International trade in post-Brexit Britain
Our blog ‘Brexit, Regulation and Society’ blog series, in conjunction with ManReg, continues with City, University of London’s Professor David Collins. Here, Professor Collins reflects on Britain’s...
View ArticleHearing impairment: A modifiable risk for dementia?
Dr Piers Dawes is a neuropsychologist from The University of Manchester. Piers’s research in dementia and hearing impairment is funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation...
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Grenfell Tower Inquiry: learn lessons and implement changes
The Grenfell Tower fire saw 80 or more adults and children die in their homes in an entirely preventable disaster. Here, Gill Kernick, who helps high hazard industries prevent major accidents and...
View ArticleLearning from the draft Greater Manchester Spatial Framework process
Graham Haughton, Professor of Urban Planning at The University of Manchester outlines 12 lessons from the recent debates around a new Spatial Framework for Greater Manchester. The Greater Manchester...
View ArticleEuratom and leaving the EU – an update
Earlier this year, Professor Juan Matthews contributed to a policy blog on the consequences of Britain’s planned withdrawal from Euratom as part of the Brexit process. Here, he gives us an update on...
View ArticleThe pros and cons of university innovation and exploitation
Paul O’Brien, Professor of Inorganic Materials at The School of Chemistry and The School of Materials, at The University of Manchester discusses innovation and exploitation within UK Universities....
View ArticleWorking towards a new Prevent strategy
In recent months both Theresa May and Greater Manchester Mayor, Andy Burnham, have made significant interventions in the debate on counter extremism. In this blog, Bob Hindle of Manchester Institute of...
View ArticleThe forgotten welfare gap in older age
As the winter months and colder weather approach, the University of Manchester’s Kingsley Purdam explains how welfare reform and austerity has affected the growing numbers of older people. Ongoing...
View ArticleWhat does gender mean at the WTO, and who benefits?
Following the World Trade Organisation’s recent Public Forum, Dr Erin Hannah and Dr Silke Trommer reflect on the new focus on gender in global trade and the challenges of addressing it. Inserting...
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Income security may increase secularity, but not vice versa
Dr Ingrid Storm from The University of Manchester examines economic decline and church attendance in Britain. She found that despite regular churchgoers being able to cope better with economic loss;...
View ArticleCharting a course to better jobs in Greater Manchester
Resolution Foundation research reveals five key challenges: halting the region’s relative decline, addressing the growth in ‘atypical’ work, ending the pay squeeze, encouraging progression and...
View ArticleUK regional development in the context of Brexit
Dr Elvira Uyarra is a Senior Lecturer at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR) at The University of Manchester examines current regional development in the UK and how this might...
View ArticleCan macroprudential regulation promote both financial stability and growth in...
On October 18th, Policy@Manchester organised a Paris conference on Financial Volatility and Macroprudential Regulation in Low-Income Countries. The conference, held in conjunction with the French...
View ArticleTrouble in Paradise – Corporate Vehicles and Contemporary Tax Avoidance
Yesterday news broke on the so-called ‘Paradise Papers’, a leak of 13.4 million files detailing the financial behaviours of individual and corporate elites, including questionable financial...
View ArticleMarking their own homework? The management of conflicts of interest in the NHS
New research shows Clinical Commissioning Groups face challenges in managing conflicts of interest when commissioning primary care. Here, The University of Manchester’s Professor Katherine Checkland...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and the Internet of Things
Computers are everywhere with a myriad of consumer, automotive, medical and communications devices hosting microprocessors and the Internet of Things will result in an increase in reliance on this...
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Does religion matter for attitudes towards immigration?
Dr Ingrid Storm from The University of Manchester examines religiosity and attitudes to immigration in Europe. She found that religious conformity to the national average is associated with negative...
View ArticleAutumn Budget 2017 – We Need to Talk about Blue Skies Science
Ahead of the Chancellor’s Budget Anna Scaife, Co-Director at Policy@Manchester and Professor of Radio Astronomy in the School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Manchester, highlights the...
View ArticleThe Toughest Job in Science?
Professor Andy Westwood is Vice Dean for Social Responsibility in the Faculty of Humanities and Professor of Government Practice at The University of Manchester. Here he blogs on this morning’s...
View ArticleAusterity as usual? Time for a new narrative
Dr Sarah Marie Hall, Lecturer in Human Geography at The University of Manchester blogs on what she’d like to see in the Chancellor’s Budget to help low-income families. Many expect austerity as usual...
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