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Build back better

We are living through unprecedented changes to the world of work. Workers in rural and town communities depend on a smaller number of sectors and are risk from automation, decarbonisation and economic impacts of Covid 19. How can rural and town communities thrive post Covid?

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Annie Maciver in Build back better

Sep 16, 2022

A grey landscape with the towers and buildings of Tiwai Point aluminium smelter visible in the distance

A week in South Island

I’ve finished my second week in New Zealand researching practical innovations to providing education and training in…

Annie Maciver in Build back better

Sep 8, 2022

Picture of Lyall Bay, Wellington. Beautiful day and good waves coming in.

A week in Wellington

I’ve finished my first week of meetings here in Wellington for my research into practical innovations in providing…

Annie Maciver in Build back better

Mar 1, 2021

A skills based economic recovery

It’s all about skills — but what does that actually mean?

Education, defined by the World Economic Forum as ‘the stock of skills, competencies and other productivity enhancing characteristics’, is accepted as key to economic growth as it…

Annie Maciver in Build back better

Mar 6, 2021

Regional skills disparities: focus on people, not just places

Growth is driven as much by the talents and hard work of the people who live there as the infrastructure and investment that underpins the businesses they work in. High skilled workers choose to cluster, living and working…

Annie Maciver in Build back better

Mar 7, 2021

Beacons of hope: New Zealand

New Zealand has a world leading approach to targeting skills to support different regions and respond to changes to the labour market.

I want to find out more about work underway in the New Zealand Government on plans announced in 2019:

Annie Maciver in Build back better

Feb 28, 2021

In a nutshell

Automation and digitisation are changing the nature of jobs and the skills required to do them. Changes to the labour market are felt strongly in rural areas where there is more reliance on manufacturing and carbon intensive industries, and a lower share of services in their economy. People must be able…

Annie Maciver in Build back better

Feb 27, 2021

Researching skills in rural and town communities

Last year, I was awarded a Churchill Fellow travel to isolated places in Sweden and New Zealand to learn how we can ensure rural and town communities have access to retraining.