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Post-Brexit Trade Policy: Negotiating Country-by-Country Deals and its Discontents

By Filed Under: All posts, Brexit, British Politics Posted:

As Britain prepares to exit the European Union and as news outlets, think tanks and policy experts try to work out the Government’s strategy and priorities for their exiting agreement and plans post-Brexit, trade policy continues to be a key theme. With the new US administration making clear their country-by-country approach to trade deals, Dr […]

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Short-termism and the future of Britain’s cities

Mike Emmerich By Filed Under: All posts, British Politics, Devo, Urban Posted:

Ahead of the release of his book, Britain’s Cities, Britain’s Future, Mike Emmerich looks at the issue of short-termism in policy making and sets out some ways forwards for addressing the geographic imbalance of economic growth and productivity in the UK’s cities. Encouraging long-term thinking in policy making has long been a challenge, both with […]

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Automatic enrolment into workplace pensions: the view from 2016

By Filed Under: All posts, Growth and Inclusion Posted:

In December, 2016, the UK government announced there would be a review of auto-enrolment, the policy mechanism adopted in 2012 to increase saving in workplace pensions.  University of Manchester researcher Hayley James considers what is known about the impact of auto-enrolment on pension saving so far and which groups this policy is leaving behind. Since […]

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The first cut is the deepest: how the crisis in children and young people’s mental health was created

By Filed Under: All posts, British Politics, Health and Social Care Posted:

In the coming weeks, the House of Commons Education and Health Select Committees will be hearing oral evidence on their inquiry into children and young people’s mental health and the role of education. Members of the Manchester Institute of Education have written three blogs expanding on some of the key issues in their submission and […]

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Young people, social media and the Internet: part of the problem and the solution?

By Filed Under: All posts, British Politics, Health and Social Care Posted:

In the coming weeks, the House of Commons Education and Health Select Committees will be hearing oral evidence on their inquiry into children and young people’s mental health and the role of education. Members of the Manchester Institute of Education have written three blogs expanding on some of the key issues in their submission and […]

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Supporting the mental health of young people in schools

By Filed Under: All posts, British Politics, Health and Social Care Posted:

In the coming weeks, the House of Commons Education and Health Select Committees will be hearing oral evidence on their inquiry into children and young people’s mental health and the role of education. Members of the Manchester Institute of Education have written three blogs expanding on some of the key issues in their submission and […]

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Euratom and leaving the European Union

Francis Livens By , and Filed Under: All posts, Brexit, Energy and Environment Posted:

The pending withdrawal of the United Kingdom from Euratom (the European nuclear regulator) has caused controversy, as membership is neither related to nor dependent upon membership of the European Union. Here, The University of Manchester’s Professor Juan Matthews, Professor Francis Livens, and Professor Tim Abram explain what this move will mean for the British nuclear […]

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The value of public involvement in dementia research

Clarissa Giebel By Filed Under: Health and Social Care Posted:

Late last year, dementia overtook heart disease to become the leading cause of death in England and Wales. The immense impact of dementia on the lives of families and the challenge of providing adequate health and social care for patients makes it essential that dementia research connects to the needs of those it seeks to […]

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Greater Manchester – leading the way in age-friendly policy making

By Filed Under: All posts, Urban Posted:

Thursday 16th February saw the Greater Manchester Ageing Conference, held by the GM Ageing Hub, of which MICRA, the Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing, is a part . To celebrate the conference, and to highlight the policy implications of living in an ageing society, MICRA have teamed up with Policy@Manchester to deliver a week […]

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It’s not how old you are that matters, so much as how you are old

By Filed Under: All posts, Health and Social Care Posted:

Thursday 16th February sees the Greater Manchester Ageing Conference, held by the GM Ageing Hub, of which MICRA, the Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing, is a part . To celebrate the conference, and to highlight the policy implications of living in an ageing society, MICRA have teamed up with Policy@Manchester to deliver a week […]

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