Despite suggestions that he might leave the United Kingdom as a protest against public funding cuts to basic scientific research , Hawking has continued to work as director of research at the Cambridge University Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics , and indicated in 2012 that he had no plans to retire .
Despite suggestions that he might leave the United Kingdom as a protest against public funding cuts to basic scientific research , [ 267 ] Hawking has continued to work as director of research at the Cambridge University Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics , and indicated in 2012 that he had no plans to retire .