Publications

This report containing IES research presents the findings from the transnational learning network, IMPART; a group of 12 EU partners which came together to consider how projects which aim to increase the participation of migrants and ethnic minorities in employment can successfully implement and mainstream their good practice.

This report containing IES research outlines the toolkit created as part of the IMPART project. The IMPART project aimed investigate how the European Social Fund (ESF) could best support projects aimed at increasing the participation of migrants and ethnic minorities in employment.

This report looks at opportunities for change, whilst ensuring your workforce and managers are in a strong position to embark on them.

This report gives an overview of the main challenges and considerations for European actors, stakeholders and policymakers in relation to enterprise restructuring, including how this can be carried out in a way that mitigates possible negative consequences for the workforce and the environment in which enterprises operate. It also contains lessons learned from practice around the EU.

Consensus forecasts were pointing to slowing growth in the EU during 2012, with some at least indicating a return to recession. Sovereign debt issues in a growing number of Member States – the response to them and anxieties regarding their eventual resolution – were one important contributing factor. The decision of the European Central Bank (ECB) to make available nearly 500 billion euros to the banking system in December 2011 appeared to have bought some time to develop a more lasting solution. However, downgrades of sovereign debt in nine Member States by rating agency Standard & Poor once again underlined the fragility of the common currency. General sentiment remained volatile amid fears of a new second phase of the Great Recession of 2008–9...

This is the final report of a project funded by the European Commission and managed by the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organisation, which aimed to examine best practice on anticipating restructuring in Finland, by means of tools to monitor economic and labour market developments and trends, and how far this could be used to help the Baltic States to anticipate restructuring.

This report presents the findings of a project commissioned by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) to evaluate 25 of its ‘Salus & Co.’ strips and captures, designed to communicate messages about occupational safety and health without the need for text. IES was commissioned to conduct an external evaluation to ensure that the ‘Salus & Co.’ messages underpinning the images were understood by different types of target audiences at EU level. The methodology for the evaluation included two main elements: an online survey of OSH-mail participants and face-to-face cognitive interviews with 15 university staff and students.

This publication was authored by Helen Gray before she joined IES.

This paper discusses the potential for new technologies and social networking to facilitate new ways of learning. It presents key themes from research carried out for the NHS into establishing new social networks for knowledge and idea sharing, and also offers hints and tips for establishing a new online community.

Skills for Health commissioned research to examine the ways in which the Scottish Territorial Health Boards had addressed the challenges of serving an ageing, rural and remote population, compounded by the smaller number of working age people in these areas as well as ICT and travel infrastructure issues. Skills for Health aimed to use these lessons to inform health delivery policy and skills development in Scotland and across the UK more widely.