Export controls applying to academic research
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How the UK's strategic export controls apply to academics, university researchers and their institutions, and when an export licence is needed.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 7
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Governance & assurance
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
How the UK's strategic export controls apply to academics, university researchers and their institutions, and when an export licence is needed. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Overview
- Assess if you need an export licence
- High risk research
- Technology and software
- Working in the cloud
- Collaborating internationally
- Assessing risk of collaboration
- Compliance with export control regime in partner's country
- When UK strategic export controls apply
- Exemptions for the academic community
- In the public domain
- Basic scientific research
- Patent applications
- Limits of academic exemption
- Apply for an export licence
- Transnational education (TNE)
Source and licence
Export Control Joint Unit
AttributionExport Control Joint Unit, ‘Export controls applying to academic research’ (updated 2 August 2024), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026