Work with the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy
Investing in regional equality – four English examples
The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) and City-REDI / WMREDI, February 2024. (Scroll down the CIPFA page to view)
Investing in infrastructure – enabling fairer growth
The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) and City-REDI / WMREDI, March 2022. (Scroll down the CIPFA page to view)
Investing in regional equality – lessons from four cities
The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) and City-REDI / WMREDI, February 2022.
Investing in regional equality – lessons from four cities: Metrics and a framework for designing effective policies
The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) and City-REDI / WMREDI, February 2022.
Levelling Up. What is it and can it work?
Levelling Up. What is it and can it work?
Centre for Inequality and Levelling Up (CEILUP) at the University of West London. Contribution from Dr Abigail Taylor called "How can the UK learn from international experience to level up? Drawing on research from the Industrial Strategy Council", January 2022.
LIPSIT
This research aims to identify institutional and organisational arrangements at the regional level that tend to lead to the 'good' management of policy trade-offs associated with increasing productivity, and to make recommendations to policymakers based on this. Visit our project page.
LIPSIT Delivering Levelling-Up Report
LIPSIT project, September 2021.
Achieving Levelling-Up: The Structures and Processes Needed
LIPSIT project, 2020
Industrial Strategy Council
Supported by Professor Anne Green, Dr Abigail Taylor contributed to three projects examining skills investment in the UK and how the UK system compares to international skills systems, the process of developing Local Industrial Strategies and international evidence on effective place-based interventions. View our project page.
What does it take to “level up” places?
Dr Abigail Taylor, Skye Sampson and Anna Romaniuk, January 2021.
Devolution and Governance Structures in the UK: Lessons from Evidence
Regan A., Quinn M., Romaniuk A., Sampson S., Stratton T., Brittain B. and Taylor A, 2021
Midlands Engine Observatory
Providing the latest data and research for our region. View our project page.
Mapping the architecture of economic development policy and strategy across the Midlands Engine pan-region
Nottingham Trent University, IREP, GREEN, A., ROSSITER, W. , TAYLOR, A., HOOLE, C., RILEY, R., KARAGOUNIS, K. and PUGH, A., 2021
Geographical scales and functions: the case of the Midlands Engine
Report prepared for the Midlands Engine Independent Economic Review by Green A. and Rossiter W, 2019
West Midlands Economic Impact Monitor
The West Midlands Economic Impact Monitor brings together data and intelligence from the WMREDI partnership into one single source which can be shared and utilised in planning and responding to the challenge of the virus. It discusses emerging issues relating to Levelling Up and summarises key data and intelligence.