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Recognising the role of key workers now and in the future employment landscape

Miguel Martínez Lucio By Gail Hebson and Miguel Martínez Lucio Filed Under: All posts, Growth and Inclusion, Inclusive Growth Posted: August 18, 2020

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the country has become more aware and appreciative of the workers now called ‘key workers’. However, organisational change and deregulation over recent years has led to high levels of job degradation in key work sectors. In this blog, Gail Hebson and Miguel Martínez Lucio introduce and present research from a range […]

Tagged With: ageing, COVID-19, digital, employment, equalities, equality, gig economy, Health & Social Care, inclusive growth, inequalities, inequality, Key workers, micra, older people, older workers, Pandemic, productivity, public health, Trade Unions Labour Market, transport, WEI, welfare, work & pensions

The voluntary and community sector and COVID-19: Going to war without ammunition?

Tine BuffelPatty Doran author headshotCamilla Lewis By Sophie Yarker, Kirsty Bagnall, Tine Buffel, Patty Doran, Camilla Lewis and Christopher Phillipson Filed Under: Growth and Inclusion Posted: June 16, 2020

COVID-19 has forced us all to rethink how to maintain social connections in the neighbourhoods where we live and work. For the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector (VCSE), this has meant a rapid rethink in how to provide services whilst observing social distancing guidelines. In this blog, Sophie Yarker and Kirsty Bagnall, along with Tine Buffel, Patty […]

Tagged With: age & loneliness, communities, COVID-19, equalities, equality, equality & human rights, GM COVID-19 recovery, Greater Manchester, inequalities, inequality, loneliness, older people, Pandemic, Treasury, voluntary & social enterprise

Building back a gender balanced better – devolution, growth and equalities

Francesca Gains By Francesca Gains Filed Under: All posts, British Politics, Education, Growth and Inclusion, Inclusive Growth Posted: June 11, 2020

As the initial period of lockdown is slowly relaxed, the policy agenda in all parts of the UK is turning to examine recovery from the economic devastation caused by the pandemic. Policymakers in our major city regions are considering how to start up and stimulate economic activity where safe to do so; help firms and […]

Tagged With: COVID-19, devolution, equalities, equality, gender, gender equality, gender inequalities, GM COVID-19 recovery, Greater Manchester, inclusive growth, inequalities, inequality, Levelling Up, Pandemic, Social Justice, women & equalities

Locked down by inequality: Why place matters for older people during COVID-19

Camilla LewisTine BuffelPatty Doran author headshot By Christopher Phillipson, Camilla Lewis, Tine Buffel, Patty Doran and Sophie Yarker Filed Under: Health and Care, Health and Social Care Posted: June 1, 2020

Older people have borne the brunt of deaths from COVID-19, whether in hospital or in care homes. At the same time, the coronavirus emergency sits alongside a crisis in many of the communities in which older people live. In this blog, Chris Phillipson, Camilla Lewis, Tine Buffel, Patty Doran and Sophie Yarker examine how the […]

Tagged With: age, age and loneliness, CMI, communities, COVID-19, equalities, equality, Health inequalities, inclusive growth, inequalities, inequality, local government, loneliness, micra, older people, Pandemic, Social inequalities, Social Justice, WEI

Can we ‘level up’ transport infrastructure across the UK?

Diane Coyle By Marianne Sensier and Diane Coyle Filed Under: Budget, Devo, Growth and Inclusion Posted: January 29, 2020

Professor Diane Coyle and Dr Marianne Sensier have recently conducted research comparing transport infrastructure projects that have used HM Treasury’s Green Book. In this blog they argue that this methodology, alongside political prioritisation of projects in and around London, has reinforced existing success in wealthy, already highly productive parts of the UK. Future infrastructure investment […]

Tagged With: business, Business Energy & Industry, diversity, energy & industry, equalities, equality, inclusive growth, inequalities, inequality, Levelling Up, national railway, productivity, Regional imbalances, transport

Why closing the gender pay gap requires a new debate on fair pay

Jill Rubery By Jill Rubery Filed Under: All posts, British Politics, Growth and Inclusion Posted: February 6, 2018

Professor Jill Rubery, Director of the Work and Equalities Institute at Alliance Manchester Business School examines why progress on closing the gender pay gap within organisations requires a new debate on the principles and practices of fair pay. Similar pay gaps, to those at the BBC, can be expected to be found across the public […]

Tagged With: employment, equalities, gender equality, gender inequalities, inequalities, labour market, productivity, WEI, work

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Healing Divisions: A positive vision for equality and human rights in the UK

By Rebecca Hilsenrath Filed Under: All posts, Brexit, British Politics, Growth and Inclusion Posted: March 13, 2017

As the Prime Minister’s deadline for triggering article 50 looms ever-closer, many questions about the process and implications of Brexit remain unanswered or unclear. Here, Rebecca Hilsenrath, Chief Executive of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, lays out what Brexit could mean for rights in the UK and what the Government needs to do to […]

Tagged With: Brexit, DExEU, equalities, equality and human rights commission, EU, European Court of Justice, human rights, parliament, UK politics

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