This section sets out the key areas where we want to deepen our understanding to drive the levelling up agenda, and to unleash opportunity, prosperity and pride in place across the UK. In addition, we want to understand in more granular detail which interventions best drive local growth (local growth is an area of joint responsibility between BEIS and DLUHC).
The lead contacts are: Lesley Smith, Senior Principal Research Officer, Analysis, Research and Co-ordination Unit, Analysis and Data Directorate: Lesley.Smith@levellingup.gov.uk and David Hughes, Head of the Chief Scientific Adviser’s office: psChiefScientificAdviser@levellingup.gov.uk.
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
The UK RDRF brings together a number of research strands funded under the DET, EPSRC and ESRC portfolios over the last decade to create a national facility to tackle the vexed question of regional competitiveness and reb...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: University College London
The project explores the role of expectations and narrative in determining the economic fortunes of regions and sub-regions of the UK, and provides a national facility to tackle this question.
The year 2008 has seen economies around the world facing one of the worst economic crises in history. The recession's effects included a significant loss of income and employment which led to several social ills such as ...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Birmingham
The project addresses the role of skills and industrial structure in economic resilience, which is related to the question, but does not fully explore the role of expectations and narrative.
The What Works Centre aims to significantly improve the use of evidence in the design and delivery of policies for local economic growth and employment leading to more effective policies and policymaking in these areas. ...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: London School of Economics and Political Science
The project focuses on improving the use of evidence in the design and delivery of policies for local economic growth, which is not directly related to the question.