Comment and Analysis

Combining Growth and Levelling Up in UK Regions: How Universities and the Social Sciences Can Help

• Levelling up

Professor Simon Collinson, University of Birmingham 

Levelling up: An Industrial Strategy perspective

• Levelling up

David Bailey, Professor of Management, University of Birmingham and Phil Tomlinson, Professor of Industrial Strategy, University of Bath 

Learning to level-up: Three equalizing education reforms

• Levelling up

Lee Elliot Major, Professor of Social Mobility, University of Exeter 

Fork in the road ahead: Can COVID-19’s impact on transport provide lessons for tackling climate change?

• COVID-19

Iain Docherty, Dean of the Institute for Advanced Studies and Professor of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Stirling and Greg Marsden, Professor of Transport Governance at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds 

Levelling up in practice – A focus on Rochdale in Greater Manchester

• Levelling up

Paul Ormerod, Chairman of the Rochdale Development Agency 

Isolated and excluded yet resilient: seeking asylum during a global pandemic

• COVID-19
• Politics and International Relations

By Professor Peter Hopkins (School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University) and Dr Robin Finlay (School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University) 

Putting evidence to work in a lockdown and beyond: how we’ve set about addressing the Covid-19 attainment gap

• COVID-19
• Education

Professor Becky Francis (Chief Executive, Education Endowment Foundation) 

The COVID certainty: more savings for the rich, more debt for the poor

• COVID-19

Torsten Bell, Chief Executive, Resolution Foundation 

Levelling up taxation, funding and education

• Levelling up

Professor Danny Dorling (Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford) 

We know how to level up health: here’s how and why

• Levelling up

Dr Jennifer Dixon, Chief Executive, Health Foundation 

Levelling up can’t be done top down

• Levelling up

Professor Diane Coyle, Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge 

An end to neglect – levelling up through innovation and reinvention

• Levelling up

Will Hutton, President, Academy of Social Sciences 

Children’s rights in a digital world – Can COVID-19 move governments from evidence to action?

• COVID-19

Professor Sonia Livingstone OBE FAcSS (Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science), Kristen Hope Burchill (Research, Advocacy and Participation Advisor at Terre des hommes) and Konstantinos Papachristou (Founder of Teens4greece) 

Mind your language: Language and outcomes in the COVID-19 pandemic, and lessons for the future

• COVID-19

Professor Kavita Vedhara FAcSS (Professor of Health Psychology University of Nottingham), Professor John Weinman FAcSS (Professor of Psychology as applied to Medicines, King’s College), Professor Keith Petrie (Professor in Psychological Medicine, University of Auckland), Dr Deepti Gurdasani (Senior Lecturer in Machine Learning, Queen Mary University), Dr Joanne R. Morling(Clinical Associate Professor in Public Health, University of Nottingham), Professor Jonathan K. Ball (Professor of Molecular Virology, University of Nottingham) 

Social Policy perspectives on COVID-19

• COVID-19

Professor Linda Hantrais (Emeritus Professor in European Social Policy, Department of Politics and International Studies, Loughborough University; Visiting Professor at the LSE International Inequalities Institute) 

Coming out of COVID: Building back better economics

• COVID-19

Professor Jonathan Portes (Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Kings College University London) 

A make-or-break decade: evidence from the social sciences must be at the heart of post-pandemic policymaking

• Guest Feature

Will Hutton FAcSS, President, Academy of Social Sciences 

Understanding and supporting the role of mutual aid groups in the Covid-19 pandemic

• COVID-19

Professor John Drury FAcSS (Professor of Social Psychology, University of Sussex) Dr Evangelos Ntontis (Lecturer in Social Psychology, School of Psychology and Life Sciences, Canterbury Christ Church University), and Guan Mao, (Research Assistant for the Groups and Covid project at Sussex University)