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Expert insight, analysis and comment on key public policy issues

The return of industrial democracy: preparing the ground for dealing with wayward capitalism?

Miguel Martínez Lucio By Filed Under: Digital Futures, Growth and Inclusion Posted:

Miguel Martínez Lucio, Professor in the Work and Equalities Institute and the Alliance Manchester Business School at The University of Manchester, and an expert of worker participation, trade union questions and the role of the state, discusses the renewed interest in industrial democracy and the need for a strategic plan. There is a growing interest […]

Gilets jaunes, Extinction Rebellion and neoliberal climate policy

Prof Matthew Paterson By Filed Under: Digital Futures, Energy and Environment, Europe Posted:

#SDG Two protest movements erupted in the UK and France on November 17th, with apparently opposite logics. Here, Matthew Paterson, Professor of International Politics in the School of Social Sciences, argues that both movements are a result of the way carbon pricing is been both regressive socially and woefully inadequate in climate terms. This centre […]

Empire and the World War One Centenary: Remembrance as racialisation?

By Filed Under: Ethnicity, Growth and Inclusion Posted:

Dr Meghan Tinsley, a Presidential Fellow in Ethnicity and Inequalities, reflects on the four years of the First World War centenary, asking to what extent collective memory of the war remains white and Eurocentric. She argues that in pursuit of a more global narrative of past and present, history curricula should emphasise three themes: the […]

Promoting financial stability in a financially-integrated world economy: Is there scope for international policy coordination?

By Filed Under: All posts Posted:

Greater international financial integration in recent decades has increased the scope for cross-border financial spillovers from one group of countries to another. Do these spillovers, and the resulting financial risks that they create for the world economy, provide greater scope for international policy coordination in the area of prudential policy? In an ongoing joint research […]

Keynote for Industrial Strategy panel discussion

By Filed Under: All posts, Cities and Environment, Digital Futures, News Posted:

On 29 November 2018, academics, representatives from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) and the Government collaborated at an event to help inform policy priorities for Greater Manchester’s Local Industrial Strategy. Minister for Business and Industry Richard Harrington MP was joined by Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham, to speak about ‘Delivering the Grand Challenges […]

Transforming the response to drug and alcohol dependent perpetrators of domestic abuse

David Gadd By Filed Under: Featured Posted:

As the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign has just started, David Gadd, Professor of Criminology (The University of Manchester), Juliet Henderson (King’s College London), Polly Radcliffe (King’s College London), Danielle Stephens-Lewis (University of Worcester), Amy Johnson(University of Worcester) and Gail Gilchrist (King’s College London) discuss the research they have been undertaking as […]

Messy but meaningful – how to make interdisciplinary water-energy-food-environment research more influential

Alice LarkinClaire Hoolohan By and Filed Under: Cities and Environment, Digital Futures, Science and Technology Posted:

UK academia is arguably at the forefront of the kind of inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary research needed to tackle global grand societal challenges. This distinctive mode of research aims to be policy-relevant and impactful, but by its nature is often messy, complex and difficult to communicate. Here, a group of academics from The University of Manchester […]

Immigration in its place: how policy needs to recognise geography

Ken Clark By Filed Under: Ethnicity, Growth and Inclusion Posted:

Ken Clark, Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, examines the Migration Advisory Committee’s recent report and discusses the need for place-based migration policy. The Migration Advisory Committee has persistently rejected calls for regional variation in the framework that regulates migration in the UK. It is clear that patterns of migration, and thus its […]

Humanity in the spotlight: the investor’s responsibility

By Filed Under: Growth and Inclusion Posted:

As The University of Manchester prepares to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Dr Lara Bianchi from the Business and Human Rights Catalyst at the Alliance Manchester Business School discusses the responsibility investors have in ensuring human rights are part of a company’s strategy. 82% of all of the growth […]

What happens to those who ‘miss the mark’ in GCSE English and maths?

Ruth Lupton By , , and Filed Under: Education, Growth and Inclusion Posted:

As part of the publication of a new working paper on the characteristics and post-16 transitions of GCSE ‘lower attainers,’ Ruth Lupton, Sanne Velthuis, Stephanie Thomson and Lorna Unwin reflect on the progress made by those with lower GCSE attainment during the 16-18 phase, and highlight the need for appropriate, high-quality post-16 provision for all […]

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