Will Shankley, UK Data Service Data Impact Fellow and Sociology PhD Student at The University of Manchester, shares the outcomes of his project investigating the impact of Brexit on Polish migrants.
The vote by the British people on the 23rd of June concerning Britain’s membership of the European Union resulted in a more towards separation. If like me, you’re still struggling to get to grips with what Brexit means and how to engage and digest with all the different debates, discussions and points of view, it makes sense to write taiwan rcs data this blog post about my recent impact work and how it is associated with Brexit. As is apparent in my research biography and previous blog post, my Ph.D. focuses on Polish post-accession people’s residential patterns and decision-making. It appeared, however, intuitive that given the referendum decision and wider interest in the outcome and the after affects of Brexit that I would discuss some of my more recent impact work relating to Brexit. This focuses on two recent conferences that I have attended where I have spoken about my research to different audiences and its association with Brexit.
The first conference was entitled the Radical Statistics Conference: Statistics of Brexit in Edinburgh on the 18th of February. The conference was focused on the different ways of using statistics to answer multiple questions on Brexit. My talk focused on presenting the internal migration patterns of Polish people in England and Wales as evidence of their residential patterns prior to Brexit.