{"id":29587,"date":"2026-02-09T11:20:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/?p=29587"},"modified":"2026-02-09T11:20:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:20:56","slug":"city-redi-round-up-january-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/city-redi-round-up-january-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"City-REDI Round Up &#8211; January 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26100\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/05\/Remote-Work-Changing-Where-We-Live-2-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/05\/Remote-Work-Changing-Where-We-Live-2-1.png 900w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/05\/Remote-Work-Changing-Where-We-Live-2-1-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/05\/Remote-Work-Changing-Where-We-Live-2-1-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/05\/Remote-Work-Changing-Where-We-Live-2-1-250x167.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This blog summarises the reports and blogs that\u00a0 City-REDI have put out in January.<\/p>\n<p>Catch up on all the latest reports and projects in one place.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h5 class=\"hero__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/research\/centres-institutes\/city-region-economic-development-institute\/publications\/2026\/shaping-regional-futures-2035-the-city-redi-10-year-strategy\">Shaping Regional Futures 2035: The City-REDI 10-year Strategy<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>Discover how City-REDI is driving inclusive, sustainable growth for cities and regions across the UK and beyond. Our new strategy sets out an ambitious vision for 2035\u2014combining cutting-edge research, evidence-based policy, and collaborative partnerships to tackle economic, social, and environmental challenges.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"e-headline u-heading-1 \" data-test=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2026\/01\/18\/donald-trump-plunged-britain-carmakers-crisis\/\">Trump plunges Britain\u2019s carmakers back into crisis<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>Dr Matthew Lyons was quoted in the Telegraph for his research on tariffs.<\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/uobevents-reginnpol26.eventsair.site\/\">Navigating Futures with Innovation: Resilient and Resurgent Regions<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>Join City-REDI and The LPIP hub for the 20th Regional Innovation Policies conference. This milestone edition focuses on future-oriented approaches to regional innovation policies examining how innovation ecosystems adapt to disruption, how to harness new technologies, and exploring forms of place-based leadership to unlock inclusive and sustainable growth.<\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/09697764251404298\">Covid-19 sub-regional economic recovery partnerships: Soft spaces of governance in action<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>Charlotte Hoole, Abigail Taylor and Anne Green have wrote an article exploring how informal, flexible \u201csoft spaces of governance\u201d facilitated rapid, multi-agency economic recovery planning during the Covid-19 crisis in England, highlighting their effectiveness, adaptability, and reliance on individual agency in times of shock.<\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/pure-oai.bham.ac.uk\/ws\/portalfiles\/portal\/288845792\/06.01.2026_-_EBNS_and_WM_Job_Vacancy_analysis_-_Nuffield_V3.pdf\">Labour market insights from online job postings in <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/pure-oai.bham.ac.uk\/ws\/portalfiles\/portal\/288845792\/06.01.2026_-_EBNS_and_WM_Job_Vacancy_analysis_-_Nuffield_V3.pdf\">East Birmingham and North Solihull<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>Professor Anne Green and Kostas Kollydas&#8217; new briefing uses online job postings data to explore labour demand in East Birmingham and North Solihull (EBNS) by sector and major occupation group.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Disclaimer:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe views expressed in this analysis post are those of the authors and not necessarily those of City-REDI or the University of Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/Pages\/ResponsePage.aspx?id=z8oksN7eQUKhXDyX1VPp8yWdezIigchHkCztz4L15OhUNDRTTFpLWUlZOVM5N1lCQlJXQ0o5NkZEUC4u\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sign up for our mailing list<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog summarises the reports and blogs that\u00a0 City-REDI have put out in January. Catch up on all the latest reports and projects in one place. Shaping Regional Futures 2035: The City-REDI 10-year Strategy Discover how City-REDI is driving inclusive, sustainable growth for cities and regions across the UK and beyond. Our new strategy sets &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/city-redi-round-up-january-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;City-REDI Round Up &#8211; January 2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1610,"featured_media":26100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1766],"class_list":["post-29587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-redi","tag-city-redi-roundup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29587"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29659,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29587\/revisions\/29659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}