REF Impact Cases under review

Brexit's economic impact on the UK, its regions, cities and sectors submitted by our P.I. Professor Raquel Ortega Argiles

Media and Blogs

• Vaccine Optimism and Global Economic Recovery

• The Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19 on Ethnic Minorities in the West Midlands

• New publication: UK analysts’ and policy-makers’ perspectives on Brexit: challenges, priorities and opportunities for subnational areas

• The Burden of Inequality

• England’s qualifications gap and its solutions: evidence from the West Midlands, LSE Politics and Policy

• How poor is poor? The many dimensions of poverty in the UK, LSE Business Review, London School of Economics

• Seoul, Street Food, Networks and Numbers: The 2018 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society

• The many dimensions of poverty in the UK, LSE British Politics and Policy

• Multidimensionality of Poverty in the UK

• Measuring the qualifications gap: regional analysis and local labour markets

• The Economic Impacts of Brexit in Europe: Regional Participatory Workshop – European Committee of the Regions

Policy Presentations

Qualifications gap in the West Midlands paper was presented in the following events:

1. Black Country Consortium

2. Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

3. ESRC Social Science Festival Event: Bricks, Concrete and Steel – A look at Birmingham's future commercial and residential property and local infrastructure development

4. The Industrial Strategy Commission evidence sessions

Work cited in policy documents

1. Ideas/solutions arising from multidimensional poverty in the UK and qualifications gap papers were embedded into the Industrial Strategy slide pack, presented at the Cabinet Office.

2. Findings arising from our paper on qualification gaps were embedded into Wolverhampton Economic Assessment by Wolverhampton City Council.