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IES are partnering with Trussell on new research to understand how employment support and Universal Credit conditionality can better meet the needs of people facing complex barriers to work.
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This research aim to provide evidence on what does and does not work in leadership and career progression programmes aimed at increasing diversity in senior leadership of large firms and in-house teams. The aim is to identify barriers, effective features, gaps in current practices, and evidence of impact to support the design, improvement or implementation of such programmes.
IES is delivering a series of Better Jobs Programme workshops and follow up support to JLP UK suppliers. The aim is to bring suppliers together to better understand, share and promote best practice on topics that support good work for their employees. This will be targeted at those suppliers who have actively engaged in the JLP Better Jobs programme in the UK.
Keeping nurses at work is a national priority. This study funded by National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) aims to find out more about the motivations of later-career nurses (defined as those aged 45 and over) to help determine what would encourage them to stay longer in nursing and the NHS. The research involves a literature review, analysis of nursing and labour force data, career narative interviews, and surveys including a Descrete Choice Experiment.
CITB wishes to continue to build on its portfolio of research activity into careers in construction and to expand this to be as all-encompassing as possible (considering the whole journey into a career in construction). This latest phase of the research will have two objectives: to continue to collect key performance indicators (KPIs) from parents and young people and feedback from career guidance professionals to enable CITB to monitor and evaluate their careers activities (annually from 2024-2029); and conduct exploratory research with young people; and experimental research exploring the impact of social class of career decision making through a literature reiew and stakeholder interviews (2024-2025).
We are working with the North Central London Integrated Care Board to develop a new work and health strategy. The project comprises desk research, partner and resident engagement, data analysis and strategy development.
The project will supply an evaluation of London's Adult Maths Multiply Programme including Outreach Roadshow provision. The evaluation will explore effectiveness of the different elements and provide formative and summative feedback on progress. The research will involve qualitative research and surveys to feed into reports.
This is the fifth employee engagement that IES has managed on behalf of the OIAHE, previous surveys being in 2012, 2014, 2017 and 2020.
IES is supporting CRAC with the creation of a career tracking survey for recipients of the British Academy's early career grants: Postdoctoral...
Review of evidence of effectiveness of different approaches to 'work first' activation policies, to try to inform future delivery of UK employment services. Project will comprise a rapid review of evaluations of ‘work first’ interventions, development of a typology for defining ‘work first’ support, and then an assessment of the impact and effectiveness of each type of approach.
Data analysis to support the impact evaluation of The Sutton Trust's UK Summer Schools and Pathways to the Professions programmes. The work involves analysis of Sutton Trust applicant data to identify a matched comparator group of unsuccessful applicants for their submission to the UCAS Outreach Evaluator, and analysis of HESA student data on successful participants and unsuccessful applicants to examine differences in HE access and success.
