  demonstrating King’s wide ranging expertise on international relations and EU/UK politics. A number of different events took place at King’s, notably within the  Centre of European Law  in the  Dickson Poon School of Law,  examining the state of play and future directions of the UK in Europe from a  foreign,  security,  defence and  domestic  perspective.

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