Research

Our report explores the lessons national governments can learn from the pandemic to be prepared for a variety of future crises.

Drawing on a notable case of collaborative failure in England we show that misdiagnosing public service problems as being of a type likely to be cured by joint working also generates poor results, and belongs conceptually prior to many “go-to” explanations of failure.

An overview of the key policy decisions taken to manage the transmission of COVID-19 and protect public health in 12 US states using data from the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT).

This paper outlines the global pattern in pandemic school-closure periods and illustrates data needs through the examples drawn from Brazil and India, both of which experienced prolonged periods of school closures.

In this case study, the Western European cities of Lille in France and Bilbao in Spain are marked examples of economic resilience.

In this case study, the Anglo-Saxon case studies of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Windsor, Ontario, and Newcastle, New South Wales show how cities can galvanise a productive vision of a city’s future.

In this case study, the German cities of Duisburg, Dortmund and Leipzig are examined in detail by  Dr Suzanne Frick and Dr Paula Prenzel.