👉Obesity and associated malnutrition in childhood can have significant long-term impacts on physical and psychological health

📑Prof Dame Rachel Griffith analyses what drives poor nutrition and assesses policy efficacy around this issue

🔗Read more: ow.ly/Q1Yu50Rykch

🔋 Lead-acid batteries used to power off-grid solar energy devices sold across sub-Saharan Africa often fail.

♻️ Recycling of these batteries causes environmental & health concerns.

Read Chris Kinally & Alejandro Gallego Schmid's article to learn more 👇

blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2024/04/…

👏 Professor David Binks has been cited in a new POST (UK Parliament) briefing - Supply of semiconductor chips

📄 It gives an overview of the UK semiconductor industry and makes policy recommendations to improve supply chain resilience

👉 Read here: ow.ly/BLnP50RuIrh

'The time is ripe for change.' Policy@Manchester's Maria Sharmina and Timothy Capper explore how to strengthen the UK’s energy resilience and security: civilserviceworld.com/in-depth/artic…

📚The PM's 'Maths to 18' plan aims to ‘boost low numeracy rates’ and equip students for data-intensive jobs.
🔎Maria Pampaka, Laura Black and Julian Williams analyse this proposal and make recommendations.
🔗Read more in our new report #SchoolMatters : …licyatmanchester.shorthandstories.com/school-matters…

⛵ There are 42 deaths of despair - DoD; deaths due to drugs, alcohol & suicide - in every 100,000 deaths in coastal areas, vs 32 per 100K inland

✍ Luke Munford and Christine Camacho outline inequalities in DoD across England, & what policymakers can do

blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/urban/2024/03/…

🧠Only 7% of boys report a high level of emotional difficulties, compared with 22% of girls and 50% of non-binary young people

⚖️Professor Neil Humphrey reflects on wellbeing inequalities in young people and how to address them

👉 Read the article: ow.ly/lCel50R91YF

😷In 2022, the UK experienced a significant outbreak of mpox

Maurice Nagington 🏳️‍🌈💃☮️, Jaime Garcia-Iglesias and Dr Jeremy Williams examine the UK's response to mpox and suggest how stakeholders can co-produce responses to future disease outbreaks

🔗Read the article: ow.ly/KY3W50Ro9sG

👏 Professor David Binks has been cited in a new POST (UK Parliament) briefing - Supply of semiconductor chips

📄 It gives an overview of the UK semiconductor industry and makes policy recommendations to improve supply chain resilience

👉 Read here: ow.ly/BLnP50RuIrh

👉Children growing up in the UK's most deprived areas are over twice as likely to be obese as those growing up in the least deprived areas

🔗Prof Dame Rachel Griffith analyses what drives poor nutrition and assesses policy efficacy around this issue: ow.ly/6RVo50RyjVP

🚧 A series of roadblocks have prevented the UK electric vehicle industry from building momentum.

🚗 How can we move the EV transition through the gears?

📈 Dr James Jackson of UoMPolitics makes policy proposals to accelerate the EV transition:

blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2024/01/…

😮‍💨 Greater Manchester has some of the worst pollution levels in the UK.

📍 Prof Sheena Cruickshank (she/her) makes the case for a hyper-local community-driven approach to active transport policy to improve air quality.

👉 Read our recent article: blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2024/01/…

🔬3D bioprinting technologies hold huge potential to transform patient care and treatment.
📑But current legislative boundaries are poorly defined and create unnecessary delays in getting these new technologies to patients.
🔗Read more here: blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/sci-tech/2024/…

🚨 Donor-conceived people in the UK have significantly different rights to information depending on their date of conception.

🗃️ New proposals would increase inconsistency and arguably unfairness, say Caroline Redhead & Lucy Frith.

🔎 Read the article here:
blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2023/11/…

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👩‍🏫 Education reform is a hot topic for policymakers - but can curricular/assessment reforms actually raise attainment or address key challenges facing schools?

✍️ Claire Forbes explains how assets-based approaches could secure deep & sustainable reform:

blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2023/12/…

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🏫Area-based partnerships aim to collaborate with stakeholders to support school improvement initiatives.
📑Paul Wilfred Armstrong and Dr Bee Hughes 🐝 explore ABPs and make recommendations about their governance.
🔗Read more in our new report #SchoolMatters : ow.ly/IWzt50R1W0W

📅Join us on 15 May for our next GM Policy Hub seminar on community-centred approaches to active travel policy
🤝Prof Sheena Cruickshank will discuss creative community approaches to local sources of pollution and barriers to active travel
🔗Register: policy.manchester.ac.uk/events/upcomin…

🔋 Lead-acid batteries used to power off-grid solar energy devices sold across sub-Saharan Africa often fail.

♻️ Recycling of these batteries causes environmental & health concerns.

Read Chris Kinally & Alejandro Gallego Schmid's article to learn more 👇

blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2024/04/…