The Grenfell Tower fire saw 80 or more adults and children die in their homes in an entirely preventable disaster. Here, Gill Kernick, who helps high hazard industries prevent major accidents and personally witnessed the disaster, and Martin Stanley (Editor, Understanding Regulation) argue that the fire was a terrible failure of government, leadership and regulation […]
Hearing impairment: A modifiable risk for dementia?
Dr Piers Dawes is a neuropsychologist from The University of Manchester. Piers’s research in dementia and hearing impairment is funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program. Piers is also part of the NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre’s Hearing Health Theme, which covers prevention, diagnosis and treatment of hearing impairment across the […]
International trade in post-Brexit Britain
Our blog ‘Brexit, Regulation and Society’ blog series, in conjunction with ManReg, continues with City, University of London’s Professor David Collins. Here, Professor Collins reflects on Britain’s existing Bilateral Investment Treaties, and their role as a potential basis for our post-Brexit trading future. Bilateral Investment Treaties were created to protect investors overseas and the UK […]
International students aren’t a visa risk: who’s surprised?
Here Dr Sylvie Lomer explains why international students aren’t a visa risk and outlines how false assumptions have been used as justifications for migration policies that seriously prejudice and inconvenience international students. Recently published Home Office data shows that 97.4% of international students are compliant with visa regulations, contradicting previous statements from Government that 20% […]
Brexit: An opportunity to progress equality and human rights?
Our ‘Brexit, regulation and society’ blog series continues with Rebecca Hilsenrath, Chief Executive of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Her blog, based on her presentation to ManReg‘s recent Brexit event, focuses on how the UK can, and must, maintain its equality and human rights protections throughout the process of leaving the European Union. Equalities […]
Bridging the skills gap: primary to higher education
The UK’s skills gap in science, technology, engineering and maths has been widely acknowledged, but the measures needed to address it are less clear. Here, Donna Johnson, Head of the Science & Engineering Education Research and Innovation Hub, lays out the current debate and argues for cross-sector support between schools and universities and a focus […]
Is having any job at all better for your health and wellbeing than being unemployed?
There are long held assumptions that taking any job is better for a person’s health and wellbeing than being unemployed. A study of over 1000 unemployed adults by Tarani Chandola, Professor of Medical Sociology at The University of Manchester, compared health and stress levels of those remaining unemployed and different quality jobs. The study revealed evidence that […]
Trade Unions, EU workers and ‘Brexit’: More Complexity, Less Certainty
Third in our series of policy blogs developed from MANREG‘s ‘Brexit, Regulation and Society’ event, The University of Strathclyde’s Dr Rebecca Zahn explores the impact of Brexit, trade deals, and EU migration for UK trade unions. Since the ‘big bang’ expansion in 2004, the immigration and working rights within the EU have become highly polarising […]
Time to address the North-South health divide through proportionate economic growth incentives
New research has revealed widening inequality between death rates in the northern and southern England. Here Professor Iain Buchan explains the significance of his research and calls on policymakers to take action and introduce northern weighting in industrial growth funds to address the North-South health divide. There has been an alarming rise since the mid-90s […]
Keeping us charged- addressing energy storage related issues
Last week, the Government announced that new diesel and petrol cars and vans will be banned in the UK from 2040 in a bid to tackle air pollution. In light of this, it was also announced that the Government would invest £246m in battery technology. Here, Richard Fields, a Research Associate at the National Graphene […]
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