The most recent Roadshow was held at Southampton University during Freshers’ Week. Students had a chance to hear speakers from the University and Adecco talk about the importance of purpose in an organisation and how that translated into real action.

The University of Greenwich is a multi-campus university with bases in Greenwich, Avery Hill and Medway. While each campus has a unique identity, everyone on our campuses has a shared purpose: to create opportunities and change lives for the better.

Recruitment specialist Pertemps has launched a Levelling Up Impact Report highlighting its social mobility across the country.

The report, developed in partnership with Rt Hon Justine Greening and the Purpose Coalition, sets out best practice and makes recommendations on where further action can be taken.

Rt Hon Justine Greening and Lord Walney have today launched the Cost of Living Taskforce, made up of businesses and public sector organisations committed to helping their customers, colleagues and communities through this difficult time.

Yet some of the biggest steps forward in the past 20 years in driving social mobility have come from universities working hard to open up higher education to more people and communities, often those the first in their family to go to university, as I was, and it must continue.

Purpose-led businesses identify those amongst their employees, customers and communities who need the most support, whatever their background, wherever they live. They are leading the way in ensuring that resources are properly targeted so that they are most effective.

There was a warm welcome for this week’s historic devolution deal that will see a transfer of new powers to a directly elected mayor serving York and North Yorkshire, with £540 million of government investment over the next 30 years.

As the Conservative leadership race enters its most important phase, there is increasing speculation over how committed the next prime minister will be to levelling up the United Kingdom.

And then there were five. As we hit the weekend, the Conservative Party is whittling down its leadership contenders to the final two, before the 160,000 strong membership make their choice over August. With leadership campaigns reaching fever pitch, any thought of a quiet summer recess for Conservative MPs seems to be rapidly receding.

As we prepare for a summer of sport, with the UK hosting the UEFA Women’s Euros, Professor Karen Stanton, Vice-Chancellor at Solent University, Southampton looks at the role universities and civic partnerships can play in levelling up our communities.

A new report has been launched to celebrate the wide ranging role that universities in the UK play in spreading opportunity. 

The University Best Practice White Paper sets out just some of the actions and projects that are having a direct impact on students and communities.

Universities playing a leading role in levelling up the UK and spreading opportunity have been celebrated at the the Levelling Up Universities Awards 2022.

Every month on our guest blog we get the thoughts of leaders in the higher education sector.

This month we hear from Professor Mark Smith, Vice Chancellor of Southampton University, about levelling up and the importance of diverse views to drive change.

In our latest blog, Anne Milton talks obesity and its extensive impact on physical and mental wellbeing.

In our latest blog, Lord Walney discusses hybrid working and the evolving role of the office.

Former Cabinet Minister, the Rt. Hon. Justine Greening, has formally launched the University of Worcester’s new Levelling Up report during a special visit to the City.

It’s National Loneliness Week and although the world has once again opened up, and most of us are free to carry on with our lives as usual, the problem of loneliness hasn’t gone away.

The University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) has signed up to a new framework to measure its social impact. UWTSD has partnered with former Education Secretary Rt Hon Justine Greening to produce an impact report that will map its activities against the Purpose Goals framework.

The University of Derby has launched a Levelling Up Impact Report in partnership with former Education Secretary Rt Hon Justine Greening. 

Sometimes it’s the smallest things that make the biggest difference - the tiny adjustments we can make to our lives, often over time, that will significantly improve them. That is certainly true of our physical health, but it is also true of our mental health. Often the two are inextricably linked.