The Knowledge Exchange Blog

Creating carbon conscious places

theknowledgeexchangeblog2024-08-30T12:05:54+00:0014 December 2020|Environment, planning, Planning, development and property, Regeneration and community development|

Last week, we reported on a series of webinars organised by Partners in Planning, a partnership of key organisations ….

How the planning system can help address climate change

theknowledgeexchangeblog2024-08-30T12:05:53+00:007 December 2020|Environment, planning, Planning, development and property, Regeneration and community development|

The Scottish Government’s Climate Change Plan Update is due to be published this month (December 2020), after being postponed from April due to the ….

Virtual reality: a game changer for mental health treatment?

theknowledgeexchangeblog2024-08-30T12:05:53+00:0030 November 2020|Digital, Health and social care|

Demand for mental health treatment in the UK far outstrips supply. And the outbreak of COVID-19 has forced many primary care services to think creatively ….

‘Bending the Curve’ of biodiversity loss – could Covid-19 be the catalyst for change?

theknowledgeexchangeblog2024-08-30T12:05:53+00:0025 November 2020|Environment, Health and social care|

dead forest pic

“The evidence is unequivocal – nature is being changed and destroyed by us at a rate unprecedented in history” (WWF)

The latest Living Planet report ….

Guest post: How working from home could revitalise rust belt cities

theknowledgeexchangeblog2024-08-30T12:05:53+00:0023 November 2020|Business and economy, employment|

Michel Serafinelli, University of Essex

For years, we have been promised a work-from-home revolution, and it seems that the pandemic has finally brought ….

Skilling up: the case for digital literacy

theknowledgeexchangeblog2024-08-30T12:05:53+00:0016 November 2020|Digital, Education and Skills, Employment, jobs and careers|

As technology has advanced, and it has become harder to name simple tasks that have not become digitised in some form, the need for everyone in society to have a basic ….

Role models for a new economic landscape: lessons from Europe’s Green Capitals

theknowledgeexchangeblog2024-08-30T12:05:53+00:009 November 2020|employment, Environment|

**Hamburg: StadtRÄDER bike rental system**

Last month, the French city of Grenoble was crowned European Green Capital for 2022. Since 2010, this award has been presented by the European Commission to cities ….

Guest post: Stories from lockdown – interviews show how poor housing quality made life even more tough

theknowledgeexchangeblog2024-08-30T12:05:53+00:002 November 2020|Housing|

Philip Brown, University of Huddersfield

Life during COVID-19 has not been a uniform experience. There have been distinct differences ….

Counting down the hours: could a shorter working week raise productivity and improve our mental health?

theknowledgeexchangeblog2024-08-30T12:05:53+00:0026 October 2020|Business and economy, employment, Employment, jobs and careers, Health and social care|

In 1930, the influential British economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that within 100 years the working week would have shrunk to 15 hours. He believed that as living standards rose ….