Projects and case studies
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Working Lives Survey
IES, in partnership with Employment Research Ltd, will conduct the Bar Council Working Lives 2020 survey. IES/ERL will survey barristers using details form the Bar Council's database, and will analyse the survey responses to provide the...
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UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships fund - Evaluation scoping and feasibility study
The Future Leaders Fellowships is a pan-UKRI flagship programme which will receive £900 million over the next 11 years, with six funding competitions and up to 550 Fellowships awarded. The programme aims to develop the next generation of research...
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Evaluation of the National Leadership Centre
Working in partership with Ipsos MORI, IES will conduct independent process, impact and economic evaluation of the National Leadership Centre (NLC).The NLC was launched by the Chancellor in 2018 as a threee year pilot and seeks to transform...
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Teachers' and leaders' views on the pay framework: a review
In 2014/15 the Department for Education (DfE) implemented significant reforms to the pay framework for teachers, with the aim of introducing a more flexible performance- based structure. In May 2018 the DfE commissioned IES to collect views...
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The impact of the minimum wage on employment and hours, including the impact on young workers
The aim of the research is to assess the impact of the introduction of the National Living Wage (NLW) in April 2016 and its successive updating on employment and hours worked.It will be based on an individual-level analyses of the Labour Force...
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Understanding the conditions for successful mental health training for managers
IES is conducting:a review of mental health training to determine the best topics to train line managers in, the best method(s) of delivering the training and the best means of measuring beneficial impacts; andan evaluation of two types of...
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Evaluating Mind's Blue Light initiative for new emergency services recruits
IES evaluated Mind's latest Blue Light initiative which involved mental health and wellbeing training for new recruits in the emergency services. The work involved training observations, qualitative interviewing, focus groups and a census...
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Construction Skills Fund On-Site Training Hubs programme
IES is evaluating the Construction Industry Training Board’s On-Site Training Hubs programme. There are around 20 training hubs in England, located on home-building and infrastructure sites. The hubs are training new entrants to the construction...
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Development of an EU framework to assess the overall impacts of occupational health and safety prevention on the performance of construction enterprises
In partnership with Ecorys Netherlands and on behalf of the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (EASME), we will explore the productivity and business benefits of occupational health and safety (OSH) good practice in the...
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Housing First evaluation
On behalf of the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, IES is designing an impact evaluation of three Housing First pilots, running in Liverpool City Region, Greater Manchester and the West Midlands. The intervention is a...