Report cover - Policy Modelling for Health logo top left Text reads Policy Impact Assessment: Autumn Budget Statement 2025 UK-Wide Distributional Analysis 2026-2030
How will the Autumn Budget 2025 affect poverty, inequality, and household incomes across the UK?
Using UKMOD #microsimulation - modelling to simulate behaviour and interactions - our new report assesses winners, losers and fiscal impacts from 2026–2030. www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_1246769_smxx.pdf
New paper with @lisagarnham.bsky.social @profellenstu.bsky.social & @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social finds housing 3Cs (context, cost, condition) are recognised by researchers, policymakers & publics but only lived experience accounts centre a 4th C—control: journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
20.08.2025 16:37 — 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2
Doing things differently here? After decades of hype, Greater Manchester is starting to look like something rare; an actual UK economic sucess story. I had a look into the latest economic data for @manchestermill.bsky.social to find out more (1/4)
02.07.2025 09:18 — 👍 74 🔁 26 💬 3 📌 4
Fantastic to see the @greatermcr.bsky.social Unit Cost Database praised in the Green Book Review yesterday. It's a resource we've put lots of effort into over the years. New update out soon. www.gov.uk/government/p... www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/what-we-do/r...
12.06.2025 08:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NEW: Where and how does the government spend its money?
@beeboileau.bsky.social, @maxwarner.bsky.social and @benzaranko.bsky.social's new interactive tool allows you to explore where and how the government spends money, over time and across the UK.
📊 Explore the data: ifs.org.uk/calculators/...
Picture of University of Glasgow and text that says 'ESRC-funded Supervisor led Studentship: Disabled People's Lived Experience of Benefit Reform and the Costs of Disability' First Supervisor Professor Sharon Wright Second Supervisor Professor Charlotte Pearson. Application deadline: 10 April 5pm BST. A link to apply is included.
Funded PhD @uofgussp.bsky.social with Professor Sharon Wright, Professor Charlotte Pearson (and me!) - Exploring the Lived Experience of Benefit Reform and the Costs of Disability. Deadline 10 April - please get in touch if you want to discuss this opportunity www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/...
20.03.2025 16:28 — 👍 12 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 2
Great to see the @greatermcr.bsky.social Research Team's Digital Exclusion Risk Index (DERI) tool featured as a case study in the government's Digital Inclusion Action Plan out today. www.gov.uk/government/p...
Open for anyone to use to identify areas to target public.tableau.com/app/profile/...
Interesting research showing that public perceptions are shifting from "Health Individualism" to "Society shapes health". Opportunity to reinforce the message that we need joined up cross-sector approaches to shift the system and make progress.
19.02.2025 09:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📣 New report and research 📣
We’ve published ‘Mayoral Matters’ looking at public attitudes to mayors and devolution in the parts of England which have actually experienced it.
www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...
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It can be hard to integrate diff evidence types, yet policy folk often want synthesis of broad evidence. Lisa Garnham, Ellen Stewart & I created a (prototype) layered systems map to integrate evidence about housing & health with community panel accounts www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/... Feedback welcome
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Labour Together has published a report from @samfr.bsky.social on how transferring powers to mayors and local govt can support the government to achieve its missions to improve public services.
Full Report: www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...
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Chart showing Projected proportion of households in fuel stress, by age group and household type, 2023-24: England
The Government needs to support vulnerable households who are no longer eligible for Winter Fuel Payments — and those who never have been.
Read Cold comfort by @alexclegg.bsky.social and Jonathan Marshall now ⤵️ https://buff.ly/3zFU5Lm
