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 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 aims to improve the use of evidence in the design and delivery of policies for local economic growth, which is directly related to the question about effective combinations of government and devolved support for local growth.
The aim of the project is to identify institutional and organisational arrangements at the regional level that tend to lead to the 'good' management of policy trade-offs associated with increasing productivity, and to ma...
Funded by: UKRI
Lead research organisation: University of Surrey
The project aims to identify institutional and organisational arrangements at the regional level that lead to the 'good' management of policy trade-offs associated with increasing productivity, which is partially relevant to the question about effective combinations of government and devolved support for local growth.
The What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth was set up in 2013. The overall aim of What Works Growth is to increase the cost-effectiveness of policies for local economic growth by improving the use of evidence and ev...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: London School of Economics and Political Science
The project is relevant as it focuses on improving local economic growth through evidence-based policies and evaluations, which partially addresses the question about effective combinations of government and devolved support for local growth.