City-REDI/WMREDI Round Up – August 2023

Events – presenting work / speaking engagements

• Annum Rafique presented work with Juliane Schwarz’s on “Understanding the Role of University-Based Assets on Innovation in SMEs” at the 62nd Congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA) on August 28, held in Alicante, Spain.

Reports / publications released

• Liu-Farrer, G., Green, A. E., Ozgen, C., & Cole, M. A. (2023). Immigration and labor shortages: Learning from Japan and the United Kingdom. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal.
• Crisp, R., Waite, D., Green, A., Hughes, C., Lupton, R., MacKinnon, D., & Pike, A. (2023). ‘Beyond GDP’ in cities: Assessing alternative approaches to urban economic development. Urban Studies, 0(0).
• The final report for the EUniWell Policy Commission has been published – Young people, well-being and the COVID-19 pandemic: Learning for the future – Paul Vallance and Robin Miller.
• City-REDI was featured in an impact case on the Chartered Association of Business Schools website.
• Alice Pugh released a new report with the GBSLEP, Early Assessment of the Digital Innovators Ideator.
• Jo Mills from the University of Wolverhampton released a report for WMREDI, The Potential Impact of Youth Social Prescribing in the West Midlands on Employment and the Economy: Recommendations Report.
• Long, J. A., Lee, J. & Reuschke, D., 24 Feb 2023, Activity graphs: Spatial graphs as a framework for quantifying individual mobility. (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Geographical Systems.

Look ahead to the coming months…

• City-REDI / WMREDI will be hosting two fringe events at the party conferences. On 2^nd October we will be at the Conservative Conference and on 9^th at the Labour Party Conference. The Labour Party fringe is hosted with the University of Manchester.
• City-REDI will be hosting the Birmingham Economic Review on 26^th October with the Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce.