How can Behavioural Public Policy contribute to tackling the UK Housing Crisis

Dr Richard Whittle, Chief Policy Fellow, Y-PERN In this blog I will briefly look at the contribution Behavioural Public Policy can make to solving the UK housing crisis. Note however I say contribute toward and not solve. Much of the criticism of behavioural science in policy revolves around it solely being the policy rather than …

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Yorkshire Universities responds to the Budget Statement

Responding to today’s Budget Statement, Dr Peter O’Brien, Executive Director of Yorkshire Universities, said: “The forecast that inflation will fall by the end of the year is positive. However, it is important that any direct and indirect effects of reduced rates of rising prices are passed quickly on to consumers and businesses. We welcome the …

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Spring Budget 2023: What do our experts want to see?

Here at Y-PERN we boast economic experts from across the 12 Universities in Yorkshire. The Spring Budget is nearly upon us and we thought it could be useful to ask our experts what they would like to see announced tomorrow. Professor Dave Spicer, Director of Business and Community Engagement in the School of Management at …

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Spring Budget 2023 needs a digital focus

Dr Richard Whittle, Y-PERN Chief Policy Fellow and Academic Policy Fellow at the University of Leeds We are in turbulent times, the pandemic and transformation of our economy is a very recent memory and continues to be a pressing threat. Inflation is tearing through the UK economy hitting savings, the purchasing power of our incomes …

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Budget 2023: Regional perspective

Neil Barnett, Y-PERN Senior Policy Fellow based at Leeds Beckett University Some quick thoughts on the Budget. It seems the Chancellor will have some leeway, but the demands and hopes for funding are, following years of Austerity, and the impact of inflation on budgets, limitless. With respect to broader policy issues, changes to child care …

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Action Needed in Budget to Deal with Workforce Shortages

Professor Alexander Nunn, Y-PERN Academic Steering Group member and Dean of Research, Leeds Trinity University Wide-ranging and long-term support needed across a range of policy domains including employment services, skills, housing, transport, childcare, workforce wellbeing and immigration. It is widely noted that employers are facing labour shortages. The latest data from the ONS suggests that around …

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2023 Spring Budget and levelling up

Dr Andy Mycock, Y-PERN Academic Steering Group Member and Reader in Politics, University of Huddersfield The Spring Budget will be of particular interest to those who have charted efforts by the UK Government to rebalance or ‘level up’ the country over the past decade or so. It is uncertain as to whether ‘levelling up’ will …

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Place-based interventions and co-production

Neil Barnett, Y-PERN Senior Policy Fellow based at Leeds Beckett University The Inaugural Y-PERN conference on 18th and 19th January brought together a range of actors from local government, health, universities and the community sector, and for me, as a newly appointed Policy Fellow with Y-PERN, served to highlight the extent of cross-sector collaboration which …

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Reasons to be Optimistic?

Dr Peter O’Brien, YU Executive Director January was a tough month. The festive season felt like an age ago, and more eye-watering energy bills landed on household doormats. Personally, it was particularly heart-breaking to watch a recent ITN report about elderly residents in Newcastle who were living in freezing conditions, and not switching on their …

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Yorkshire Universities obtains £20k funding for a regional sustainability service-learning pilot

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 …

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