We receive funding for our Economics Policy work from a wide range of sources.
Examples of funded projects
- Social Care Reform in Scotland, funded by the Coalition of Care and Support Providers in Scotland
- Improving Emissions Assessment of Scottish Government Spending Decisions and the Scottish Budget, funded by ClimateXChange
- Modelling packages to meet Scotland’s child poverty targets, funded by abrdn Financial Fairness Trust
- The Impact of Changing Working Hours Patterns on Household Poverty - FAI / SCER / Standard Life Foundation
- The contribution of medical funding by charities to the UK economy, funded by the British Heart Foundation
- A Fiscal Commission or Council for Northern Ireland, funded by Northern Ireland Department of Finance
- Support and opportunities for adults with learning disabilities in Scotland
- We are one of 6 institutions leading on the multi-million investment by the Office for National Statistics in its Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence(2016-2021).
- Support the Northern Ireland Government in analysis of the economic impact of COVID (e.g. Q3 2020).
- Scottish Funding Council (2016 – 2018), Fiscal Analysis in Scotland
- Scottish Funding Council (2018 - ), Applied Economics capacity building
- Sponsorship of Economic Commentary: Deloitte LLP (Graeme Roy)
- Sponsorship of the Scottish Business Monitor: Addleshaw Goddard LLP
Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy
The UK has experienced a huge change in trade policy. Having left the EU, it is in the process of devising its own trade policy, one that will shape economic and welfare outcomes in all corners of the United Kingdom for generations.
At the same time, international trade is changing rapidly and becoming more complex with the world trading system facing major challenges such as COVID-19, trade wars, disruptive digital technology and climate change.
The Centre is the first dedicated to trade policy to be funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and is built on the precept that trade policy should be inclusive in both policy formulation and outcome. It focuses on four dimensions of inclusiveness: geography, political domains, society and generations.
The Centre has researchers in all four UK nations, in five disciplines and at all stages of their careers.
As well as from Strathclyde the team is led by Professors L. Alan Winters and Michael Gasiorek at the University of Sussex Business School and also includes the University of Nottingham, Queen’s University Belfast, Cardiff University and the University of Cambridge, as well as several overseas universities, to create the UK’s first interdisciplinary research centre in international trade with scholars from economics, law, business management, politics and international relations.
More information can be found on the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy.