Next Generation Local Economic Strategy

The COVID-19 pandemic is a gamechanger for places worldwide. The ascendancy of populist and nationalist political dynamics is almost as pervasive – with issues like Brexit in the UK having profound impacts on places here.

Third Life Economics has recently published a suite of papers for the Institute for Economic Development that begins to elaborate how local economic strategy itself needs to change to be fit for purpose in the new global and national context.

Read our recently published suite of papers for the Institute for Economic Development that begins to elaborate how local economic strategy itself needs to change to be fit for purpose in the new global and national context.

Economic Renewal in the shadow of a pandemic

Economic Renewal in the shadow of a pandemic – A personal perspective – Download

Post-COVID-19 and Brexit, place leaders need to plan and manage change differently. Read More

How Can HEIs Become Genuinely
Place-Informed?

The case and content of new types of civic universities in Read More

‘What next for placemaking? A checklist for local leadership teams’

A simple place-making checklist first published in the MJ Read More