Podcasts about Greater Manchester Combined Authority

This Pathfinders podcast visits St Jude's Warm Hub in Worsley Mesnes (Wigan) to discuss the impact of the free social club for older people within the community. The Pathfinder press project is running in collaboration with The Greater Manchester Ageing in Place Pathfinder run by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority. For more information about The Ageing In Place Pathfinder click here.

Regulation: a word that sends shivers down the spines of many public servants across the globe. But are we looking at it wrong? Can regulation be something that we embrace as a route to innovation in public service? In this episode, we hear about practical examples of regulation being done differently to achieve real change.  Featured in this episode: Adrian Brown (host), Centre for Public ImpactCarina Gormley (host), Centre for Public ImpactConnie Binkowitz, Director for Development of Public Policy, Center for Transforming Communities in Memphis, TennesseeThomas Johnson, Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Head of Reform Strategy and Policy

In this episode of the Broadband Bunch podcast, host Pete Pizzutillo is live from Connected Britain 2024, joined by John Duncan, the Connected Places Lead for the Greater Manchester Combined Authority. John shares insights from his journey across public and private sectors, his role in driving connectivity and digital inclusion for Greater Manchester, and the innovative use of IoT in social housing. They explore the challenges and opportunities of bridging the digital divide, fostering collaboration between public and private sectors, and the region's vision for future-proofing its digital infrastructure. Tune in for a discussion on the intersection of technology and community development in the UK.

Before dusting off his golf clubs, the outgoing chief executive of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority sat down with Place deputy editor Dan Whelan to reflect on the seismic role he has played in the growth of the city region. For all things construction and the built environment, visit placenorth.co.uk

This week I'm bringing some very sad news - that the UK's only cotton spinning mill, English Fine Cottons, which brought cotton spinning back to Greater Manchester in 2018, has very sadly gone into administration.In case you don't know about the history of English Fine Cottons, it was set up by the technical textile spinners Culimeta-Saveguard, who invested £4.8m of its own money, £2m of which was a loan from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, to regenerate a former Victorian cotton mill and install new technology to create luxury yarn. A further £1m was awarded as a grant by the N Brown Textile Growth Programme.English Fine Cottons was the start of something very exciting in UK manufacturing, and for this to have happened is tragic. The collapse into administration is caused by the parent group Culimeta-Saveguard going down, and unfortunately that has taken the cotton spinning down with it. Something needs to be done to save our only cotton spinning mill, otherwise this is history repeating itself.So today's episode is a remastered version of a visit that I did to English Fine Cottons in 2019, along with an interview with Andy Ogden, who was the general manager at the time.

This week Sam, Helen and Maysie are moving into politics. They were invited to the Greater Manchester Combined Authority to speak to the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham!Andy is a huge football fan and an ambassador for the city of Manchester. Although he is an Everton fan, we talk about how his day job is heavily influenced by Manchester United and we explore his relationship with the club. Did you know that Andy's father attended the first game at Old Trafford after the Munich air disaster? And do you remember when Andy visited Vatican City to gift Pope Francis a Lisandro Martinez shirt?We also use this opportunity to preview the upcoming Everton match at Old Trafford, plus Maysie tells us what he would do if he was ever the Mayor of Greater Manchester. Could this be the start of a new career?The best place to catch up on the back-catalogue of our interviews is over on the Manchester United App, where you can listen to - and watch - all of our episodes in full, for free. Here you can get early access to new episodes, published 24 hours before everywhere else.If you'd like to write to the only official Manchester United Podcast then e-mail utdpodcast@manutd.co.uk We'd also love it if you could leave us a rating and review wherever you listen to your podcasts. Thank you! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 45. AJ Climate Champions with Hattie Hartman and George Morgan. Two Public Practice associates explain how working in the public sector has increased their agency as designers. Public Practice is a social enterprise that places built environment professions in the public sector, primarily in place-making roles and increasingly in key roles that drive retrofit and net zero. ACAN co-founder Lauren Shevills, now lead retrofit innovation and delivery officer at Westminster City Council, explains that Public Practice has changed the trajectory of her career, enabling her to marry her passion for community and stakeholder engagement with technical architectural expertise. Steve Westcott, low carbon programme manager at Greater Manchester Combined Authority, says Public Practice has empowered him to work more strategically and ‘be closer to the conversations' that matter. Off the back of Westcott's role, GMCA is recruiting additional Public Practice associates. On the subject of retrofit, Shevills observes that one major challenge is that retrofit cannot be mandated because it's currently not part of the planning process.  A retrofit first policy requires a rethink of current guidance and Westminster Council has five workstreams underway to explore various aspects of retrofit. Westcott explains that a fabric first approach is often too costly. The GMCA is developing portfolio-wide data collection for the city's non-domestic estate to inform future grant disbursement decisions. For show notes and to catch up on all AJ Climate Champions episodes, click here.

A warm Mancunian welcome to all my listeners. Presenting Season 6, Episode 9 of the #MeettheMancunian #podcast #GM #manchester #careers #youth #socialimpact #nonprofit #employability. I'm Deepa Thomas-Sutcliffe, your friendly host. In the ninth episode, the Meet the Mancunian podcast talks to Jane Wells [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mjanewells/], Enterprise Coordinator, part of the Youth Employment and Opportunities team at the Greater Manchester Combined Authority [https://www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/]. Jane talks about supporting schools and colleges in Greater Manchester to strategically improve their careers education provision in line with the national framework of best practice so that young people are making better and more informed choices at key transition points. Jane also talks about bridging the gap between industry and education by bringing in industry volunteers to collaborate with schools to design their career strategy, programmes and activities. This allows school career offerings to be informed by the needs of industry highlighting within education the jobs of the future. She talks about this broadening the kinds of jobs young people are exposed to. Did you know: · Young people and their families in Greater Manchester can find out about the careers and apprentice opportunities online on the career hub www.gmacs.co.uk [https://gmacs.co.uk/]. · If you work in a company, you can consider supporting young people by sharing your experience and job at a nearby school or college. This helps young people get exposed to a variety of career paths. Time stamps of key moments in the podcast episode & transcript: 00:03:31 sharing her passion for supporting the youth 00:04:33 introducing the Youth Employment and Opportunities team 00:06:10 bridging the gap between industry and education 00:0759 some of the challenges she has had to overcome 00:13:43 the impact she has made Listen to the episode and read the transcript on www.meetthemancunian.co.uk [http://www.meetthemancunian.co.uk/]

Hear the leaders of pioneering cities and regions sharing their approach to providing the most liveable, healthy and desirable environment while enabling an increasing number of high-value well-paid jobs. Learn how different strategies are being applied to attract low carbon infrastructure and technology investments, in line with local conditions and challenges. Featuring Prof. Greg Clark CBE (Chair, Connected Places Catapult and 3Ci), Ben Houchen (Metro Mayor, Tees Valley), Mark Atheron (Director of Environment, Greater Manchester Combined Authority), Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh (Mayor, City of Malmö), Philip Glanville (Mayor, London Borough of Hackney), and Joana Balsemão (Deputy Mayor, City of Cascais). The inaugural Innovation Zero Congress at Olympia London in 2023 convened 6,866 passionate, forward-looking experts who exchanged critical knowledge, debate and discussions around the implementation and scaling of the innovations needed to meet the Paris goals. Learn more via www.innovationzero.com.

Zoe Brooke is Director at Whitfield & Brown Limited, Principal Contractor operating throughout the North West and Founder & Chair of The Save Construction Initiative. She is a former Chair of the Constructing Excellence Clubs Network. Zoe played a pivotal role in championing Constructing Excellence with her involvement as Chair of the Liverpool Club before taking the Chair position for the North West in 2017.  Most recently, Zoe has become a Careers & Enterprise Advisor with Greater Manchester Combined Authority & Salford City Council, allowing her to positively promote construction in schools, address equality & diversity to future proof the industry from further skill shortage.

Better use of data is key to more effective government. Across government, teams are doing fascinating work with data. But those projects don't get the attention they deserve.   At our latest event, the 36th in our series, where the speakers will present their work in an exciting, quickfire format. Each speaker has eight minutes, followed by eight minutes of questions from the audience.   December's speakers were:  Ishraq Irteza, Deployment Strategist at Palantir Technologies, on the use of data in the Homes for Ukraine scheme Chris Pope, Principal for Research covering Digital, and Information Strategy at the Greater Manchester Combined Authority on data for local areas Tom Smith, Director of the Spatial Data Unit and Chief Data Officer, at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, on data for levelling up Liz Zeidler, Chief Executive, at the Centre for Thriving Places The event was chaired by Gavin Freeguard, Associate at the Institute for Government. We would like to thank Palantir for kindly supporting this event.

At this Vital Topics event we will explore how Covid-19 has created opportunities for change across both central and local government, while our panel will also share their thoughts on the need for deeper resilience building as life gradually returns to normal in the wake of the pandemic. Much has been written over the past two years about how the pandemic will create opportunities for transformative change. But where do we stand today, and is that transformative change really likely to happen? At this Vital Topics event we will look at how Covid-19 has created opportunities for change across both central and local government, while our panel will also share their thoughts on the need for deeper resilience building as life gradually returns to normal in the wake of the pandemic. Our speakers will also explore the need for society to better engage with this agenda and at what decision-makers need to be doing to further embed the recovery among local communities. Chaired by Dr Simos Chari, joining us on our panel will be Duncan Shaw, Professor of Operational Research and Critical Systems at Alliance Manchester Business School, Dr Kathy Oldham OBE, Chief Resilience Officer for Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Andy Wright, former Chief Executive at Braintree District Council and Issa Kassis, the Mayor of Ramallah.

In the latest episode of our Business Matters podcast series, we speak to Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester Combined Authority and Transport for the North Board member. He discusses how the Manchester city region is “on the up” and has become Europe's fastest growing digital and tech hub, with ambitions to be the UK's leading green city region. With the UK's largest student population combined with the diverse talent base already in the region, Mayor Burnham believes Manchester offers huge appeal to businesses looking to recruit in the area. But he said investment is needed to ensure the transport system is world class. He believes connectivity and integration across all modes is vital to moving away from a fragmented and unreliable service. The recent decision to bring bus services under public control, he says, will help the move to a more integrated London-style public transport network. We also discuss the role of Transport for the North in bringing both political and business leaders together to speak with one voice on the transport issues impacting the region. You can share your thoughts on our podcasts by Tweeting and tagging us with @Transport4North!

The long-awaited government white paper on levelling up is due to be published in early 2022, but the government alone cannot pay for the policies needed to help the UK's left-behind areas. So what can ministers do to involve the private sector in shaping and delivering the levelling up agenda? What more can be done to unlock greater private sector investment? How can private investment deliver social as well as economic impact? What lessons can be drawn from previous public-private partnerships to deliver major infrastructure improvements? To discuss these questions, the IfG was delighted to host an expert panel including: Kevin Hollinrake MP, Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Fair Business Banking and member of the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee Stephen Muers, Chief Executive Officer at Big Society Capital Sara Williams, CEO of the Staffordshire Chambers of Commerce John Wrathmell, Director, Strategy, Research and Economy at the Greater Manchester Combined Authority. The event was chaired by Dr Gemma Tetlow, Chief Economist at the Institute for Government. #IfGlevellingup We would like to thank Big Society Capital for supporting this event.

The long-awaited government white paper on levelling up is due to be published in early 2022, but the government alone cannot pay for the policies needed to help the UK's left-behind areas. So what can ministers do to involve the private sector in shaping and delivering the levelling up agenda? What more can be done to unlock greater private sector investment? How can private investment deliver social as well as economic impact? What lessons can be drawn from previous public-private partnerships to deliver major infrastructure improvements? To discuss these questions, the IfG was delighted to host an expert panel including: Kevin Hollinrake MP, Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Fair Business Banking and member of the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee Stephen Muers, Chief Executive Officer at Big Society Capital Sara Williams, CEO of the Staffordshire Chambers of Commerce John Wrathmell, Director, Strategy, Research and Economy at the Greater Manchester Combined Authority. The event was chaired by Dr Gemma Tetlow, Chief Economist at the Institute for Government. We would like to thank Big Society Capital for supporting this event.

Today we're talking all things reuse and renew with Daniel Carolan and Samantha Carty from SUEZ. SUEZ are a waste management company here in the UK, and are responsible for the collection and sorting of household waste in many areas around the country, including Greater Manchester Combined Authority, where they're spearheading a super exciting project - […]

“There's a real sense of collaboration in Manchester that's quite unique” Dr Kirsty Fairclough is a reader in Screen Studies and Chair of the Manchester Jazz Festival.  She's also on the Music Board for the Greater Manchester Combined Authority - and as you'll hear in this interview, she oozes Manchester music culture.  However, it's not just the maraca shaking scene of the nineties that Kirsty champions, as she says, there's so much more. You'll hear how Kirsty went from gaining two GCSEs in high school, to lecturing at The University of Salford, just one year after graduating herself, at the age of 21. You'll also hear how Kirsty connected Manchester and Minneapolis through her love of Prince. Lisa and Kirsty also discuss the exciting development of Manchester Metropolitan University's new SODA building and how the Manchester music scene is recovering after the pandemic, through creating new opportunities for young emerging artists. ------ Your host, Lisa Morton, started PR company Roland Dransfield in 1996, one month after the fateful IRA bomb that tore apart the city centre.  From that point, the business, and its team members, have been involved in helping to support the creation of Modern Manchester – across regeneration, business, charity, leisure and hospitality, sport and culture. To celebrate the 25 years that Roland Dransfield has spent creating these bonds, Lisa is gathering together some of her Greater Mancunian ‘family' and will be exploring how they have created their own purposeful relationships with the best place in the world. Connect with Lisa and Roland Dransfield:  Via our website On Instagram On Twitter On Spotify Connect with Kirsty Via the SODA website On Twitter

In this episode, we explore the ways in which public authorities are working towards Greater Manchester's net-zero carbon target of 2038 and hear about the drivers and the challenges involved. To discuss this our host Paul Unger was joined by Sarah Holland, programme and policy lead for energy at Greater Manchester Combined Authority; Dmitri Korolenko, lead sustainability & physics engineer at SI Sealy; and by Matt Pickford, technical director at SI Sealy. To find out more, visit sisealy.co.uk

How much does nature contribute to a regional economy, the health and well-being of its residents, as well as to building climate resilient communities? Greater Manchester Combined Authority's Sam Evans and Krista Patrick share the findings of its natural capital account and its journey to moving from public funding into attracting private investment with Green Finance Institute hosts Ryan Jude and Helen Avery.

When we think about how places change, we often think in the short term over single business cycles, Mayoral terms or a city's immediate response to crises and formative events. But stepping back and taking the longer view can also be helpful, especially in light of the profound changes that that have shaped England's cities in recent decades. In this episode we explore the story of one of England's most iconic city regions – Greater Manchester – with one of the city's most influential civic leaders over the last 25 years, Sir Howard Bernstein. We ask what Manchester's last quarter century might tell us about the next. How the reforms to local government over this period such as Metro Mayors and City Deals have helped to shape a “Manchester Model” and what the next phase in the city's devolution journey might look like. What the ingredients for success have been in shaping Manchester's innovation economy, and how the vision of connected places and digital connectivity is at the heart of future growth, resilience and prosperity. Prof. Greg Clark CBE, Chair of the Connected Places Catapult speaks to Sir Howard Bernstein, former Chief Executive of Manchester City Council and former Head of the Paid Service of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority. Sir Howard led a team which oversaw the regeneration of the city and transformational economic change over 25 years. Among many other hats, Sir Howard is an Honorary Prof. of Politics at Manchester University, he sits on the Board of Health Innovation Manchester and he's a Strategic Advisor to Deloitte.  Music on this episode is by Blue Dot Sessions and Phill Ward Music (www.phillward.com) Show notes: To learn more about the Manchester City Region and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority you can read Our People Our Place: The Greater Manchester Strategy, as well as a White Paper on the The Manchester Model of unified public services. If you're interested the often tricky question of how to procure innovation, come along to the next event in our Challenging Procurement Series: Co-creating Innovation which is being held on 14th June. You'll get a chance to hear case studies and best practices in procurement, and learn why citizen-led projects are often cited as a powerful tool by innovative public sector organisations. To register, click here. To register for our next Virtual Connections Café on 9th June, click here. These SME innovation support webinars explore developments and opportunities in the built environment and mobility sectors, as well as offering support and guidance to growing businesses. Follow the show! Don't forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Please also take a moment to write a review and rate us so that more people can hear about the podcast and what we do at Connected Places Catapult. 

‘Levelling up' has become an earworm. It featured highly in the Conservative manifesto in 2019, which was referring to improving infrastructure, skills, productivity and economic growth across the country. The idea is to make the UK economy less lop-sided, and less focused on London and the South East.  The aim of ‘levelling up' has gained even more potency because of the pandemic. For those working in health, policies to level up might also help tackle avoidable inequalities set out by Marmot and others, caused by factors injuring health like poor housing, low quality work, and low skills. In short, poverty and deprivation. But the government's levelling up strategy is still under construction. The recently announced Levelling Up Fund is mainly focused on basic infrastructure like transport, not health. So is levelling up a real and serious aspiration? What would a strategy look like that might also help reduce health inequalities? In the latest episode of our podcast, our Chief Executive Dr Jennifer Dixon discusses these issues with two expert guests: Professor Diane Coyle is an economist and the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. Diane has many other distinguished roles, including advising the government on economic policy during the pandemic, and leading an independent review for Greater Manchester, which shaped its industrial strategy Sir Howard Bernstein was the Chief Executive of Manchester City Council from 1998 to 2017 and is honorary chair in politics at University of Manchester. He led the devolution of power and budgets to Greater Manchester – the ‘DevoManc' deal signed between the Government and Greater Manchester Combined Authority in November 2014. He is also a member of a new taskforce set up by the government to advise on the regeneration and development of town and city centres in the wake of COVID-19. 

Join us as we catch up with TfN board member Mayor Andy Burnham, who is the Mayor of Greater Manchester Combined Authority. Greater Manchester is renowned for its industrial heritage, vibrant music scene, successful sports clubs and much more! In this episode, the Mayor speaks to us about the successes of Metrolink in Manchester and the potential for expanding the popular city tram network. The Mayor also tells us that transport is at the heart of the levelling up agenda, in addition to considering the wider infrastructure and social issues that need to be addressed in the North, which includes providing new homes and opportunities for people. Listen now to find out more and make sure you tweet your thoughts using #TfNPod. Don't forget to follow the podcast to make sure you never miss an episode! This conversation took place on 22nd February 2021, before the UK Budget was set out on 3rd March 2021. https://transportforthenorth.com/our-north/local-authorities/greater-manchester/

This special edition podcast forms part of a re-commissioning process and consultation, which Flourish has carried out in partnership with 10GM (http://www.10gm.org.uk/) for the Greater Manchester Combined Authority. (https://www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/) Hear how women with lived experience share views and insights on how to improve services to better meet their needs and help budget holders to Commission with Compassion & Conviction. Throughout late summer and autumn 2020, we carried out a series of interviews with diverse women with lived experience, women led support organisations and commissioners directly, to help understand the needs of women. The aim was to draw out wider perspectives, shine a light on 'Hidden voices and views' and amplify their experiences and ideas to improve how Women's Centres and support can wider meet the needs of women who come into contact with the Criminal Justice System as victims or perpetrators. In this podcast you'll hear from Martin Nugent at the GMCA giving the perspective of a commissioner, Liz Windsor Welsh from 10GM and Action Together (https://www.actiontogether.org.uk/) reflecting on the research we carried out and most importantly a diverse range of women from across the Flourish network and beyond sharing their views, experiences and 'Big Asks' to Commissioners. At Flourish we believe we all have our part to play in ensuring women, families and communities are invested in and well supported in order to flourish, so we hope the lessons learned through this consultation, report and podcast gives food for thought and recommendations we can all act upon. If you would like to read the report see HERE (http://10gm.org.uk/assets/files/10GM-Consultation-recommissioningwomenssupportservicesFINALREPORT.pdf) and hear more from women with lived experience on these issues via the listen again version of a Round Table discussion we had as part of the consultation HERE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vve-qL6naY) . Special Thanks all our contributors for this podcast:  Martin Nugent at the GMCA, Liz Windsor Welsh 10GM and Action Together, Selina Hanley Benevolent Life Change, (https://www.benevolentlifechange.co.uk/) Louise Waddington at Make A Pathway (https://www.makeapathway.org.uk/who-we-are/) , Tina Carnally at Forward (https://forwardlgbt.org.uk/) , Val Hogan at Verve Foster Care Recruitment (https://ververecruitment.org/) and Jasmin Bakhre at Women with Wings (https://womenwithwingsgroup.org/) . (https://www.gmcvo.org.uk/) For more info on our upcoming events, visit our eventbrite page (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/flourish-cic-12424608687) . Supporting Women in Social Enterprise is a MIC Media Production @MICmediaUK (https://twitter.com/MICmediaUK) and is produced and edited by Vic Elizabeth Turnbull @SilentVic (https://twitter.com/SilentVic)

Downtown in Business was joined by a number of the UK's leading Night-Time economy personalities for an in-depth discussion on the nightlife industry and how it has been affected by the pandemic, the 10pm curfew and other restrictions. Thanks to Rich McGinnis, Founder of Chibuku Liverpool; Sacha Lord, Night Time Economy Advisor for Greater Manchester Combined Authority and Co Founder of Warehouse Project and Parklife Festival; Naomi Aly, Marketing Manager for Aluna Birmingham and John James, Managing Director of Soho Estates London for joining us for this fascinating discussion.

Downtown Chief Executive was joined in the Downtown Den by the Chief Executive of Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Eamonn Boylan.

Public health doctors don't dash around hospitals wearing white coats brandishing stethoscopes. The work of this medical specialty is mainly outside of hospitals and it has a very long history. It has a local, national and global reach, an international skeleton charged with the care of populations. And in this pandemic, it is public health which is doing the heavy lifting. In this special edition of Inside Health Dr Margaret McCartney investigates the serious questions being raised about the UK's public health response to trying to stop the spread of the virus, and how tension, over the performance of the government's Test and Trace programme, has spilled out into the open. Margaret hears from Directors of Public Health who feel that their role and expertise in local communities working closely with local Public Health England teams has been overlooked. Instead a new national Test and Trace system has been set up using private companies outside the traditional public health infrastructure. The DPH for Wigan and lead director of public health for the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Professor Kate Ardern, tells Margaret she believes government didn't understand the role and the experience of local public health teams and so instead of empowering them to oversee test, trace and isolate services, set up a new national system, from scratch, using private companies without public health experience. And the data needed locally to identify and deal with Covid cases, she tells Margaret, just hasn't come through. This is despite the fact that the law is clear; Covid is a notifiable disease and local directors of public health should receive the information. Margaret explores the history of public health with Professor Martin Gorsky from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and hears from Professor of Global Health at Queen Mary, University of London, David McCoy, who believes the very structure of public health institutions after the 2012 Health and Social Care fragmented the service, leaving the country vulnerable (as he and 400 other experts warned at the time) to a pandemic. Public Health England's Medical Director, Professor Yvonne Doyle, rejects suggestions that PHE is insufficiently independent from government and insists that both national and local public health teams have pulled together in these unprecedented times. Producer: Fiona Hill

The Mash Report’s Rachel Parris discusses why her private life rather than politics has inspired her new stand up show, All Change Please. As the Greater Manchester Combined Authority announces increased funding for arts venues across its ten boroughs, we talk to Mayor of Greater Manchester and former Culture Secretary Andy Burnham about the effect Local Government funding cuts have had on councils’ cultural activities. Actor and writer Mark Gatiss discusses his lifelong fascination with the artist Aubrey Beardsley, who died of tuberculosis in 1898 at the age of just 25. Gatiss has made a BBC4 film about Beardsley, famous for his distinctive black and white drawings, which coincides with an extensive new exhibition at Tate Britain of the artist’s work. Presenter: John Wilson Producer: Sarah Johnson

Joining us on this PSE Podcast are two members from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority. Chief Executive Eamonn Boylan and Andrew Lightfoot, Strategic Director – Public Service Reform.

Manchester Central recently commissioned The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) to conduct a piece of research to reveal the venue's economic impact to the city.Join host Samantha Pike-Devlin, Digital Communications Executive at Manchester Central, Shaun Hinds, CEO of Manchester Central, Nick Richardson, CEO of The Insights People (now known as Kids Insights) and Emma Orsolic, Lead Analyst at Greater Manchester Combined Authority, as they discuss the findings of the research and what they think it is about Manchester that makes it an attractive option to event planners both nationally and internationally.Read more about the 'Value of Events' research paper on our websiteFind out more about Kids InsightsFind out more about the services that the GMCA provideFollow Manchester Central: Twitter | Instagram

This week's podcast is an Andy Burnham special, featuring an exclusive interview with the Mayor of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, discussing the positive effects of devolution. Burnham gives his thoughts on a whole-place approach to reforming services, Whitehall's top down approach and of course football.

On this week’s Tech Talk Radio, Emily Wright is joined by EG’s new tech reporter Lucy Alderson who makes her TTR debut with the last episode of the geospatial mapping podcast trilogy. She spoke to Chris Pope, spatial data analytics manager for Greater Manchester Combined Authority who was tasked with creating and developing MappingGM, an online resource that maps the social and physical infrastructure across the Greater Manchester region. Tune in to listen to Pope talk about the challenges of setting up MappingGM, the need for more residential data across the region, and how the Manchester property scene and beyond has responded to the resource.  All this and an (even) funkier tech talk jingle on this week’s episode.

News    Measuring Gender Diversity with LinkedIn Data    LinkedIn's weird names for software. An explanation.    Have you taken up the offer of a free trial of Lynda.com?    Viveka Von Rosen's excellent article on LinkedIn mobile    LinkedIn's economic graph comes to Manchester in an attempt to bridge the skills gap. This is also an interesting Q&A from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority perspective.Commentary    This week I take a look at LinkedIn's new revamped Pulse mobile app. Are LinkedIn at last starting to get the hang of mobile apps? You can view my video review belowQuestionsThis week I have a question for you! Although the above post/comments are funny there is a more serious point that I believe is worth discussing in next weeks episode.    Should LinkedIn just be about 'serious business topics?    Is it becoming more like Facebook and is that a bad thing?    Where do you draw the line on 'appropriateness' or does anything go?