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Local Industrial Strategies can capitalise on gaps in UK climate and resource policies

Dr Kate Scott By Kate Scott Filed Under: Cities and Environment, Digital Futures, Energy and Environment Posted: January 23, 2019

As the UK and many local regions embark on developing and implementing industrial strategies Dr Kate Scott from the School of Environment, Education and Development argues it is crucial to identify how their strengths can support innovation and development for low carbon transitions. This is particularly true in light of the government’s recent announcement that […]

Tagged With: #SDG, #SDG Climate Action, #SDG Industry Innovation and Infrastructure, #SDG Responsible Production and Consumption, #SDG Sustainable Cities and Communities, Business Energy & Industry, climate change, Climate Policy, Digital Futures, Energy efficiency, energy policy, Industrial Strategy, Local industrial Strategy, productivity, Resource efficiency, SEED, sustainability

Beyond technology: addressing the social and sustainability challenges of next generation industrial systems

By Philip Shapira Filed Under: Digital Futures, Industry 4.0, Science and Engineering, Science and Technology Posted: January 22, 2019

This week’s annual gathering of the World Economic Forum in Davos will discuss prospects for ‘Globalisation 4.0’, with participants debating how to match a global economy increasingly driven by new technology and the movement of ideas, people, and goods, with citizens around the world looking to ‘take back control’. Professor Philip Shapira from the Manchester […]

Tagged With: #SDG, #SDG Climate Action, #SDG Decent Work and Economic Growth, #SDG Industry Innovation and Infrastructure, #SDG Responsible Production and Consumption, AMBS, Business Energy & Industry, climate change, consumption, Davos, fourth industrial revolution, Globalisation 4.0, Industry 4.0, MIOIR, productivity

A lonely new year: how can we prevent loneliness in older age?

By Natalie Cotterell Filed Under: Growth and Inclusion Posted: January 16, 2019

The post-Christmas lull is deemed to be a particularly lonely time for many individuals. As ‘Blue Monday’ fast approaches, Natalie Cotterell, PhD student in Social Statistics, discusses the challenges to successfully tackling loneliness. Approximately 14% of the UK population has reported that they often feel lonely, and this number has been found to rise to […]

Tagged With: #SDG, #SDG Good Health and Well-Being, #SDG Reduced Inequalities, age, communities, Health & Social Care, health and social care, inequalities, loneliness, older people

Shot of hospital ward with doctors in background

When is a plan not a plan? Reflections on the NHS Long Term Plan.

By Kath Checkland and Jon Hammond Filed Under: All posts, Health and Social Care Posted: January 14, 2019

Professor Kath Checkland and Dr Jon Hammond of the University’s Health Organisation, Policy and Economics unit (HOPE) share their thoughts on the Government’s new ‘Long-Term Plan’ for the NHS.  The new NHS Long Term Plan, and the investment associated with it, are welcome announcements but still fall short of most accepted definitions of ‘plan’ A full […]

Tagged With: #SDG, #SDG Good Health and Well-Being, #SDG Reduced Inequalities, Health & Social Care, Health inequalities, HOPE, inequalities, NHS, social care

Pharmacist stocking antibiotic shelf

Understanding antibiotic resistance: A national antibiotic prescribing dashboard for policymakers

By Katie McCall Filed Under: All posts, Digital Futures, Health and Care, Health and Social Care Posted: January 8, 2019

Antibiotic resistance has been a major concern of policymakers for decades, with wide-ranging impacts upon the world’s food production, sanitation, hospital treatment, and population health systems. Here, Katie McCall of Greater Manchester Connected Health City (GM CHC) discusses how their newly launched antibiotic prescribing dashboard can help healthcare stakeholders and policymakers to understand the extent […]

Tagged With: #Reduced Inequalities, #SDG, #SDG Good Health and Well-Being, antibiotics, GPs, Greater Manchester, Health & Social Care, Health and Care, Health inequalities, inequalities, innovation, NHS, pharmacy, technology

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

Miguel Martínez Lucio By Miguel Martínez Lucio Filed Under: Digital Futures, Growth and Inclusion Posted: January 2, 2019

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 […]

Tagged With: #SDG, #SDG Decent Work and Economic Growth, #SDG Industry Innovation and Infrastructure, #SDG Peace Justice and Strong Institutions, Business Energy & Industry, corporate governance, Digital Futures, innovation, justice, productivity, WEI, worker influence, worker ownership, worker participation, workforce

Gilets jaunes, Extinction Rebellion and neoliberal climate policy

Prof Matthew Paterson By Matthew Paterson Filed Under: Digital Futures, Energy and Environment, Europe Posted: December 20, 2018

#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 […]

Tagged With: #SDG, #SDG Climate Action, #SDG Sustainable Cities and Communities, Carbon pricing, carbon reduction, climate change, Climate Policy, Digital Futures, Extinction Rebellion, Gilets Jaunes, SoSS, sustainability

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

By Meghan Tinsley Filed Under: Ethnicity, Growth and Inclusion Posted: December 17, 2018

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 […]

Tagged With: #SDG, #SDG Reduced Inequalities, diversity, education, equality, history, inequalities, Racial Inequalities, racism, schools

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

By Pierre-Richard Agénor Filed Under: All posts Posted: December 10, 2018

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 […]

Tagged With: #SDG, #SDG Decent Work and Economic Growth, #SDG Industry Innovation and Infrastructure, #SDG Peace Justice and Strong Institutions, Business Energy & Industry, economy, financial regulation, financial stability, Global Banking, International Policy Coordination, justice, productivity

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

Alice LarkinClaire Hoolohan By Alice Larkin and Claire Hoolohan Filed Under: Cities and Environment, Digital Futures, Science and Technology Posted: November 19, 2018

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 […]

Tagged With: #SDG, #SDGLifeBelowWater, #SDGLifeOnLand, Cities and Environment, Digital Futures, environment, interdisciplinary, Life Below Water, Life on Land, nexus, sustainability, trans-disciplinary

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