The Director’s View: EU Referendum and Provost’s video

Provost’s Video

I am writing in the light of my recent post on the UK’s EU Referendum to invite all colleagues in UCL Library Services to view the new video from the Provost which addresses some of the immediate questions which staff and students have been posing.

Universities UK and the Russell Group of research-intensive universities are working to safeguard future access to EU funding streams, including for research via Horizon 2020, ERC (European Research Council) and Marie Curie, and for Erasmus exchanges. We will also be working to ensure that staff from other member states of the EU maintain a right to remain and work. We will be fighting to ensure that we maintain the right to free movement of staff and students from Europe and the rest of the world.

I will continue to write on this issue as things develop. Finally, and importantly, the most worrying aspect of the way that this debate has been promoted by the Leave campaign is that it has played on xenophobia and racism. Please know that if you are subject to any form of abuse, or if you witness any, that this is unacceptable behaviour and you will have my full support and that of UCL in addressing it.

 

Paul Ayris

Director of UCL Library Services