Projects and case studies
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Estimating the benefits of moving an individual from unemployment into sustainable employment - expert adviser
IES Senior Research Fellow Sally Wilson was an expert adviser to a study modelling the impact of worklessness. She provided expertise on welfare to work interventions and policy background.The model developed will allow local decision makers to...
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Health-led Trial
IES has been commissioned to lead the consortium which is designing and delivering the health-led employment trial evaluation.This will contribute to the achievement of a strategic objective for the newly formed Department for Work and Pensions...
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International Workshop Prague: Flexible working/Job sharing (two workshops & analytical report)
IES was commissioned by the Czech Ministry of Labour to carry out research into flexible working and in particular job-sharing in the UK labour market.The work comprised writing an overview of the regulations for flexible working in the...
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Mapping investment in adult skills – which individuals, in what learning and with what returns?
This project for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills had two elements. Firstly it used publicly-available data to map funding in adult skills by government, employers and learners.Secondly, findings were analysed alongside...
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Employment conditions in the international road haulage sector
IES was commissioned to research a long briefing note for the European Parliament on the subject of working conditions in the European road haulage sector. The project consisted of desk research and some interviews of EU stakeholders.IES...
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Online interactive risk assessment survey
IES was commissioned by EU-OSHA to undertake an online survey to review its community members' experiences of the Agency's online risk assessment tool and consult with broader stakeholders.The survey aimed to inform the Agency's Online...
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Training young trade union leaders
IES was commissioned to help Visionary Analytics, Lithuania, with the structure of questionnaires and the final reports for this evaluation of the progress of young trade union leaders who had received training in the previous five years from...
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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...
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Occupational case studies
IES was commissioned to undertake a series of interviews with employers from which to develop case studies on how the content of selected jobs would develop in the next ten years. These were designed to inform UKCES publications on future...
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Study on diversity within the teaching profession - expert for Greek and Cypriot national reports
IES worked with Ecorys on a project for the European Commission looking at diversity within the teaching profession, with a particular focus on those from migrant/minority backgrounds. The study aimed to:provide a comprehensive analysis and...