Investigating the potential effects of the heatwave in Coventry
Presented by Andy Baker, Coventry City Council
Contact: Andrew Baker

Urban Audit – providing comparable urban statistics across Europe
Presented by Bill South, Office for National Statistics (ONS)
Contact: Bill South

Quality markers – co-producing quality monitoring in social care with peer reviewers
Presented by Rach Flowers and Liam Abraham, Warwickshire County Council
Contact: Rachel Flowers

Local spending on adult social care
Presented by Rose Martin, National Audit Office (NAO)
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Contact: Rose Martin

Land Use Economic Modelling – Delta Package 
Presented by Richard Potter, Analytics Cambridge
(Awaiting PDF)
Contact: Richard Potter

Photo Credit: Coventry City Hall Sheep Purple

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This will be LARIA’s 40th anniversary and we are looking for the 2014 conference to be our biggest and most successful yet. We know that the public sector continues to face a challenging financial climate at the same time as a rising demand for services. This conference will be about how local research makes a difference. This follows the challenge set at our 2013 Conference by Martin Reeves, our honorary president. Our speakers will illustrate how we can meet this challenge by showing research that is:

• Fit for purpose
• Rapid and robust
• Include communities and others
• Able to have impact on local services and communities

You can also download a pdf of the conference 2014 programme

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• To promote the role and importance of researchers working in local government and across local public services
• To actively promote the importance of LARIA as the leading professional body that supports and represents local researchers working in the public sector
• To act as a mentor/sounding board for LARIA’s ‘Strategy & Policy Group’ to help its thinking in shaping and influencing the future direction of LARIA
• To identify a network of Chief Executives/SOLACE members that can help support LARIA and the role for local public sector research.

“I’m very proud to be taking on the new role of LARIA’s Honorary President for the next two years. I have been the Chief Executive of Coventry City Council for the past two and a half years. I’m also the CEO of Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership. I have a background in research and the first half of my professional career was as a lecturer and researcher. My first job in local government was as a Policy & Research Manager at a small Surrey district and I went on the lead policy and research teams at departmental and corporate levels in two London councils.

Throughout my career I’ve also led several high profile transformation programmes, and I’ve made sure that all of these have had research and intelligence at their heart. So, as research practitioners I totally understand you as a profession, and I understand the challenges that you face both currently and for the future.”

Photo credit: Martin Reeves at LARIA Conference 2013 in Manchester. Taken by Global1-Digital Images)

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