UPEN Showcase Regional Academic Policy Engagement in England (Y-PERN), 13 Mar 2024

Devolution of the UK state over the past decade has increasingly focused on the decentralisation of powers to regional (combined authority) and local government in England.

At the same time, academic policy engagement has emerged as a distinct and significant element of universities' wider civic commitment to knowledge exchange and evidence-based policymaking. The Yorkshire and Humber Policy Engagement and Research Network (Y-PERN) is kindly funded by Research England and is a novel network-based approach to inclusive and place-based academic policy engagement, involving the 12 constituent university members of Yorkshire Universities and all the combined and local authorities across the region. Y-PERN comprises of a team of Policy Fellows, supported by an independent academic steering group, who seek to broker and connect academic research into policy-making circles based at regional, city/sub-regional and local scales.

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