Projects and case studies

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  • Survey of recently-qualified veterinary surgeons

    On behalf of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS), IES conducted an online survey of people who have qualified from one of the UK’s seven veterinary schools over the past five years. There was anecdotal evidence that newly-qualified...

  • The leadership legacy of LSIS

    Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) commissioned IES to produce a legacy report on LSIS’s contribution and achievements in developing and improving leadership in the further education and skills sector. The legacy paper built on...

  • Listening to Business

    The aim of this project was to provide UKCES with leading UK employer insight through developing and maintaining a community of influential business leaders and through offering bespoke insight and analysis of sources of data.IES, with partners...

  • 2014 survey of the vet surgeon and vet nurse professions

    The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) asked IES to conduct its 2014 surveys of the veterinary surgeon (VS) and veterinary nurse (VN) professions.The surveys, launched in January 2014, collected data about the working lives and attitudes...

  • Review of the Human Resources Function within NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

    A review of the HR function of the organisation in the context of the retirement of the HR director, the possible establishment of a cross NHS Scotland HR shared services model and the introduction of a new HRIS.

  • Enhancing and Embedding Staff Engagement in the NHS: Putting Theory into Practice

    IES partnered with Kent Business School, Warwick Business School and the University of Tilburg to carry out a systematic evidence synthesis of staff engagement in the NHS, on behalf of NIHR. The research project addressed the question: what...

  • Reducing the occupational sickness absence rate for an NHS Trust

    IES advised Mersey Care on how it might reduce its absence levels in its high security unit.Mersey Care NHS Trust wished to review its occupational sickness rate to examine the causes of absence and potential ways of reducing it. IES was asked to...

  • Examination of the Evidence for Preparing, Sustaining and Enhancing Psychological and Physical Well-Being – Psychological Resilience

    The purpose of this study was to enhance the MOD's understanding of the perspective of healthy and motivated personnel with respect to positive adaptation: what are the self-protecting factors that lead to effective coping mechanisms, when faced...

  • HR review at a Further Education college

    In 2013 a London FE college expressed the desire to ensure that it had an ‘optimum central support infrastructure in place’. This was seen to be especially necessary against a background of its expansion and during a period of fast changing...

  • Organisational Development support for NHS Employers

    NHS Employers asked IES to provide Organisational Development support as they went through a process of organisational change from a service to a leading organisation. This first phase focused on the identification of what was needed and planning...