Four international scientists explain how a grant debacle stemming from Brexit has affected their research and career plans.
The European Research Council is withdrawing grants from almost 150 UK-based researchers unless they move their lab to the European Union.UK science suffered a significant setback in June, when the European Research Council confirmed that 143 UK-based researchers would forfeit their prestigious ERC grants unless they relocated to a country in the European Union.
I received a €2-million ERC grant in March to study the links between precarious work and authoritarian politics in the global south. I study politics, but I also live with its consequences. I’ve already had to leave my home country of Brazil because of persecution from the administration of President Jair Bolsonaro and its supporters, and now I need to leave the United Kingdom because of political actions.
In those early days, I couldn’t get any information about UKRI grants, but I didn’t want a UKRI grant anyway, because I didn’t trust the UK government. I decided very quickly that I wanted to move to a place where I could keep the ERC grant. But the process wasn’t easy. I received offers from several universities that included terrible compensation packages.
In March, I received an ERC grant worth nearly €2 million to study the impact of climate change on different cold-blooded species. Winning that grant was a huge accomplishment for me. I had been out of research completely for five years while teaching at a small college in the United States. Not many people manage to get back into research after so long. I had to fight for any sort of funding, large or small.
Moving isn’t easy, especially with a family. We bought a house just last year and now we will have to start again. But my research will go on. UCD has excellent facilities and the ERC has allowed me to postpone the start of my project to February 2023. My contract at UCD starts at the beginning of the 2022–23 academic year, so I’ll have time to get things set up.
I have friends in Switzerland who are in a similar position, because there’s no agreement between Switzerland and the EU to allow them to apply for ERC grants. They can get funding, but it’s only on a national scale. That just doesn’t carry the same weight.
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