Part of the Festival of Social Science 2019 at NIESR

Jagjit Chadha, Director of NIESR, is delighted to host this event where we will explore regional and other place-based disparities in the UK. We aim to discuss how spatial disparities are underpinned by processes of political marginalisation and inequality in economic opportunities, and whether the perceptions that they create are increasingly critical to Britain’s economic and political development. This half-day event will bring together researchers from NIESR, Glasgow and Cardiff universities as well as other research institutions, business and policy agencies from throughout the UK. It is our aim to describe ways in which current research is addressing regional issues to work out priorities for policy and forge new partnerships for future work.

Part of the Festival of Social Science 2019 at NIESR

This is the first of an annual series of lectures in honour of prominent economist Christopher Dow. In this lecture Martin Weale reviews some of the influences on firms’ key expectational variables as measured in the Confederation of British Industry’s Industrial Trends Survey.

Part of the Festival of Social Science 2019 at NIESR

Why has the evidence-based approach proven vulnerable to populist politics and can the approach be renewed? What are the origins of EBP and what were its most notable successes and failures? Our panel of speakers from academia, politics, policy-making and journalism will provide a rich discussion of these questions.

In recognition for its growing profile and its commitment to impact and engagement, NIESR was awarded an Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) from the Economic and Social Research Council in Spring of this year. As part of this, NIESR is delighted to be hosting its first ever Festival of Social Sciences this November. With events ranging from the inaugural lectures of two brand new series to an open lecture on the emotional economics of football fans, it is set to be an engaging and dynamic week...