The Civic University Network, alongside the UPP Foundation, has recently written to senior government ministers and civil servants calling for universities to be explicitly referenced in the prospectus currently  being developed for the £4 billion Levelling Up Fund. We believe that universities could  be a critical in delivering transformative collaborative projects that help drive positive social change in our local communities.

In a piece written for HEPI, Professor Sir Chris Husbands and Natalie Day, Sheffield Hallam University and host of the Civic University Network, with Richard Brabner, Director of the UPP Foundation, explain more