COMMUNITY POWER 🎇 | 'In precisely the places that the market shuns, and where the state is often distrusted, community businesses offer a different route to revitalising a place.'

Josh Westerling for Joseph Rowntree Foundation on community business tackling hardship ⤵️
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ESRC survey: Social science research skills

Economic and Social Research Council has released a survey as part of a phase of community engagement that is looking for a new approach to how it supports research skills training and capacity building.

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. Stephen Redding and Daniel Sturm use the case of rapid rebuilding after WWII bombings in London to examine how richer people’s decisions on where to live are affected by changes not only in their own location but in neighbouring streets.

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📌 Plural and local ownership policies can impact the local economy

These policies aim to benefit local residents but studies show there may be other impacts.

We guide you through the evidence in our latest briefing 👇
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Have you taken part in ARMA UK's survey yet?
If you're a research leader, make sure to complete the survey by Monday and let ARMA know how they can best support you:

Exciting news! 📢 Tickets for CiviCon24, June 18-19, 2024, are now on sale! 🎉 This event is essential for leaders 👨‍💼, professionals 👩‍💼, and academics 🎓 exploring the civic landscape in higher education, as well as for senior leaders 🦸‍♂️ driving change within their institutions.

🚨New call for evidence!

Culture Commons is running a new open policy development programme exploring the future of local cultural decision making.

👉Find out more about the 12-month project and how you can submit evidence: culturecommons.uk/post/call-for-…

'Power to the People': our new report published with Compass and written by Arianna Giovannini & Jonathan Davies now on Mastodon, Threads and BSky! offers a timely challenge to Westminster:

If the parties believe in levelling up, will they act on its recommendations?

Read the report here ➡️ bit.ly/4aty0gb

The Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)

The LPIP Hub looks at what TEF is, what it is trying to achieve, and why it may be of interest to people outside of academia.

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English institutions with devolved powers

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities has published guidance on devolution and the powers and duties of devolved organisations.

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The Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)

The LPIP Hub looks at what TEF is, what it is trying to achieve, and why it may be of interest to people outside of academia.

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🖥️ Launch webinar: “Measure, manage and maximise your impact: A dialogue with the social economy'

Impact areas:
📈Economic prosperity and employment
🤝Social inclusion
🏘️ Well-being and community

🗓️ 15 April | 🕝 14:30 CEST

Register here 🔗 bit.ly/43MwQKa

The Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)

The LPIP Hub looks at what TEF is, what it is trying to achieve, and why it may be of interest to people outside of academia.

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Thought provoking thread for those interested in #localgovernment

Youth provision and life outcomes research

Department for Culture, Media and Sport has conducted three research projects addressing specific evidence gaps.

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Welcome to the Office for Place’s X page!

The Office for Place is a new arms-length body to Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities.

We will be helping neighbourhoods to create beautiful, successful & enduring places that foster a sense of community, local pride and belonging.

Join Helen C Jarvis from Newcastle University Geography for an online seminar about community organising as a place-based theory and method of civic university engagement, on 16 May, 13:00 - 14:00.

Find out more and register- shorturl.at/efAKR

#TrulyCivic #CivicEngagement

Evaluating the local business growth effects of the UK City of Culture 2013 and 2017

Enterprise Research Centre (ERC) provides a simple propensity score matching-difference-in-difference modelling approach

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Historic Trailblazer devolution deal for North East signed

Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities write about the historic devolution deal which was signed between the Government and the seven leaders of the region's major councils.

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The Research Excellence Framework (REF)

The LPIP Hub explains what the REF is, what the benefits are of REF, and how it can be of interest to people outside academia.

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