Guest blog by Dr Charlie Ball, Head of Labour Market Intelligence, Jisc Establishing the footprint of the digital industry in the UK is not a straightforward task. Definitions of what ‘digital’ actually entails have changed over the years and continue to evolve as work continues to migrate online. Different stakeholders use the same terms to …
In March 2023, the government responded to the outcomes of the recent Department for Education’s (DfE) consultation on the Lifelong Loan Entitlement (LLE), which ran between February and May 2022. The Yorkshire Universities (YU) briefing provides an update and reflects on how the Government’s position relates to the points raised in YU’s Response to this …
Yorkshire Universities (YU) has been awarded £20,000 funding by the UPP Foundation to pilot a regional sustainability service-learning project. Ours is one of the eight pilot initiatives the UPP Foundation invested over £160,000 in. Funding was awarded to schemes which support student and graduate success for disadvantaged and underrepresented groups, and for initiatives which support …
UPP Foundation awards over £160k in funding to outstanding pilot initiatives UPP Press release as published on 23 January 2023. The UPP Foundation, the registered charity founded by student accommodation and infrastructure business UPP, has invested over £160,000 in grant funding for eight innovative pilot projects with charities and universities. The projects were selected by …
In this analysis we present a forecast of the impact of YU member institutions over the next five years. The research uses historic data to predict the future impact of the twelve members of Yorkshire Universities: the universities of Bradford, Huddersfield, Hull, Leeds, Leeds Beckett, Leeds Trinity, Leeds Arts, Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam, York, and York …
Creative industries represent a vital segment of the UK economy, contributing to the growth of local economies (Mateos-Garcia et al., 2018) and the country’s competitive advantage (HM Government, 2018). In 2018, the creative industries comprised 6.2% of the economy of the
United Kingdom in terms of employment (DCMS, 2019) and 5.8% in terms of gross value added (GVA) (DCMS, 2020). Additionally, the creative industries are fast growing – employment in the creative industries grew by 30.6% over the period 2011 to 2018, while the GVA in real terms increased by 43.2% since 2010 (DCMS, 2020). Creative industries tend to be innovative (Bird et al., 2020) and can be highly productive, although they constitute a diverse sector of the economy embracing a wide range of productivity levels (see Section 2 below). Currently, the creative industries, and arts, humanities and social sciences more generally, are ineligible for R&D tax policy support in the United Kingdom (Bakhshi, Breckon and Puttick, 2021). This report will explore the potential of R&D tax policy to support the creative industries.
