City-REDI / WM REDI Round Up – September 2021

Events – presenting work / speaking engagements

• Professor Raquel Ortega-Argiles will be presenting at the Innovation Places Summit 2021, organised by Connected Places Catapult on the 23rd of September 2021.

Media engagements / News

• City-REDI / WMREDI are involved in a University of Birmingham partnership with UAE Ministry policymakers to help with its regional economic development.

Reports / publications released

• Professor Raquel Ortega-Argiles has recently published her paper “The UK “geography of discontent“: narratives, Brexit and the inter-regional “levelling-up” in the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society.
• Abigail Taylor and Anne Green published their journal article on ‘How well equipped are national surveys to capture new approaches to training?’ in the Journal of Education and Work

Local and Central Government

• On the 8th of September, Professor Raquel Ortega-Argiles gave a provocation at the round table on “The levelling-up white paper: Economic and Social Infrastructure” organised by CURDS and the Levelling-Up Unit at UK Cabinet Office.
• On the 8th of September, Professor Raquel Ortega-Argiles participated at the round table on “The levelling-up white paper: Innovation and Firms” organised by ERC, CURDS and the Levelling-Up Unit at UK Cabinet Office.
• On 9^th September Professor Anne Green presented the first of two provocations at a ‘Levelling Up White Paper Roundtable: Employment and organised by CURDS and the Levelling-Up Unit based at UK Cabinet Office.

Awards/ Funding

• Professor Raquel Ortega-Argiles received the 2021 Martin Beckmann prize at the 60th edition of the European Regional Science Association Meeting on the 27th of August 2021.

Look ahead to the coming months…

• On the 5^th October, Rebecca Riley will be speaking at the Making Global Goals Local Business’ Roadshow.
• As part of the EUniWell – The European University of Wellbeing project several activities are going to take part in the coming months:
  • The EUniWell Symposium: Good Practices on Student Well-Being (30th September to 1st of October 2021)
  • The Festiwell (19th October to 20th October 2021)

• On the 13th October, City-REDI and Colmore BID will launch the Future Business District at The Exchange.
• On the 14^th October, Rebecca Riley will be speaking at an event for the What Works Centre for Local Growth – Recovery Workshop – Monitoring and evaluation during the recovery.
• On the 21 October, City-REDI and the Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce will be holding the launch of the Birmingham Economic Review 2021.
• Hannes Read will be hosting an event at the Future City Centres as part of the Festival of Social Science on Wednesday 17^th November 19:00 -20:30 at The Exchange.
• Professor Raquel Ortega-Argiles will be a keynote speaker at the 6th Geography of Innovation GEOINNO2022 conference to be held in Milan on the 26th-28th of January 2022.
• Professor Raquel Ortega-Argiles is part of the scientific committee of the 6th Global Conference in Economic Geography to be held in Dublin between the 7th-10th June 2022.