🤔 How can policymakers improve teacher recruitment and retention? 🧠 In our new article, Andrew Howes and Louisa Dawes explore how re-professionalising teaching can improve opportunities for children and young people 📽 Watch the short video explainer below 👉 Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/eqxY-hk5
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The University of Manchester's sector leading policy engagement unit; influencing policy with robust evidence.
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The University of Manchester's policy engagement unit, Policy@Manchester connects researchers with policymakers and influencers, nurtures long-term policy engagement relationships, and seeks to enhance stakeholder understanding of pressing policy challenges. We aim to impact lives globally, nationally and locally through influencing and challenging policymakers with robust research-informed evidence and ideas. The opinions and views expressed are those of the respective content contributors and do not necessarily reflect the views of The University of Manchester. Policy recommendations are based on authors’ research evidence and experience in their fields.
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🏡 Professor Richard Kingston explains how the NERC Digital Solutions Hub can support informed decision making to ensure the UK government meet their 1.5 million homes housing target sustainably👇 🧱 Britain’s current housing crisis and the long-term structural challenges of the housing market are set to be addressed by the government’s 1.5 million new homes target. 🌎 Policymakers must ensure that these new developments balance multiple factors – land suitability and environmental considerations, infrastructure and connectivity, and decarbonisation and climate adaptation. 🗺️ The NERC Digital Solutions Hub, a free online mapping toolkit launching in 2025, allows easy-to-access environmental, social, economic and health data to inform policymakers’ decisions, to ensure new houses provide long-term multi-faceted benefits. 🔗 Read the new article - https://lnkd.in/emUNPK62 Digital Futures at The University of Manchester School of Environment, Education and Development at The University of Manchester Sustainable Futures at The University of Manchester Greater Manchester Combined Authority #planning #policy #housingcrisis #sustainable #NERCdsh #research
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♻️ In 2021, 2.5 million tonnes of plastic waste was generated in the UK. Less than half of this was recycled 👇 🔎 The award-winning 'One Bin to Rule Them All' project at The University of Manchester explored the UK's household plastic recycling system. It concluded three best practice policy recommendations for a successful system: 1️⃣ The need to understand consumer practice to shape recycling infrastructure and policy. 2️⃣ Standardisation and consistency across the supply chain. 3️⃣ Maximising value and sustainability of plastics via an open-source hierarchy of fates. 🔗 This #RecycleWeek, read Dr Helen Holmes' article 'Trashing the future: failures of UK plastic recycling policies and next steps' to find out more: https://lnkd.in/dYGCSrEA Sustainable Consumption Institute Sustainable Futures at The University of Manchester Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub Alliance Manchester Business School UoM Humanities The University of Manchester School of Social Sciences #plastic #recycling #OneBin #policy #manchester
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🤝 Eight academics from The University of Manchester have taken part in a horizon-scanning activity to determine key policy priorities which Parliament may need to consider in the next five years 💡 This activity, facilitated by POST, UK Parliament, aims to identify insights on emerging trends and changes to support decision-makers in anticipating future developments, managing risks and pursuing opportunities 👏 Those involved include: Professor Arpana Verma, Professor Rose Broad, Professor Dave O'Brien, Professor Kieron Flanagan, Professor David Johnson, Professor Cecilia Wong, Dr Jonathan Gilmore and Professor James Evans 🖱 You can read more about this activity and the emerging priorities identified here: https://lnkd.in/eTgHDAQ4
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👵🏼 The population is ageing. How can we make sure that the voices of older people are central to policy development? 💡 Manchester City Council and the University of Manchester have been at the forefront of age-friendly work and research for nearly two decades. 🚨 But more can be done - particularly in response to the growing diversity within older populations. 🤝 Co-production can avoid treating older people like a problem to be solved but rather as partners in shaping their cities to meet their diverse needs. 💭 We cannot think about urban policy in silos. Recent research highlights the need for social infrastructure that enables older people to connect in multiple ways. 👉 Read the full article by Patty Doran, Mhorag Goff, Linda Naughton and Pippa Winship here: https://lnkd.in/ewP7KRqD The University of Manchester School of Social Sciences
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🤝 Building community resilience has become a necessary goal for many policymakers, especially in response to natural disasters and in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. 🗺 But how can they know which areas need targeted actions, interventions, and funding to build their resilience? 💡 Christine Camacho and Dr Luke Munford have created a new Community Resilience Index (CRI) that highlights how resilience differs across England. 🧭 They found significant geographical variation, with local authorities in northern, coastal, and rural areas tending to have lower resilience. 🎯 The CRI can be used by policymakers at all levels to guide resilience-building efforts to communities that have the greatest need. 🔗 Read the full article, with data visualisation, now; https://lnkd.in/eW6TV3kG 🔍 And find out how resilient your local area is using the CRI dashboard; https://lnkd.in/ewCPyT46 Healthier Futures at The University of Manchester; NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Greater Manchester (ARC-GM) #resilience #publicpolicy #inequalities
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💡 Today is #WorldMentalHealthDay, a time to talk about mental health and highlight the connection between mental health and work. 💼 In his policy article, Professor Christopher Phillipson calls for policies on healthy ageing at work, with support needed for mental and physical health. 👉 Read it here; https://lnkd.in/eZfDkqhF 🧠 Our Open Minds collection combines research and policy recommendations on everything from psychedelic therapies for mental health, to tackling loneliness. 👉 Read it here; https://lnkd.in/eaz6KN2U 💭 And you can read our wider series of policy articles on mental health, covering young people's wellbeing, maternal health, and more. 👉 Read the series; https://lnkd.in/et5P55Fn
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❓ Missed out on this year's party conferences? 🤝 Our panel events at Conservative and Labour party conferences, in partnership with the Institute for Government, are available to listen to now. 🔊 Listen here to Professor Richard Jones discussing how can metro mayors help Labour achieve its missions for government. 👇 You can listen to the full version of this panel and our panel at Conservative Party Conference, 'What is the Conservative vision for devolution across England' below: https://lnkd.in/ezsz8ykJ
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💷29% of children in the UK are growing up in poverty. This rises to nearly 50% in families with more than three children. 🧑🏫Louisa Dawes, Carl Emery, and Sandra Clare explain how providing free school meals for all children in education would combat poverty. 🍲Universal free school meals would cost £2 billion to implement but generate over £41.3 billion in value to families, according to analysis by PwC. 👉 You can read the article here https://lnkd.in/eT-W29Mn School of Environment, Education and Development at The University of Manchester
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👏 Professor Mark Elliot has recently contributed to a new parliamentary briefing – Biometric data: Misuse, use, and collation 🤳 Biometric data is a type of personal information that allows the unique identification of a person, and unlike passwords, biometric data is linked to the physical or behavioural characteristics of a person – if stolen, it is impossible for a user to get new biometric characteristics 📄 This briefing, published by POST, UK Parliament, outlines the benefits and risks of using biometric data in society 👉 You can read the briefing in full here: https://lnkd.in/eFd5shDe