Professor Ashwin Kumar will be stepping down as Director of @MMUPERU and Programme Leader of the @MMU Master of Public Administration at the end of April to become Director of Research and Policy @IPPR, whilst staying on @MMUPERU on a part-time basis. @MMU will shortly be recruiting a new Professor of Social Policy to replace him as Director of PERU and a new Reader in Public Policy to run the Master of Public Administration.

In the interim, Professor Gary Pollock will be acting Director of PERU and Dr Mansour Pourmehdi will be acting Programme Leader for the Master of Public Administration.