Reports

Please see below for a full list of reports produced by IGAU. Further documents available to accompany specific reports are indicated where applicable.

Inclusive Growth in Greater Manchester 2020 and Beyond: Taking Stock and Looking Forward (Ruth Lupton, Ceri Hughes, Alex Macdougall, Hannah Goldwyn-Simpkins and Annika Hjelmskog, November 2019). IGAU's Final Report, looking at the Unit's four years of work on inclusive growth in Greater Manchester and beyond.

• Download a copy of the full Final Report
• Download a copy of the summary of the Final Report
• View an online version of the report

Building on Economic Complexity: An Outline Framework to Guide Thinking on Addressing Spatial Inequalities in Greater Manchester (Justin Bentham and Alex Macdougall, December 2019)

• View or download a copy of this report

Promoting good work in Greater Manchester: Taking sectoral differences into account in the development of the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter (Andrea Westall, November 2019):

• View or download a copy of this working paper

IGAU response to the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework consultation, and accompanying documents:

• Spatial Framework consultation response (Ruth Lupton and Alex Macdougall, March 2019)
• Accompanying Slide Pack 1: Spatial patterns of income deprivation in Greater Manchester (Alex Macdougall and Ruth Lupton, March 2019)
• Accompanying Slide Pack 2: Location of planned GMSF employment spaces in relation to severely income deprived places (Alex Macdougall and Ruth Lupton, March 2019)
• Appendix: Statistics on Severely Income Deprived Places in 2001 and 2013 in Greater Manchester

IGAU responses to Greater Manchester Local Industrial Strategy and Independent Prosperity Review:

• IGAU submission to Call for Evidence for the Local Industrial Strategy (Ruth Lupton, Ceri Hughes and Andrea Westall, December 2018)
• Five inclusive growth principles for GM's Local Industrial Strategy (Ruth Lupton, February 2019)
• Policy paper on the education and skills system in Greater Manchester, as evidence for the GM Independent Prosperity Review (Prof Ruth Lupton and Hon Prof Lorna Unwin, November 2018)
• Summary report on the education and skills system in Greater Manchester, as evidence for the GM Independent Prosperity Review (Prof Ruth Lupton and Hon Prof Lorna Unwin, November 2018)
• Contribution to the GM Independent Prosperity Review Report, p47-49 (Alex Macdougall and Ruth Lupton, February 2019)

Report on Post-16 Transitions in Secondary Education (Sanne Velthuis, Ruth Lupton, Stephanie Thomson & Lorna Unwin, March 2019): 

• Contrasting Characteristics and Destinations of GCSE Lower Attainers in English Core City Regions 

IGAU Response to the Greater Manchester Combined Authority 'Good Employment' Charter Consultation, (Ceri Hughes and Andrea Westall, November 2018)

• View or download a copy of this consultation response

IGAU Education in London and Greater Manchester (Alex Macdougall and Ruth Lupton, June 2018)

• View or download Report 1: The 'London Effect': Literature Review
• View or download Report 2: Trends and performance in the London and Greater Manchester education systems, 2006/07 – 2016/17
• View or download Report 3: What, if anything, can Greater Manchester learn from London's educational success?

IGAU Responsible Business Reports (Anthony Rafferty and Robyn Jelley, April 2018)

• View or download Report 1: Understanding business behaviour that supports inclusive growth
• View or download Report 2: Ways to promote a responsible business agenda in UK Cities: Greater Manchester
• View or download the Responsible Business Policy Briefing

IGAU Response to the Greater Manchester Combined Authority 'GM Employer Charter' Consultation, (Ceri Hughes and Ruth Lupton, March 2018)

• View or download a copy of this consultation response

The Construction Challenge in Greater Manchester: Employment, Skills and Training, working paper (Ruth Lupton, Trudi Martin & Lorna Unwin, February 2018)

• View or download a copy of this working paper

Understanding changes in Greater Manchester’s ‘deprived’ neighbourhoods 2004 to 2015 using a typology of residential mobility, working paper (Ceri Hughes and Ruth Lupton, January 2018)

• View or download a copy of this working paper
• View or download residential mobility data for Greater Manchester LSOAs, 2004 and 2015 – stringent and relaxed versions

Education and Skills in the Era of Devolution: The challenge for Greater Manchester (Ruth Lupton, June 2017)

• View or download a copy of this report
• View or download the accompanying Policy Briefing here

Inclusive Growth (IG) Monitor 2017: Local Enterprise Partnerships (Anthony Rafferty, Ceri Hughes and Ruth Lupton, May 2017).

• A copy of the main report
• Guidance on how to use the monitor
• Summary PowerPoint presentation
• Complete Dataset

Patterns of poverty in Greater Manchester neighbourhoods: Analysis of small area poverty estimates (Ceri Hughes and Ruth Lupton, May 2017)

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Towards Inclusive Growth in Greater Manchester: Summary Report (Ruth Lupton, Anthony Rafferty and Ceri Hughes, October 2016)

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Achieving Inclusive Growth in Greater Manchester: What can be done? Consultation Report (Ruth Lupton and Ceri Hughes, October 2016)

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Residential and labour market connections of deprived neighbourhoods in GM & Leeds City Region (Ceri Hughes and Ruth Lupton, August 2016)

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Inclusive Growth: Opportunities and Challenges for Greater Manchester (Ruth Lupton, Anthony Rafferty and Ceri Hughes, August 2016)

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Inclusive Growth Monitor: City region comparisons and a focus on Greater Manchester (Anthony Rafferty and Seyedehsomayeh Taheri Moosavi, June 2016)

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