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Dr Peter O'Brien, Executive Director of Yorkshire Universities

Dr Peter O’Brien

Dr Peter O’Brien is Executive Director of Yorkshire Universities

Universities as a facilitator for place-based Industrial Strategies

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View of Sheffield at night with cooling towers in the foreground.

Earlier this year, YU’s Board of Vice-Chancellors agreed that YU should seek to widen and deepen the collective role of universities in place-based development and the Industrial Strategy.

Recently, YU held a roundtable in Leeds with Universities UK (UUK), which brought together universities, local enterprise partnerships (LEPs), combined authorities, government and national research funding agencies.