Developing a strategy for economic resilience in the West Midlands Combined Authority: The role of skills and industrial structure.

2008年，世界各地的经济体面临着历史上最严重的经济危机之一。经济衰退的影响包括收入和就业的大量损失，这导致了几种社会弊病，如犯罪、健康和福祉恶化等。然而，危机并没有影响到所有同样严重的地方。该研究员的博士研究考察了2008-2014年间英国地方当局各地区2008年经济衰退的影响，以确定为什么一些地方在缓解危机的负面影响方面表现得比其他地方更好。这种面对衰退影响的能力被称为经济弹性。利用定量计量经济学方法，确定了一些影响当地经济弹性的因素。特别是，结果表明，年轻老年人口和学位水平持有者的比例缓解了不同地区危机的影响。政策方面的影响表明，在地方一级更加注重技能以及将复原力作为以地方为基础的政策的核心要素是有价值的。同时，这项研究留下了地理和当地产业结构对经济韧性的影响的悬而未决的问题。该奖学金旨在解决这些问题，并提供两份战略文件，重点是技能发展和明确促进和增强经济韧性的当地产业战略。这些文件将由该研究员的博士论文以及其他新研究提供信息。它们还将涉及成立一个利益攸关方小组，该小组由关键的地方行为者和政策制定者组成，共同制定这些战略文件。在这一进程的早期阶段让该小组参与，将有助于传播和影响该区域制定政策的产出。总体而言，计划的活动方案包括举行两次利益攸关方活动，这些活动将产生两份战略文件。这些文件的分发将包括两次启动活动以及一系列博客文章和政策简报。作为研究金的一部分，将进行的额外研究将产生两份学术出版物。这一精心规划的项目将使这位研究员能够与学术界和政策制定者(以及更广泛的)社区接触，最大限度地发挥研究的影响，并为该地区和其他地区带来更好的福祉结果。

The year 2008 has seen economies around the world facing one of the worst economic crises in history. The recession's effects included a significant loss of income and employment which led to several social ills such as crime, health and wellbeing deterioration etc. However, the crisis did not impact all places with the same severity. The fellow's doctoral research examined the impact of the 2008 recession across Local Authority Districts in Great Britain during 2008-2014 in order to identify why some places have performed better than others in mitigating the negative effects of the crisis. This ability to face the recession effects is termed economic resilience.Using quantitative econometric methods a number of factors affecting local economic resilience have been identified. In particular, the results indicate that the share of younger aged population and degree level qualification holders has mitigated the impact of the crisis in different places. The policy implications suggest that there is value at the local level in a greater focus on skills as well as the inclusion of resilience as a core element of place-based policies. Simultaneously, the study has left unanswered questions over the effects of geography and the local industrial structure in economic resilience.The fellowship aims to address these questions and deliver two strategy documents that will focus on the development of skills and a local industrial strategy to explicitly promote and enhance economic resilience. The documents will be informed by the fellow's doctoral thesis as well as additional new research. They will also involve the formation of a stakeholder group consisted of key local actors and policymakers to co-create these strategy documents. The engagement of this group at an early stage in this process will assist the dissemination and impact of the outputs on the formulation of policy in the region.Overall, the planned programme of activities includes holding two stakeholder events which will lead to two strategy documents. The dissemination of these documents will involve two launch events as well as a series of blog posts and policy briefings. The additional research to be conducted as part of the fellowship will lead to two academic publications. This carefully planned programme will allow the fellow to engage with both the academic and the policymaking (and wider) community, maximising the impact of the research and delivering better wellbeing outcomes for the region and beyond.