I’m doing some training on negotiation in Belgium this week, building on what the organisers imagine is my expertise in this subject and Brexit. Of course, when I said ‘yes’ to the offer six months ago, I had to hedge against making too many promises that reality might break all too obviously. What I’d not […]
Academic freedom isn’t the kind of subject that comes up very often in the UK. I would say it’s benign neglect, but actually it’s just neglect: no-one really seemed to fight that fight and so things just trundled on. We’d watch events in Turkey, Hungary or the US, sigh or tut and then get on […]
In our last post on this, Matthew LeRiche (Memorial) talks about his takeaways from our Brexit game held before Christmas. With the semester now over and course commentary and review in progress it is clear that the Brexit simulation lead by Simon Usherwood in conjunction with Chris Huggins was one of the highlights for […]
This is as guest post from Christopher Huggins (Keele): Over the course of this semester my students at Keele have been taking part in a Brexit negation simulation alongside students from the University of Surrey and Memorial University in Canada. Simon has been posting regular updates about it, but, given the three groups of students […]
This semester, I’ve been running a Brexit simulation with Chris and Matthew (here and here and here). Yesterday, we ran our final session, a two-hour face-to-face negotiation at our campus. We’re still pulling together feedback notes and debriefing students, but generally we’re really happy with how it all went. Since you didn’t get to experience it, […]
This semester I’ve been running a Brexit simulation with Matthew (Memorial) and Chris (Keele). As we’re now moving towards the end phase, I thought it’d be useful to share our progress. Last week, the UK group submitted their notification to invoke Article 50, which is the formal process for leaving the EU. That came with […]
During the second half of this summer I wrote about running a Brexit game, and off the back of that I now have two great partners – Matthew LeRiche (Memorial) and Chris Huggins (Keele) – with whom I’m now doing just that un the run up to Christmas. As I promised, I’m going to keep […]
Last week, I covered some ways you might tackle the current state of British politics, after the EU referendum. Following that, I’ve had some conversations about running a joint simulation during the autumn semester, across institutions, so if you’d be interested in joining that, then drop me a line (s.usherwoodATsurrey.ac.uk) and we’ll see what we […]
In the spirit of not wasting a good crisis, the UK’s decision to leave the European Union offers a great way into understanding a number of political dynamics. Of course, we need to tread a bit carefully here, for a number of reasons. Firstly, this is a highly fluid situation, so whatever one might plan […]
For non-UK readers, you may or may not be aware that we’re having a general election here pretty soon, in what looks like a season 4 finale for “The Brexit Saga” (many, many more seasons still to come). I mention it here mainly because it’s made my home life come a lot closer to my […]