🎉Very happy to share that our project (joint with Dalila Ribaudo, Charlotte Hoole & Chloe Billing) 'Building winners: the #policy levers for impactful #innovation ' was selected for funding from the Innovation & Research Caucus. Tune in for more info 👇

Centre for Business Prosperity, Aston Business School, City-REDI, Bham Business School

How to improve regional productivity levers by Helen Tilley Jack Newman Charlotte Hoole Andrew Connell 🇺🇦 & Ananya Mukherjee. The authors contribute to the discussion by considering whether UK regions have the policy levers to drive productivity and inclusivity.
regions.regionalstudies.org/ezine/article/…

We are delighted to announce that the 2024 Regional Studies Policy Debates Best Paper is awarded to Helen Tilley Jack Newman Charlotte Hoole Andrew Connell 🇺🇦 & Ananya Mukherjee for 'A place-based system? Regional policy levers & the UK’s productivity challenge.' More at bit.ly/4aucyru

To coincide with receiving this award, we have written a 🆕 blog post for International Public Policy Observatory summarising the paper: theippo.co.uk/how-to-improve…

Helen Tilley Charlotte Hoole Andrew Connell 🇺🇦 Ananya Mukherjee

Always nice to present ⁦⁦Regional Studies Association⁩ #Bestpaper award for #Policy Debates ⁦Regional Studies⁩ Congratulations to Ananya Mukherjee, ⁦Jack Newman⁩, Helen Tilley, ⁦Charlotte Hoole⁩ & Andrew Connell 👏🍾 ⁦👇🏼 youtu.be/KYc9m35oskE

Delighted that our paper has won 🏆Best Paper Award 2024🏆 for Regional Studies Policy Debates.

regionalstudies.org/news/2024-regi…

📄A place-based system? Regional policy levers and the UK’s productivity challenge
✏️Helen Tilley Charlotte Hoole Andrew Connell 🇺🇦 Ananya Mukherjee 🔗doi.org/10.1080/003434…

LIPSIT continues to stimulate relevant insights. Thanks to the team - and particularly to Jack Newman and Charlotte Hoole for continuing to mine it! bit.ly/49DLFkn for a fuller briefing.

Great summary of the challenges of spatial inequality and English devolution from Simon Collinson based on our LIPSIT research, and particularly our paper on England's Catch-22 Charlotte Hoole doi.org/10.1080/215820…

⁦Jack Newman⁩ ⁦Charlotte Hoole⁩ presenting #levellingup ⁦cssjournal⁩

Very much looking forward to today's workshop for the cssjournal Special Issue on #levellingup University of Bath School of Management

We're presenting our paper on the Catch-22 of English devolution Charlotte Hoole Simon Collinson: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Thanks to Phil Tomlinson Felicia Fai Prof David Bailey for organising!

Published online Open Access:

Constraints and enablers of regional environmental policy: governance challenges in England and Wales

Jack Newman, Ananya Mukherjee & Charlotte Hoole

doi.org/10.1080/152390…

#environmentalpolicy #governance #England #Wales

🆕🚨New paper🚨🆕

Power asymmetries in the UK political system are constraining regional environmental policy.

'holistic long-term environmental transitions [require] more fundamental reforms to the structure of political systems'

bit.ly/3tvAn21

Charlotte Hoole Ananya Mukherjee

Very pleased to have had our paper accepted in the Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

Co-authored with Charlotte Hoole & Ananya Mukherjee:
'Constraints and Enablers of Regional Environmental Policy: Governance Challenges in England and Wales'

Further details to follow.

In this paper, Jack Newman Simon Collinson Nigel Driffield Nigel Gilbert & Charlotte Hoole show how England’s political institutions (local and national) undermine attempts to tackle regional inequality.
doi.org/10.1080/003434…
UoMPolitics Policy@Manchester UoM School of Social Sciences

Looking ahead to the Labour Party conference, we have a 🚨 new piece in The Loop. A Political Science Blog from @ECPR 🚨

🆕Why ‘ #levellingup ’ in the UK has so far failed – and what a Labour government might do about it: theloop.ecpr.eu/why-levelling-…

Nigel Driffield Simon Collinson Nigel Gilbert Charlotte Hoole

Very grateful for the opportunity to participate in the Local Policy Innovation Partnership (LPIP) workshops Staffordshire Uni in partnership with City-REDI and University of Birmingham Anne E Green Charlotte Hoole

🚨We have a new paper online today🚨
🔓Open access in Regional Studies🔓

We analyse how England's dysfunctional governance system undermines attempts to tackle geographic inequalities.

doi.org/10.1080/003434…

Simon Collinson Nigel Driffield Nigel Gilbert Charlotte Hoole

Building on our work about England's 'devolution Catch-22', Charlotte Hoole, Simon Collinson and I have a new piece on Campaign for Social Science Academy of Social Sciences.

The Devolution Catch-22: Weak Local Institutions, Uneven Growth and Inequality Across English Regions: acss.org.uk/the-devolution…

Read the latest piece for our #LivingStandards hub to find out how we might better enable local growth strategies and reduce regional inequality.

Simon Collinson Charlotte Hoole City-REDI Uni of Birmingham Jack Newman
The Productivity Institute UoMPolitics

bit.ly/3oGJJpg

New blog post on City-REDI by Charlotte Hoole, Simon Collinson, and I. We summarise our new paper on England's Devolution Catch-22.

Blog post: blog.bham.ac.uk/cityredi/how-e…

Full paper: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…