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Breaking barriers: supporting people with Long COVID to return to work

Dr Ruth Wiggans By , and Filed Under: All posts, Growth and Inclusion, Health and Care, Work Posted:

Supporting people with long-term disabilities to enter, or re-enter, the labour market is a key priority for policymakers. Here, Dr Hua Wei, Dr Sarah Daniels, and Dr Ruth Wiggans outline new research into what works – and doesn’t work – for those with Long COVID returning to work, how this can inform wider reforms to […]

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Working at home or living at work?

Headshot of Afshan Iqbal By Filed Under: All posts, Work Posted:

Changes in working patterns were accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Remote and hybrid work arrangements have resulted in expectations on employers to reconsider their business continuity and operational strategies. The impacts of these new working patterns on employees’ physical and mental health are still being explored. In this article, Dr Afshan Iqbal assesses the challenges […]

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Enabling Pharmacy First: overcoming recruitment and retention challenges in the pharmacy workforce

Ellen headshot By and Filed Under: Health and Care, Health and Social Care Posted:

The community pharmacy sector is set to play an increasingly important role in integrated primary care, exemplified through Pharmacy First. Through this drive to relieve pressure on other areas of primary care, both pharmacists and pharmacy technicians assume expanded roles and greater responsibilities. However, the vacancy rate amongst pharmacy technicians in particular risks undermining policies […]

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Employing a fairer system – improving the labour market for vulnerable groups

Jill Rubery By , and Filed Under: All posts, UK economy, Work Posted:

The Employment Rights Bill sets out proposals to strengthen labour market protections, reduce welfare spending and tackle economic inactivity. It is positioned as a mechanism to deliver the broader policy objective to ‘make work pay’, which includes supply-side reforms designed to tackle unemployment and labour market inactivity. In this article, Mat Johnson, Jill Rubery and […]

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Don’t worry about the future, what about the ‘now of work’?

By and Filed Under: All posts, Growth and Inclusion, UK economy, Work Posted:

Amongst all the competing predictions about what the future of work might hold, the challenges of achieving decent work in the foundational economy have been largely overlooked. Here, Dr Mat Johnson and Dr Eva Herman argue that the focus should be on making tangible improvements to the working lives of those in the frontline roles that keep […]

Re-skilling places: A new approach for reducing regional inequalities

Headshot of Eric Lybeck By Filed Under: All posts, British Politics, Devo, Education, Growth and Inclusion, Inclusive Growth, Levelling up Posted:

Current models of education and social mobility take an individualist approach that encourage young people from rural areas and small towns to move to city centres to obtain qualifications and skills. But this approach worsens regional inequalities, as places outside of urban centres are left behind. In this article, from our Power in Place publication, […]

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Gender equality and the productivity agenda

Jill Rubery By Filed Under: Education, Growth and Inclusion, OnProductivity, UK economy Posted:

The implications for gender equality are rarely discussed in the new productivity and levelling up agenda. It is key for productivity and levelling up policy agendas to address the underutilisation of women’s potential and the undervaluation of women’s work. In this blog, Professor Jill Rubery from the Work Equalities Institute investigates the underutilisation of women […]

Making light work: Recommendations for healthy lighting

By and Filed Under: Cities and Environment, Health and Care, Science and Technology, Urban Posted:

Light exposure has important effects on human health and wellbeing, regulating our sleep/wake cycles, and influencing our mental and physical health. Advances in our understanding of the role of light in health, and emerging lighting technologies, now present opportunities to adjust lighting to promote optimal physical and mental health and performance. In this blog, Professor […]

Public transport and the pandemic: perceptions of risk and mitigation

By and Filed Under: All posts, Cities and Environment, Health and Care, Urban Posted:

Throughout the pandemic, public transport has been identified as a significant potential hub of transmission for the disease, with messaging urging people to avoid it wherever possible. Despite this guidance, however, there was little evidence on how great this risk was, or the effectiveness of mitigation measures such as masks and ventilation. In this blog, […]

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The Levelling-up Budget?

By Filed Under: All posts, British Politics, Budget, Growth and Inclusion, Inclusive Growth, News Posted:

The Conservative Government’s 2019 general election manifesto included a promise to ‘listen to the people who have felt left behind’. There was also a commitment in the Budget 2020 to drive economic growth sustainably and improve living standards by boosting productivity and levelling up skills across the UK, along with future commitments to increase investment […]

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