The research first aims to explore the way that actors in a city-region recognise collective challenges and opportunities, assemble relevant actors, debate different approaches, and secure agreement on solutions.
Drawing lessons from the regional response to Covid-19 in the West Midlands, Liverpool City Region and the North East LEP, it will investigate to what extent partnership working has changed as a result of the pandemic, how joint recovery planning has helped shape thinking and informed action within individual organisations, and what can be learned from the experience for informing the work of existing and future partnerships.