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Articles from IPPO

  1. Overcoming the Challenges of Financing Retrofit in the UK: A Pathway to Net Zero

    Overcoming the Challenges of Financing Retrofit in the UK: A Pathway to Net Zero

    December 12, 2024

    Rachael Owens Wales and the UK face a significant challenge in ramping up retrofit delivery to meet net zero, fuel poverty and health goals. Currently, across the UK, we retrofit around 250,000 homes per year, but to meet our targets, we need to increase this to 1.5 million homes annually by 2035. This sixfold increase is critical to achieving a total of 11.8 million retrofits in England, 1 million in Wales, 1.2 million in Scotland and 300,000 in Northern Ireland, and that’s just if we are targeting EPC C for all homes....

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  2. Can Innovation Districts Create and Spread Prosperity?

    Can Innovation Districts Create and Spread Prosperity?

    December 12, 2024

    Claire MacRae In November 2024, the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Public Policy brought researchers together with national and local government stakeholders to discuss how innovation districts can create economic growth, whose benefits can be shared equitably with their local populations. At the event, attendees discussed IPPO’s recent report, Growth Beacons: How Urban Innovation Districts Can Create and Spread Prosperity, and heard five-minute lightning talks – or ‘provocations’ – from Duncan Booker, Glasgow City Council, James Finnie, Community Enterprise in Scotland (CEIS), and Simon Smith, UK Innovations District Group (UKIDG). The discussion...

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  3. What Policy Interventions Are Needed to Reduce Economic Inactivity for People with Poor Health and Older People

    What Policy Interventions Are Needed to Reduce Economic Inactivity for People with Poor Health and Older People

    December 4, 2024

    Amy Ramsay On 6th November, IPPO hosted a launch event for our latest rapid evidence review. Chaired by IPPO’s Jo Chataway, Co-Investigator and Thematic Director for Socio-Economic Inequalities and Covid-19 Recovery, attendees heard from four speakers who discussed policy interventions to reduce economic inactivity for people with poor health and older people. The first speaker was Senior Research Fellow Carol Vigurs from the EPPI centre, who worked on the IPPO-commissioned rapid evidence review. Carol summarised the review process, sharing its key findings, which you can find summarised here. Launch event attendees heard...

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  4. Exploring the Art and Craft of Knowledge Mobilisation

    Exploring the Art and Craft of Knowledge Mobilisation

    December 3, 2024

    Sarah Chaytor What is knowledge mobilisation? Put simply, it is about sharing knowledge between different people.  The research-policy ecosystem is about connecting academic evidence and expertise to policy professionals to explore and address policy problems. Here, I offer some personal reflections and observations on seven aspects of knowledge mobilisation to inform public policymaking in practice, drawn from 12 years of experience and countless conversations with many highly talented colleagues. What is knowledge mobilisation? Knowledge mobilisation is perhaps best considered not as a fixed technique but as a ‘craft’ incorporating many different skills...

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