The main areas of IPEG's research are as follows:
- Civil renewal, neighbourhoods and community engagement
- Behaviour change
- Local and regional governance
- Public service reform
- Regional and urban economics
- Innovative research methods
IPEG has been commissioned by the North West Improvement Network (NWIN) to undertake a three year knowledge creation and transfer programme for local government in the region. To read more about this programme follow the link below.
Further background information on IPEG's research themes can be found here.
Research projects
Civil renewal, neighbourhoods and community engagement
- Rediscovering the civic and achieving better outcomes in public policy
- Neighbourhood accountability - the 'many sizes' and how they fit
- Facing up to the community cohesion challenge - the moral and political agenda
- Partnerships with the voluntary and community sector - where next?
- Evaluation of the Young Movers Programme
- Community participation, public services and local governance: opportunities and challenges for local agencies (a review of the evidence)
- Housing Aspirations for New Generations: Perspectives from White and South Asian British Women
- Home Office - Civil Renewal Research Programme - Completed
- Get Out The Vote Campaign - Completed
- ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship - Completed
Behaviour change
- Re-shaping services to facilitate behaviour change
- Shifting entrenched behaviours: smart solutions to the 'wicked' issues
- Prevention of Prolific and Priority Offending in Blackburn
- Drug Treatment from a Social Perspective: An Experimental Evaluation of Wigan Council's Intervention on the Trees Estate
Local and regional governance
- Councillors Commission report - Improving the Representativeness of Councillors - Learning From Five High Performing Local Authorities in England - Completed
- Facing up to the community cohesion challenge - the moral and political agenda
- How can local government help create economic prosperity?
- Strengthening leadership; managing tensions
- Council Size and Democracy - Completed
- CLG - Evaluating Local Governance: New Constitutions and Ethics - Completed
- ESRC - Professorial Fellowship 'The Principles of Governance: Corporate & Political'
- The Policy Priorities of UK Governments: A Content Analysis of King's and Queen's speeches, 1945-2005
- Centre for Public Scrutiny - Evaluation of the Impact of Local Authority Health Scrutiny - Completed
- Standards Board for England - 'Identifying the Components of an Ethical Environment' - Completed
Public service reform
- Neighbourhood accountability - the 'many sizes' and how they fit
- What is the role of good practice in innovation? - Completed
- Achieving innovation in local authority organisations - Completed
- Choice in public services - a review of the evidence - Completed
- The Use and Effectiveness of Best Practice in English Local Government - Completed
Regional and urban economics
- New Economic Geography with firm heterogeneity
- Strengthening the evidence base for the North West - Completed
- Consumption risk sharing across regions
- Regional coincident indicators of economic activity
Innovative research methods
- Rediscovering the civic and achieving better outcomes in public policy
- Prevention of Prolific and Priority Offending in Blackburn
- Shifting entrenched behaviours: smart solutions to the 'wicked' issues
- Drug Treatment from a Social Perspective: An Experimental Evaluation of Wigan Council's Intervention on the Trees Estate
- Get Out The Vote Campaign - Completed
- Further information on design experiments and their application can be found in the following papers: