China's influence on UK research has grown ten-fold in the past 20 years

Work undertaken with Lord Johnson of Marylebone, King’s College London and the Harvard Kennedy School.

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The UK urgently needs to put in place a robust framework for engaging China in research and higher education (HE). China is set to overtake the US to become both the world’s biggest spender on R&D and the UK’s most significant research partner, raising pressing questions for policymakers at a time of rising geopolitical tensions. The extensive relationship with China across our university system, in both teaching and research, is inadequately mapped. The UK needs to do a better job of measuring, managing and mitigating risks that are at present poorly understood and monitored. The full report can be accessed below.

Our unemployment cliff was an act of unnecessary national self-harm

Op-ed jointly written with Rachel Lipson, Project Director of the Project on Workforce at Harvard University.

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On July 31, the clock struck midnight on the expansion of unemployment insurance benefits in the United States. The economic shock is likely to be profound. Families risked reductions in income of up to 64 percent overnight, leading to a large drop in consumer spending at exactly the moment when our economy can least afford it. By some estimates, the net effect of ending the payments in 2020 alone would amount to a 2% decline in US GDP and 1.7 million fewer jobs.