{"id":3188,"date":"2021-05-07T09:55:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T09:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=3188"},"modified":"2021-05-07T09:55:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T09:55:01","slug":"richard-whitman-awarded-british-academy-leverhulme-senior-research-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2021\/05\/07\/richard-whitman-awarded-british-academy-leverhulme-senior-research-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Whitman awarded British Academy\/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British Academy have announced has announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/2271\/whitman-richard-g\">Professor Richard Whitman<\/a>\u00a0as the recipient of one of ten prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk\/news\/senior-research-fellowships-announced-for-10-established-scholars\/\">British Academy\/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships<\/a> for his project on <em>The UK&#8217;s European diplomacy: from accession to Brexit<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The ten fellowships, collectively worth \u00a3547,000, are awarded with the aim of bringing existing research projects, &#8220;typically a career-defining work&#8221; to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It is the culmination of an ongoing project to understand Brexit within the broader context of the UK\u2019s foreign policy conducted within the European Union (EU).&#8217; Professor Whitman explained<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Brexit is the most significant change to the UK\u2019s foreign policy in the last 50 years. The EU has been a core component of the UK&#8217;s foreign policy since its accession to the-then European Economic Community in 1973 and the UK\u2019s diplomacy and foreign policy have been heavily shaped by its membership. The UK Government&#8217;s decision to trigger departure from the EU marked a significant change in the practices, procedures and objectives of British European foreign policy.&#8217; the abstract explains.<\/p>\n<p>This project analyses continuity and change in the UK&#8217;s European diplomatic strategy over the last 50 years. It explores a set of recurring foreign policy dilemmas faced by the UK in order to inform the debate on Britain&#8217;s current and future place in the international relations of Europe. By providing a long view of the issues, the project will help redress the lack of contextualisation in much of the current Brexit-related analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Whitman is also especially delighted to be the holder of the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2018\/sep\/09\/michael-dockrill-obituary\">Michael Dockrill<\/a> Senior Research Fellowship in British Foreign Policy, named after &#8220;a scholar I hugely admired&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Academy have announced has announced Professor Richard Whitman\u00a0as the recipient of one of ten prestigious British Academy\/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships for his project &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2021\/05\/07\/richard-whitman-awarded-british-academy-leverhulme-senior-research-fellowship\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66395,"featured_media":2933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[131000,131002],"tags":[145923,19032,194596,26423,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3191,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions\/3191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}