Dr Kathryn Simpson, UK Data Service Research Associate at the University of Manchester, discusses the demand for reliable data to examine the broad ranging issues in the EU referendum debate. Find the data you need at the UK Data Service. Kathryn has been sought after during the campaign for her expertise in comparative European politics, political austria rcs data behaviour and public opinion. Her research covers how attitudes to inequality are linked to attitudes to European integration as well as the link between public attitudes to inequality and public attitudes to the European Union in the context of economic crisis.
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Here is a selection of links to media coverage of Kathryn providing expertise in the lead up to the EU Referndum (please note, the links may not persist):
Brexit – the UK votes to leave the EU
On Thursday 23rd June the British electorate went to the polls to vote in the UK’s second referendum on membership of the European Union (EU)[1]. By Friday morning, less than twenty-four hours after the polls had closed the result was conclusive with 51.9% of the electorate voting to leave the EU. The UK would now begin the process of exiting the EU, an organisation and institution of which it had been a member since the first wave of enlargement in 1973.