University of Cambridge

Creating the New Economy: Structuring Markets and Regulating Capital in the Public Interest will gather scholars, policymakers, and journalists at the University of Cambridge, in May 2025, to advance thinking on core elements of the new economic paradigm. Key conference questions include: What policies have states pursued to mobilize and direct capital? How have methods and mechanisms for doing so varied across time periods and across North America, Western Europe, and East Asia? What are the implications of industrial policy for the Global South? The conference will cross the boundaries of nations and disciplines, stimulate conversation between past and present, and scrutinize efforts to translate innovative ideas into concrete policies.

This grant to the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre at the University of Cambridge will support research on the theory of change used in different citizen-led assessments, identifying contextual differences, and linking these theories of change with case studies about how the information generated is used by citizen groups, school communities, and local or national education authorities to design and implement solutions that will lead to improvements in children’s learning.