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Escaping the city? How COVID-19 might affect the UK’s economic geography


This report explores four possible ways the involuntary experiment with remote work might change the United Kingdom’s labour market and economic geography.
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Dialogues about data: building trust and unlocking the value of citizens’ health and care data


The COVID-19 pandemic is bringing the opportunities and challenges of sharing health and care data to the front of public debate. This report sets out two interlinked challenges to building a data-driven health and care system.
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What is data poverty?


Most of the UK population is now within reach of fast broadband, 4G or 5G signals, and also have the digital skills to go online. This report focuses on those for whom cost is the main barrier to greater digital participation.
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Mapping career causeways: supporting workers at risk


The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc with labour markets, and risks causing widespread worker displacement in the worst affected sectors. This disruption has thrown into sharp relief the lack of timely and detailed careers advice for workers. This report aims to fill that information gap by providing a 'map of the labour market.' The map...
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Learning in a pandemic


Sixteen million people across Europe were unemployed in September 2020, a rise of about two million since the beginning of the pandemic. FutureFit is a major training and research project up-skilling over 1,000 workers at risk of job displacement. This report presents the findings from the programmes in Sweden, Denmark and Finland, where the training...