HIGHER EDUCATION AND REGIONAL GROWTH
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Policy Network is an international thinktank and research institute. Its network spans national borders across Europe and the wider world with the aim of promoting the best progressive thinking on the major social and economic challenges of the 21st century.
Our work is driven by a network of politicians, policymakers, business leaders, public service professionals, and academic researchers who work on long-term issues relating to public policy, political economy, social attitudes, governance and international affairs. This is complemented by the expertise and research excellence of Policy Networks international team.
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Promoting expert ideas and political analysis on the key economic, social and political challenges of our age.
Disseminating research excellence and relevant knowledge to a wider public audience through interactive policy networks, including interdisciplinary and scholarly collaboration.
Engaging and informing the public debate about the future of European and global progressive politics.
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Building international policy communities comprising individuals and affiliate institutions.
Providing meeting platforms where the politically active, and potential leaders of the future, can engage with each other across national borders and with the best thinkers who are sympathetic to their broad aims.
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Delivering an innovative events programme combining in-house seminars with large-scale public conferences designed to influence and contribute to key public debates.
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About the Samuel Lindow Foundation
The Samuel Lindow Foundation was established in 1992. The foundations research tackles important issues in contemporary society, as identified by the foundations trustees, and these are addressed by working with its educational partner and Member UCLan and other collaborators. The foundation has established, with UCLan, an educational institution in West Cumbria to enable it to better conduct research and advance the education of the public.
The Samuel Lindow Foundations charitable objectives are:
To advance the education of the public
To conduct research and publish the results
To establish an educational institution
To achieve public benefit
The foundation and the university are working together to deliver a five-year integrated programme of research, funded by the Foundation and matched by the university.
About the University of Central Lancashire Applied Policy Science Unit
The Applied Policy Science Unit (APSU) is an independent political science research unit at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) and based at its campus on the Westlakes Science and Technology Park, near Whitehaven in West Cumbria.
The APSUs mission is to make an original and independent contribution to policy and its implementation. This unit undertakes academic research, consultancy and dissemination in the field of political science with a special focus upon the application of current policy problems. In addition to UCLan staff involved in political science research and dissemination, the APSU also involves, as advisors, individuals who are professionally involved in politics, policy and government.
There has been a political science research unit at Westlakes for almost two decades. This UCLan unit is building upon and developing that work in governance architectures and institutions, the rescaling of policy and politics and belief and value systems. This long engagement in applied policy science at the Westlakes campus in West Cumbria has given the APSU a distinctive perspective on the role of communities in a globalised economy, and in the importance of individual perceptions and beliefs, and community-level interactions in achieving a nexus between global and local processes and optimising the untraded interdependencies between organisations.
In support of its mission, APSUs objectives are:
To facilitate and undertake applied research into policy problems confronting public, private and social sectors
To make an independent and original contribution in the field of applied policy and political sciences
To combine rigorous academic enquiry with the insights of experienced policy practitioners
To act as a catalyst for the development and implementation of policy
To disseminate the results of research through teaching, publications, seminars and conferences
HIGHER EDUCATION AND REGIONAL GROWTH
Local Contexts and Global Challenges
Edited by Rick Wylie
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CONTENTS
Andrew Adonis
Rick Wylie
Rick Wylie
Maddalaine Ansell
Mike Thomas
Rick Wylie
John Lonsdale
Graham Baldwin and Rick Wylie
David Briggs and Keith Burnley
Patrick Diamond
Andrew Adonis is a Labour member of the House of Lords. He is a former schools minister, and after years at the heart of government remains a leading figure in debates on higher education. In 2012 he authored of Education, Education, Education: Reforming Englands Schools. He is a former secretary of state for transport, and is a former chair of the National Infrastructure Commission.
Maddalaine Ansell is chief executive of University Alliance, the mission group for modern civic universities with a professional and technical focus. She came to this role from the senior Civil Service where she worked on research, higher education and skills policy.
Graham Baldwin is the vice-chancellor of Southampton Solent University. Previously he was a deputy vice-chancellor at the University of Central Lancashire and prior to that was seconded into the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority as the National Skills Research Director. Graham is an honorary professor at Hebei University and a visiting professor at the National Association of Education Administration in Beijing. He has received a title of Outstanding Foreign Expert from Hebei Province, China.
