The UK government has tried to encourage Nobel prize laureates and other scientific award winners to work in the country with a fast-track visa scheme launched last year, but it has only had one successful applicant
at University College London and a former foreign secretary of the UK’s Royal Society says he is unsurprised by the finding. “People who win such awards are generally not very mobile and don’t want to uproot themselves and their families unless they’ve got a very good reason to,” he says.
“Many European researchers who are in the UK are leaving,” says Coveney, following the UK’s decision to leave the European Union. European researchers don’t want to come to the UK right now, he says.
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