Projects and case studies

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  • Jobcentre Plus National Employer Satisfaction & Experience Survey (2011)

    Jobcentre Plus is changing its services to employers in response to opportunities arising from digitalisation, decentralisation and local accountability. The aim of this research, undertaken in partnership with Ipsos MORI, is to measure...

  • Evaluation of Diversity in Apprenticeship Pilots

    This project aimed to inform future policy regarding diversity in apprenticeships. It built on previous research by IES (Marangozov et al 2009*) that explored under-representation in apprenticeships (by gender, race and disability) and reviewed...

  • Evaluation of Unionlearn and Union Learning Fund

    This project was undertaken in partnership with the Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change (CERIC) at the University of Leeds. The project evaluated the impact of UnionLearn and the Union Learning Fund on individuals and companies...

  • Chief Editor for the 2012 Industrial Relations in Europe report

    The European Commission commissioned IES to oversee its Industrial Relations in Europe 2012 report. This role included being responsible for the drafting and writing of two chapters, identifying international expert authors for additional chapters...

  • EU-OSHA web content review

    IES was asked by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) to undertake a review of their current website, examining its information offer and architecture. Drawing on key findings from the mid-term strategy evaluation (currently...

  • Impact of EU-OSHA's Sponsorship of Healthy Workplaces Film Award

    This project evaluated the impact of the European Agency for Health and Safety at Work's sponsorship of 'Healthy Workplaces Award' for films/documentaries about occupational safety and health. The sponsorship of the film award was in its third...

  • National UK expert for a fitness check of the EC information and consultation Directive

    This project provided information on the UK implemention of EU rules on information and consultation, contained in three EC Directives, relating to information and consultation, transfer of undertakings and collective redundancies, in order to...

  • Support services for the peer review in social protection and social inclusion programme

    IES is providing expert input to an EU programme identifying and disseminating good practice in the area of social protection and social inclusion, across EU member states. IES's inputs include helping to organise and facilitate Peer Reviews in...

  • Work Programme Evaluation

    In 2011, the UK government launched the Work Programme, a major new active labour market initiative replacing a multitude of previous welfare-to-work initiatives. It goes further than any previous such programmes in contracting out the delivery of...

  • Employment, Partnership and Skills: a qualitative evaluation

    The Departments for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) have commissioned IES to undertake an evaluation of how well the employment and skills systems work together. This qualitative study is intended to assess the...