Select Committee · Foreign Affairs Committee

UK universities’ engagement with autocracies

Status: Closed Opened: 8 Feb 2023 Closed: 28 May 2024

This session seeks to ascertain to what extent the Government has responded to concerns expressed in its 2019 report " A cautious embrace: defending democracies in an age of autocracy " about autocracies' influence on academic freedom. The inquiry will assess how effectively UK universities are responding to the systemic challenge posed by China to …

Oral evidence sessions

1 session
Date Witnesses
28 Feb 2023 Alan Mackay · University of Edinburgh, Dr Tim Bradshaw · Russell Group, Fiona Quimbre · RAND Europe, Professor John Heathershaw · University of Exeter, Sir Anthony Finkelstein · City, University of London, Vivienne Stern · Universities UK View ↗