Projects and case studies

  • Lessons from the HSE Stress Management Pilot

    IES examined, for the Health & Safety Executive, progress made by employers in six key sectors with regard to their participation in the HSE’s Stress Management Pilot. The Stress Management Pilot was initiated in June 2005 and involved...

  • Evaluation of Healthy Workplace Solutions

    The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) commissioned IES to assess the effectiveness of specific elements of its Healthy Workplace Solutions intervention. This was designed to encourage a larger number of organisations in seven target sectors to...

  • Black and Ethnic Minority Apprenticeship Experiences

    SummitSkills, the sector skills council for building and engineering, has identified in its Action Plan the need for more research to help them in their efforts to increase the diversity of the workforce in the building services engineering sector...

  • Evaluation of West Midlands Regional Coaching Pool

    The West Midlands Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnership commissioned IES to conduct an independent external evaluation of its coaching pool activities. IES explored the outcomes of the coaching in terms of performance improvement on the...

  • Coaching, Women, and a Seat on the Board

    IES worked with the Foundation of Coaching (New York) to examine issues relating to the coaching of senior women managers, looking in particular at the reasons why women decide to, or decide not to, apply for board-level positions.The research...

  • What Works in Delivering Improved Health and Safety Outcomes?

    The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) commissioned a comprehensive assessment of what approaches work best to deliver HSE policies and objectives. This project also investigated how HSE programmes are influenced by research and how decision-making...

  • Evaluating the Duty to Manage Asbestos

    The Duty to Manage Asbestos Regulations are aimed at reducing exposure to asbestos amongst maintenance workers in commercial properties and the communal areas of domestic premises. IES was commissioned by the Health and Safety Executive to provide...

  • Describing the Radiography Workforce

    A joint project between the University of Hertfordshire and IES was run to identify and quantify the different healthcare environments in which the radiography workforce functions. It quantified the radiography workforce within the career...

  • Impact of Changes in Provision on People over the Age of 19 with Learning Difficulties and/or Disabilities

    The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) commissioned IES to assess the impact of changes in provision for learners, on people with learning difficulties and/or disabilities (LDD) over the age of 19. The research assessed how learning providers...

  • Mapping Postgraduate Art and Design Provision

    IES worked with the Open University (OU) to map the provision of postgraduate art and design courses. Data were collected from learners with different backgrounds to explore attitudes towards and perceptions of provision. The National Arts...