The Yorkshire & Humber Policy Engagement and Research Network. Providing new evidence and fresh insights to inform policymaking across the region.
Yorkshire & Humber, UK
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It’s a wrap! 🎉Our final newsletter for 2024 is here.
Key highlights include:
📌 Mapping local authority priorities
📌 York’s free school meals evaluation
📌 SME manufacturing policy
📌 Uni-local authority collaboration
📩 Read more: bit.ly/y-pernnewsdec24
Our final newsletter of 2024 will be available next week, and we have plenty to showcase!
Discover Y-PERN’s regional impact over the last 3 years + work on free school meals, SMEs, council priorities & collab frameworks.
Make sure to subscribe here: bit.ly/y-pernnews
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A useful guide for Universities Local & Combined Authorities in #Yorkshire & the #Humber
The guide draws on @policyleeds @HorizonsLeeds and @LeedsCC_News work on developing Areas of Research Interest - as well as experience from colleagues in the North East.
#ARI
📑New resource for policy organisations alert!
"Areas of Research Interest: A Practical Guide" will walk you through the stages of creating Areas of Research interest, to articulate your evidence needs and engage effectively with the academic community
➡️bit.ly/ARI-resource
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📢 Could your research support policy making in Leeds?
Scrutiny Boards play a key role in improving local services by ensuring council decisions address community needs.
Learn how to engage with the @LeedsCC_News Scrutiny Boards in our latest blog: medium.com/policy-leeds/enga…
ALT Leeds City Council office building. Photo by Gary Butterfield on Unsplash.
We’re recruiting!
Come and join us as our p/t Communications Officer to help tell the story of evidence informed policy making across #Yorkshire & #theHumber
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.asp…
Deadline 1 Dec
Y-PERN retweeted
“Child poverty rampant” says the PM at today’s #LabourConference24
A new report from our Cost of Living research group lays out the reasons for this and calls for an ambitious strategy to help lift children out of poverty
Read here: bit.ly/3Bs1LkM
ALT Getting the child poverty strategy righ: Key lessons from research evidence for an effective, ambitious approach
🌍Catch up with last week's climate action-themed Y-PERN newsletter here: bit.ly/3ZEPGTL
Be sure to sign-up to October's edition too, which will showcase some of Y-PERN's sub-regional policy engagement activity: bit.ly/4bdbEQh
Great thread on how to support equitable approaches to university - local/combined authority partnerships.
@YorkshireUnis @YHCouncils
Prioritise equity in your academic-policy engagement with regional policy bodies using co-production: a short guide in a thread 👇 1/11
@PolicyUpen
Y-PERN's email newsletter returns next month with some exclusive insight into collaborative policy making around climate adaption and resilience 🌍
🗞️Don't miss out, sign-up here: bit.ly/4bdbEQh
Bringing communities with valuable lived experiences into the heart of the decision-making process is key to the Hull Poverty Truth Commission – and something Y-PERN and YPIP will be doing more of in future.
Find out more:
👉bit.ly/4fgEP7G
📺youtube.com/watch?v=dl-fmxZ_…
How can research translate into policy development and delivery?
In an insightful blog, Alice Rubbra from @SouthYorksMCA reflects on the relationship between policymaking and research and how it works (sometimes)
👉bit.ly/46gwWLi
Y-PERN retweeted
More than 1 million participants have taken part in research in Yorkshire and Humber in the last 10 years.
Research only happens when people volunteer to #BePartOfResearch. Thank you to everyone in our region who has made this possible.
Read more here➡️ local.nihr.ac.uk/news/more-t…
Y-PERN retweeted
WYSAG has been established by @TracyBrabin and facilitated by @NIHR_ARC_YH. 'WYSAG Talks' describe the challenges, what science tells us and the potential solutions. First one from @ProfKEPickett on our website and read more: tinyurl.com/2b2unbxj
Happy Yorkshire Day! 🎉
Our policy partners @CityofYork are taking a unique approach to hosting the annual event, with a day of activities around the themes of equalities, affordability, climate & health. All key areas of focus for @Y_PERN_
👉bit.ly/3LOVXUE
While the new Government’s plans around #devolution are rightly ambitious, important questions remain.
That's according to Dr Neil Barnett and @paulhayes01, writing in our Y-PERN blog this month.
bit.ly/46qi39p
If you missed Y-PERN’s newsletter last week, you can catch-up with all the content here (including exclusive videos and blogs): bit.ly/3A3CjBL
🪧Be sure to sign-up for the next one in September as well!: bit.ly/4bdbEQh
Y-PERN’s July Newsletter is out next week and includes some fascinating and exclusive reflection from one of our key policy partners on academic engagement and lessons learned from collaboration.
🗞️Sign-up here: bit.ly/4bdbEQh
With devolution high on the political agenda, yesterday’s conference hosted by @PolicyUpen, @leedsbeckett and @Y_PERN_ discussed opportunities and challenges for academic policy engagement.
Attendees heard perspectives & lessons from Scotland, Wales, London, West Midlands & more
"Partners across Y-PERN are exploring how policy engagement can form part of the broader student civic experience ..."
📣Y-PERN's @andymycock1, author of a new report 'Enhancing the Student Civic Experience'
bit.ly/4eG8Kpw
