Publications

This research was commisioned by DWP to provide up to date information on people’s attitudes and behaviours around planning for retirement.

This report covers research into the value and impact of the Restart employment programme in terms of the prime Restart providers and the employers they support.

Tales Toolkit is a package of training and resources supporting 3 – 5‑year-old children’s early language and social development through oral storytelling.

This submission of evidence looks at the rise in home-based working since the Covid-19 pandemic in the contexts of labour market participation, skills and career development, work-life balance and productivity and organisational effectiveness.

Dr Zofia Bajorek looks at the current situation facing informal carers in the UK and existing government support, and discusses avenues for improving and widening opportunities and access to support for carers.

Becci Newton considers what we have learnt about providing youth employability support over many years, and considers what we might need in our toolkit to support better outcomes for those joining the labour force now and in the future.

Using recent research insights from the health and adult social care sector and from youth employment, Meenakshi Krishnan and Claudia Plowden Roberts discussed the evolving landscape of racial inequalities in UK workplaces.

This research looks at unfair treatment of workers in health and adult social care. The aim is to understand how discrimination (both in the system and between people) affects staff, and the best way to stop this unfairness by using regulation.

A report on the findings from IES's rapid evidence assessment of to explore effective approaches for promoting employer behaviour change in relation to equality, diversity and inclusion. The research focuses on addressing disparities in youth employment outcomes due to persistent barriers, particularly for young people from ethnic minority backgrounds.

This paper explores the concept of ‘unbound working’, a term which is used to explore high levels of autonomy in relation to ways of working (ie when, how much, where and how), and the consequences of unbound working for employees and their employing organisations.