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 partially answers the question by providing a national facility to tackle the question of regional competitiveness and rebalancing the UK economy. The authors have the necessary expertise to competently answer the question.
This 5-month project will establish a West Midlands Local Policy Innovation Partnership (WM LPIP). This will involve connecting local policy and research partners across the region to deliver a programme of activity that...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Birmingham
The project focuses on establishing a Local Policy Innovation Partnership to drive inclusive and sustainable local growth, addressing challenges and priorities in the West Midlands.
Across Western Europe the activity of urban regeneration is now around 40 years old. From the vantage point of the present this history is best understood as one of experimentation and re-experimentation with a range of ...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Liverpool
The project partially answers the question by investigating the process of self-organised governance of urban policy. The authors have the necessary expertise to competently answer the question.