2024:
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Understanding the mobility barriers that UK services businesses face when trading in the EU and EFTA, with IPSOS [Funded by Department for Business and Trade].
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Green sectors as drivers of industrial renewal across regions in the UK, with IPPR. Full Report; FT; Guardian; Sky News.
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2023:
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What types of R&D collaborations work best?, with the Innovation Research Caucus (IRC) [Funded by UKRI and ESRC]. Insight Paper.
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2022:
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Assessing the business growth and productivity effects of Invest NI and UKRI grant support for R&D and innovation, with the Enterprise Research Centre (ERC) and Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) [Funded by NI Department for the Economy]. Research Paper.
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Towards the implementation of a regional skills policy framework, with the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority [Funded by UKRI Higher Education Innovation Fund].
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2021:
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COVID-19 Places Economic Recovery Index (COPERI), with the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority [Funded by the Quality-Related Knowledge Exchange Policy Funding]. Dashboard.
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Academic secondment, at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) [Funded by ESRC]. Productivity Institute insights.
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From ideas to growth: understanding the drivers of innovation and productivity across firms, regions and industries in the UK, with the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) [Funded by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)]. BEIS Research Paper.
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Inward Foreign Direct Investment, written evidence submission to the UK Parliament International Trade Committee. UK Parliament Select Committee Publication.
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Trade in Goods with the EU, written evidence submission to the UK Parliament European Affairs Committee. UK Parliament Select Committee Publication.
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IMPACT
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Drivers of Local Prosperity Differences: People, Firms and Places. ESRC Levelling-Up Sandpit (June 2024-March 2025, ESRC, Co-I, £300k).
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Uncovering Hidden Innovators: using big data to develop comprehensive measures of firm innovation and regional tech specialisation. BA Innovation Fellowships Route B: Policy-led (October 2023-September 2024, British Academy, P-I, £105k).
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Renewable Energy Transition and the Local Economic Development of Lagging-behind Regions. RSA early-career grant (June 2022-December 2023, Regional Studies Association, P-I, £10k).
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Towards the Implementation of a Regional Skills Policy Framework. UKRI Higher Education Innovation Fund (April 2022-July 2022, UKRI, P-I, £7k).
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COVID-19 Places Economic Recovery Index. Quality-Related Knowledge Exchange Policy Funding (January 2021-July 2021, Research England, Co-I, £25k).
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ESRC Academic Secondment at BEIS. (January 2021-September 2021, ESRC, £7.5k).
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COVID-19 Urban Density Mapping. RSA Small Grant Scheme on Pandemics, Cities, Regions & Industry (September 2020-June 2021, Regional Studies Association, P-I, £5k).