Projects and case studies

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  • Skills for Self-employment

    The Institute for Employment Studies was commissioned by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) to undertake a small-scale exploratory study looking at the relationship between the skills of the workforce and the skills necessary for...

  • Implications of ICT for employment relations

    This small-scale IES research project for Acas looked into the implications of social networking and mobile ICT technologies for employment relations, particularly in the context of developments in virtual working. It attempted to inform the...

  • Trapped or Flexible: Risk Transitions and Missing Policies for Young High-Skilled workers in Europe

    IES was one of the partners in an EU-wide consortium (led by Istituto per la Ricerca Sociale – IRS Milan) which undertook a pilot project (as part of the EU’s Lifelong Learning Programme) to encourage conversion of precarious work into...

  • Skills Development in Sparsely and Densely Populated Areas

    Skills for Health commissioned IES to undertake a study to help in developing solutions on skills development and utilisation for Scottish health care employers who are operating in sparsely and densely populated areas. It also explored whether...

  • European Safety and Health Strategy evaluation

    This was a mid-term evaluation of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work's (EU-OSHA) Strategy 2009-2014 that focused on its initial outputs and implementation stage. It also provided feedback on intermediate outcomes of EU-OSHA...

  • Green Skills and environmental awareness in vocational education and training

    IES investigated the gaps between future skills needs and learning provision relating to nine 'green' occupations in eight EU countries: the UK, Finland, the Netherlands, Greece, Italy, Germany, Hungary and the Slovak Republic. The research was...

  • Analysis of Longitudinal Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education (LDLHE)

    The project builds on ‘What do Researchers do? Doctoral graduate destinations and impact three years on’ to explore in more detail the occupational movement over time of doctoral graduates and to further investigate career intentions and...

  • Experiences, Attitudes and Approaches to Collective and Individual Dispute Resolution

    IES was commissioned to conduct a small-scale qualitative research exercise with public sector employers, based on in-depth qualitative interviews with employee relations / human resources heads across a range of public sector bodies. The purpose...

  • HR leadership team development: a case study

    Jacqueline Wiltshire, HR Director, Ealing CouncilSituationIn 2006 an Audit Commission report painted a gloomy picture of the HR function at Ealing Council. The troubled department was failing to provide a good HR service to the organisation and...

  • Redeveloping performance appraisal and the link to pay

    In 2010, a government department decided to give consideration to redeveloping its performance appraisal process and the link to performance related pay. IES was asked to help. The aim was to ensure these systems reflected 'best practice' and...