Return to work: the new normal?

Wed Oct 20 2021 at 04:45 pm to 06:45 pm

Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce | Manchester

Future Economies
Publisher/HostFuture Economies
Return to work: the new normal?
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Returning to work: the new normal?

With summer over, pupils back in school and university campuses refilled with students from around the world, even though pubs and restaurants have seen big increases in their clientele, offices around the city and beyond remain quiet compared to pre-Covid. Is this is a temporary shift which will wane when we get beyond any winter wave, or is this new way of working firmly here to stay? In In the first seminar in the return of this series, we explore this question through academia, businesses, public transport and the public bodies charged with keeping the cities alive to shed light on whether we’re firmly into a new normal.

Participants:

  • Chris Fletcher, Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce
  • Christian Spence, Head of Economic Analytics, Future Economies Research Centre, Manchester Metropolitan University
  • Simon Bedford, Partner Deloitte LLP
  • Victoria Braddock, Director of Marketing, Marketing Manchester
  • Prof. Cathy Parker, Director, Institute for Place Management, Manchester Metropolitan University
  • David Sidebottom, Director, Transport Focus

Future Economies Seminar Series in association with Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce

October 2021 sees the re-launch of the Future Economies Seminar Series, in association with Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce, that brings together the latest academic research with the views and experience of business leaders, policymakers and wider civil society. The seminar series started in 2019 alongside the launch of the interdisciplinary Future Economies Centre for Research and Knowledge Exchange at Manchester Metropolitan University, whose remit is to better understand the challenges of future economies and to work, through its academics and engagement with strategic partners, to help business, the public sector and wider society respond to them.

The bringing together of this practice-focused and applied research centre with the UK’s largest Chamber of Commerce provides a monthly forum to support open conversation between leading academics, businesses and policymakers to drive innovation and collaboration on the principal challenges to sustainable and equitable economic growth in our communities.

The topics covered are broad but engage directly with contemporary policy challenges, including post-Covid recovery and post-Brexit growth, transport, decarbonisation and clean air, local government finance, investment and the levelling-up and devolution agendas, the future of industrial strategy and pensions provision, and many more.

The seminar series is designed to create a forum to support the university’s knowledge exchange programme, recognising that there are too few avenues for genuine interaction and mutual learning between academia, business and wider society.

These events will be held at Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Elliot House, 151 Deansgate, Manchester M3 3WD, as well as live-streamed, on Wednesday evenings once a month, with ample opportunity for networking and refreshments before and after, and we look forward to seeing you there.

More information will be published shortly on our websites at www.mmu.ac.uk/future-economies and www.gmchamber.co.uk.


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These events will be held at Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce’s offices at Elliot House on Deansgate on Wednesday evenings, once a month, with ample opportunity for networking and refreshments before and after, and we look forward to seeing you there.

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Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce, 151 Deansgate, Manchester, United Kingdom

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