Projects and case studies

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  • Evaluation of Mind's Blue Light programme

    IES was commissioned to evaluate the work and wellbeing strand of Mind’s ‘Blue Light’ initiative, which aims to improve the awareness and management of the mental health of employees in the emergency services.The work involved surveying...

  • Regulatory services officer of the future research

    In early 2014, the Local Government Association commissioned IES to undertake an exploratory research piece on the possible direction for officer roles in council ‘regulatory services' – that is, environmental health, trading standards and...

  • Architects Registration Board Staff Pay Survey 2015

    IES was commissioned to carry out a third staff salary survey for the Architects Registration Board, based on a search of data sources and a bespoke survey of similar organisations.

  • Getting the most out of human resource management: How can HR practices lead to better employee performance and wellbeing?

    IES is collaborating with the University of Brighton to conduct some original research into the links between HR practices and employee performance and well-being.The research study will be led by Dr Luke Fletcher of Brighton Business...

  • Evaluation of Learning and Development in BIS

    The Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) commissioned a project to pilot a strategic approach to evaluating the outcomes of learning and development in BIS and assess how far such an approach could be more widely applied to other...

  • Enhancing everyday working life through meaningfulness initiatives in the workplace

    This study, led by Brighton Business School (University of Brighton), will pilot a short personal development programme with 20 to 25 employees in each participating organisation to find out if meaningfulness improves engagement, performance and...

  • Mindfulness in support of organisational change

    IES, in partnership with Cranfield University, was commissioned by a government department to conduct a systematic review of industry best practice on workplace mindfulness-based applications.The review considered the potential of mindfulness...

  • Knowledge Sharing on Mindfulness

    Following the success of the IES briefing event on Mindfulness at Work early in 2015 and the demand for more on this topic, IES is at the early planning stage of setting up webinars and invitation-only events for organisational leads and experts...

  • Improving the HR and OD capability in shared councils, for the Local Government Association

    At the time of this project 43 district councils in England shared a chief executive with one or more other councils, and displayed various levels of service integration. Such activity is vital to delivering the government's aims of greater...

  • Mindfulness Training and Coaching

    IES are working with a large public sector employer to design, implement and evaluate a mindfulness training programme to promote resilience and retention. To discuss how the principles of mindfulness could be applied and bring improvements to...