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As the UK considers how its economy can recover from the impact of the pandemic, a new institute based at Manchester is aiming to reframe the debate on productivity.
A new national institute aims to change the way the UK thinks about, measures and increases productivity. Based at Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS), the Productivity Institute will lead on a £32 million five-year project, supported by the largest grant ever given by the Economic and Social Research Council.
The establishment of the Institute underlines that increasing productivity is crucial to the country’s economic recovery from COVID-19. It will focus on three areas: an extensive interdisciplinary research programme, collaboration with business and integration with policy.
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Professor Duncan Shaw’s research has been pivotal in helping local and UK government to prepare to harness the power of volunteers. This has been used during the COVID-19 crisis in the setting up of local community groups to support vulnerable and shielded people.
The challenge
When a crisis hits, many people are willing to step up and volunteer their help. But how do you ensure people with minimal training or expertise help in a co-ordinated way alongside the official response?
Manchester’s response
Duncan Shaw is Professor of Operations and Critical Systems at The University of Manchester’s Alliance Manchester Business School and contributes to the work of our Humanitarian Conflict and Research Institute.
Friday May 7th 16:00-17:00 BST
In the latest of our series of webinars (in partnership with The International Emergency Managers Society – TIEMS, and Capacity Building International - CBI) our speakers will explore more of the key lessons and themes that have emerged from the Covid-19 crisis, concentrating on the perspectives of strengthening resilience planning and the implications for the emergency management profession going forward.
We will examine how Covid-19 has required different ways of resilience partnership working in the UK, placing new demands on emergency managers; the dynamics of national direction of responses to a health-led emergency, and some of the early challenges of planning for recovery and renewal at the local level.