
GM Policy Hub
We connect academics with local policymakers to address regional policy agendas.
Within Policy@Manchester, the GM Policy Hub seeks to build relationships between researchers and regional stakeholders to resolve societal challenges and optimise collaborative opportunities across the region.
We support GM policy agendas with briefing notes, roundtables, summaries, blogs and opportunities for offline constructive conversations. We also provide a platform to connect local policymakers with national policymakers, other thought leaders and decision-makers through targeted events.
The Hub is a dedicated resource for GM policymakers to access academic expertise to help inform evidence-based policymaking.
Connect with us
If you would like to find out more about what we do, discuss the opportunity to work with us, or join our mailing list, contact our Civic Engagement Manager, Terri Lucas.
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GM data insights
View our interactive data across a range of policy areas relevant to Greater Manchester.
GM Policy Hub updates
Every three months, we share an update on our research and activity relevant to Greater Manchester. Read our updates below. To receive these updates, contact Terri Lucas and we will add you to the mailing list.
Blogs
Read our collection of blogs focusing on policy issues in Greater Manchester. Recent blogs include:
Reports
Guaranteed basic income: the case for a Greater Manchester pilot
- Written by Professor Anthony Rafferty and Alex Macdougall
- In this report for the Work and Equalities Institute, Professor Anthony Rafferty and Alex Macdougall evaluate universal basic income and the case for a Greater Manchester pilot of guaranteed basic income as pledged by Mayor Andy Burnham.
- The case for a guaranteed basic income pilot in Greater Manchester (blog)
- Guaranteed basic income: the case for a Greater Manchester pilot (full report - PDF)
Strengthening participation and people power in Greater Manchester (July 2022)
- Written by Professor Francesca Gains and Professor Liz Richardson
- This report draws on discussions within Greater Manchester and examples of best practice elsewhere. It sets out key principles to underpin greater pluralism in policymaking, maps out the different ways in which participation can take place, and makes suggestions for strengthening participation.
- Strengthening participation and people power in GM report (PDF)
- Strengthening participation and people power in GM report (online version)
Greater Manchester economy: response to crises (March 2022)
- Written by Dr Marianne Sensier
- This report assesses the depth of economic scarring in Greater Manchester from the coronavirus pandemic recession and the 2008 global financial crisis. It analysises the business cycles in output and employment in the GM boroughs to see how they have recovered following each crisis.
- Greater Manchester economy: response to crises (blog)
- Greater Manchester economy: response to crises (full report - PDF)
- Greater Manchester Economic Dashboard
Publications
Building Utopia examines the interlinked challenges of urban development, health and climate change. It brings together thought leadership and expert analysis on how to build climate-resilient cities while also addressing health and social inequalities.
This publication aims to identify what we know – and what we need to know – about gender inequality in tackling the big policy agendas devolved to Greater Manchester and other areas with devolution deals.
Events
Research from The University of Manchester is addressing key policy issues globally, nationally and locally. Since March 2020, we have hosted or collaborated on a range of virtual and hybrid panel events exploring issues relating to health and wellbeing, productivity, devolution, inequalities and more.
If you missed out on these events, you can find more information and links to the recordings below.
- Impact of COVID-19 on the Northern Powerhouse: One year on (5 October 2021)
- Happy and healthy communities: how can we build health and wellbeing into new home developments that work for everyone? (4 October 2021)
- Child of the North, COVID-19 update (Conservative Party Conference, 4 October 2021)
- Can place based partnerships drive innovation and growth across a city region and provide the key to levelling up? (4 October 2021)
- Child of the North: COVID-19 update (Labour Party Conference, 28 September 2021)
- How can we make the digital world accessible to older people? (17 September 2021)
- Community responses to COVID-19 in Greater Manchester (18 May 2021)