What is the emerging evidence of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economies and productivity of cities and regions, coastal/rural, and deprived areas? How does this vary across the different parts of the UK?

Background

The questions that will help us to grow our understanding to support the recovery from the pandemic, and to inform the medium and long term strategy for ‘living with COVID’, in areas relevant to DLUHC responsibilities.

Next steps

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.

Source

This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

DLUHC Areas of research interest GOVUK

Related UKRI funded projects

  • The Economic Linkages of Covid-19 Across Sectors and Regions in the UK

    The COVID-19 pandemic has affected different countries and regions differently both in the severity and the number of cases. Therefore, different regions within countries may require different policies to effectively add...

    Funded by: COVID

    Lead research organisation: University of Hull

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project aims to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economies and productivity of cities and regions in the UK, which directly addresses the question.

  • COVID-19: Measuring the effects of Covid-19 on businesses and the UK economy

    This proposal, coordinated by the University of Nottingham under the umbrella of the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE), offers immediate data collection and research analysis about the impact of Covid-19 o...

    Funded by: COVID

    Lead research organisation: University of Nottingham

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project offers immediate data collection and research analysis about the impact of Covid-19 on businesses of different sizes, sectors, and regions in the UK, which directly addresses the question.

  • Systemic environmental risk analysis for threats to UK recovery from COVID-19

    UK Recovery from COVID-19 needs to balance the needs of the economy, societal cohesion and health. The Environment is not currently explicit in some framings of national recovery, yet there are a number of major risks in...

    Funded by: COVID

    Lead research organisation: University of Reading

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on systemic environmental risk analysis for threats to UK recovery from COVID-19, which partially addresses the question by considering the impact on societal cohesion and health, but does not specifically mention the impact on economies and productivity of cities and regions.

  • The geography of post COVID-19 shutdown recovery risk in UK economic activity. Implications for recovery inequality and targeted stimulus

    The COVID-19 shutdown is not affecting all parts of the UK equally. Economic activity in local consumer service industries (LCSI), such as retail outlets, restaurants, hairdressers, or gardeners has all but stopped; othe...

    Funded by: COVID

    Lead research organisation: University of Sheffield

  • Predictive Analytics for Covid-19 Recovery

    Reopening the economy and reestablishing social contact are vital to the recovery of the economy and society from Covid-19\. Early reopening for economic stimulus risks having the opposite effect, as repeated restriction...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: TWO WORLDS CONSULTING LIMITED

  • Mathematical modeling and adaptive control to inform real time decision making for the COVID-19 pandemic at the local, regional and national scale

    The world is currently being devastated by a pandemic of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) which, at the time of writing, has resulted in almost 1 million confirmed cases of infection and around 50,000 deaths worldwide. Aro...

    Funded by: COVID

    Lead research organisation: University of Warwick

  • COVID-19: Optimal Lockdown

    The current COVID-19 pandemic has caused whole countries to lockdown, with a huge effect on people's lives and in the economy. Naturally, there are questions about how efficient this lockdown is, and increasing interest ...

    Funded by: COVID

    Lead research organisation: University of Warwick

  • Modelling the Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on the UK economy

    This proposed project seeks to use and develop NIESR's modelling capability to estimate the short term impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the UK economy, and to assess longer-term issues on how the economic recovery i...

    Funded by: COVID

    Lead research organisation: National Institute of Economic and Social Research

  • Using data to improve public health: COVID-19 secondment

    During my secondment with the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS), I will conduct research examining the impact of long covid on employment and income in the UK, and how COVID-19 has disproportionately affected some po...

    Funded by: COVID

    Lead research organisation: King's College London

  • COVID-19 Modelling Consortium: quantitative epidemiological predictions in response to an evolving pandemic

    Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, mathematical and statistical modelling have been used to provide estimates of the epidemic in the UK, and to make short- and long-term predictions about the imp...

    Funded by: COVID

    Lead research organisation: University of Warwick

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