Today PASCAL publishes the first of its new series of Policy Challenge Papers which connect emerging ideas and research to topical policy challenges.   Policy Challenge Paper 1 urges regional authorities to secure the greatest impact from higher education institutions at local level by demanding engagement over issues of importance for regional development.

This event was a major public presentation of material from the substantial research programme jointly funded by ESRC and the funding councils for higher education in England and each of the devolved administrations in the UK. It is a significant multi‐centre programme, embracing work on a wide range of aspects of impact, involving 11 projects spread across 17 HEIs around the UK, coordinated at Strathclyde University, and costing over £3m.