A Greater Manchester approach to tackling radicalisation
As part of a series of blogs, articles and interviews, examining issues of citizenship and community, Dr Ajmal Hussain, Research Fellow in Sociology at The University of Manchester uses his work with...
View ArticleWorse than zero hours contracts: work, pay and (in)equalities in the gig economy
The gig economy is rarely out of the news; former CBI boss Lord Adair Turner is the latest prominent figure to call for the Government to enforce the minimum wage for those who earn a living in this...
View ArticlePartnership working: why is integrating health and social care so difficult?
Intense financial pressures and an ageing population have challenged NHS England to rethink the ways in which health and social care can be delivered in future. Sustainability and Transformation...
View ArticleWill China and India lead on global climate action and environmental protection?
Following the Rising Powers and Interdependent Futures conference in June, Dr Mark Robinson of the World Resources Institute looks to what needs to happen for China and India to be global leaders on...
View ArticleSix foundations for a stronger economy
The independent Industrial Strategy Commission has issued its emerging findings. Commissioner Prof Diane Coyle outlines how the UK can address some of its longstanding economic weaknesses and deliver...
View ArticleIndustrial Strategy and skills: getting it right this time?
The independent Industrial Strategy Commission has today issued its emerging findings (.pdf). Commissioner Professor Andy Westwood describes why ambition alone won’t be enough for its proposed skills...
View ArticleThe myth of the golden generation? How inequalities continue into later life
James Nazroo, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity at The University of Manchester, opens our mini-series of blogs examining The Manchester Institute for...
View ArticleWomen in local government: time is on the side of change
Last week, the Fawcett Society, in partnership with the Local Government Information Unit, released a report into whether local government works for women. Here, Cllr Angeliki Stogia, Executive Member...
View ArticleThe impact of inequalities in later life
As part of our series of blogs examining The Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing’s (MICRA) new report ‘The Golden Generation?’ Anna Dixon, Chief Executive at the Centre for Ageing...
View ArticleCreating age-friendly policies to improve experiences of later life in...
As part of our series of blogs examining The Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing’s (MICRA) new report ‘The Golden Generation?’ Paul McGarry Head of the Greater Manchester Ageing...
View ArticleWhy language statistics might be misleading
This month’s issue of The Economist included an article entitled ‘Why central and eastern European children lag behind in British schools’. Here, Professor Yaron Matras responds to the article and...
View ArticleKeeping us charged- addressing energy storage related issues
Last week, the Government announced that new diesel and petrol cars and vans will be banned in the UK from 2040 in a bid to tackle air pollution. In light of this, it was also announced that the...
View ArticleFree-floating Citizenship – Could UK individuals be permitted to retain a...
In the first of a series of blogs generated from MANREG‘s Brexit, Regulation and Society in June, Dr Javier Garcia Oliva discusses the possibility of whether individual citizens of the UK might be...
View ArticleTime to address the North-South health divide through proportionate economic...
New research has revealed widening inequality between death rates in the northern and southern England. Here Professor Iain Buchan explains the significance of his research and calls on policymakers to...
View ArticleScoping the impact of Brexit for NHS procurement
Our series of blogs from speakers at MANREG‘s ‘Brexit, Regulation and Society’ event continues with the University of Bristol’s Dr Albert Sanchez Graells’ analysis of the effects of Brexit on NHS...
View ArticleTrade Unions, EU workers and ‘Brexit’: More Complexity, Less Certainty
Third in our series of policy blogs developed from MANREG‘s ‘Brexit, Regulation and Society’ event, The University of Strathclyde’s Dr Rebecca Zahn explores the impact of Brexit, trade deals, and EU...
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Is having any job at all better for your health and wellbeing than being...
There are long held assumptions that taking any job is better for a person’s health and wellbeing than being unemployed. A study of over 1000 unemployed adults by Tarani Chandola, Professor of Medical...
View ArticleBridging the skills gap: primary to higher education
The UK’s skills gap in science, technology, engineering and maths has been widely acknowledged, but the measures needed to address it are less clear. Here, Donna Johnson, Head of the Science &...
View ArticleBrexit: An opportunity to progress equality and human rights?
Our ‘Brexit, regulation and society’ blog series continues with Rebecca Hilsenrath, Chief Executive of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Her blog, based on her presentation to ManReg‘s recent...
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International students aren’t a visa risk: who’s surprised?
Here Dr Sylvie Lomer explains why international students aren’t a visa risk and outlines how false assumptions have been used as justifications for migration policies that seriously prejudice and...
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