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Six Masters students present research on long-term public challenges

Six Masters students from Bayes Business School and the University of York presented research on health, welfare, social care and climate risks, supervised by…

--- The context --- Six Masters students have presented research projects exploring some of the biggest long-term challenges facing the public sector, with support from experts at the Government Actuary's Department, known as GAD. The work brought academic training together with real public policy questions covering health, welfare, social care and climate-related risks that will shape future decision-making in the United Kingdom. --- The facts --- The students came from Bayes Business School at City St George's, University of London, and the University of York, which hosts the Centre for Health Economics. GAD colleagues acted as industry supervisors, helping the students develop their research and apply academic methods to real-world issues that could impact on future policy across health, welfare and social care provision in Britain. Projects investigated different approaches to measuring population health, including healthy life expectancy and quality-adjusted life years, and explored whether health metrics could help improve understanding of future welfare benefit uptake. Other research examined health-economic evidence on adult social care, including comparisons with Sweden, while another project considered different ways that climate change could affect morbidity in the UK and inform planning. --- The positions --- Professor Les Mayhew of Bayes Business School's Faculty of Actuarial Science and Insurance said indirectly that working with GAD had been a great experience, that the students enjoyed the challenge, that outcomes exceeded all expectations and that he looked forward to continuing the collaboration. Professor Ioannis Kyriakou, from the same faculty, said the partnership gave students an excellent opportunity to apply actuarial training to real public-sector problems. Kyriakou added that the students worked under experienced professionals with joint academic supervision, developed technical, communication and teamwork skills well beyond the classroom, and remained grateful for GAD's generous support and mentoring. Professor Luigi Siciliani of the University of York thanked GAD for offering three exciting placements to students in the MSc in health economics, on topics at the forefront of policy discussions. --- What remains unknown --- The presentation outlines the themes and the participants' assessments, but it does not set out detailed findings from each project or announce policy decisions flowing from them. It also leaves open how the ideas will be used in practice, what follow-up the university collaboration will receive, and how future cohorts of postgraduate students might build on this work with GAD supervisors. --- Unanswered questions --- How will these projects inform concrete public policy choices on health and welfare in Britain? What follow-up will GAD give to the ideas raised by the student research presented here? Will the collaboration with Bayes Business School and the University of York continue with future students? What fresh insight can this work offer on social care and climate-related risks facing the United Kingdom? --- EPM analysis --- The strength of the exercise lies in the meeting between classroom and government: students applied academic methods to questions that shape future health, welfare and care, while GAD gained emerging ideas and different approaches to research. Industry supervision, international comparison and practical training together explain why the participating universities valued the experience beyond the immediate academic results of each presentation delivered by their postgraduate researchers. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, this collaboration works because it connects postgraduate training with the long-term problems public institutions must anticipate, from population health to social care and climate risk. The support voiced by the participating professors and the supervision offered by GAD point to a useful model: applied research, professional mentoring and relevant questions for future public policy in the United Kingdom, with clear formative benefits for students, universities and the institution alike.
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