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    Researching the Independent Production Sector

    A Focus on Minority Ethnic Led Companies

    Pollard E, Barkworth R, Sheppard E, Tamkin P | Dec 2004 | Pact/UK Film Council

    The film and TV industry has a poor record on diversity. There is low representation of minority groups, particularly those from minority ethnic backgrounds, in the workforce, and in content and portrayal. This is a preliminary study that gathers known literature, industry data, expert views and primary data (both quantitative and qualitative) on the independent production sector within both the film sector and the TV sector.

  • Workforce Planning: A Literature Review

    Sinclair A | Sep 2004 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Workforce planning has been around for a number of years but there has been a resurgence of interest in this HR practice as organisations have begun to realise that the need for planning is greater than ever.

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    The Annual Small Business Survey 2003: UK

    Atkinson J, Hurstfield J | Aug 2004 | Small Business Service

    The Annual Small Business Survey 2003 was a telephone survey of over 8,000 small and medium-sized businesses in the UK. Its main purpose was to gauge the needs and concerns of small businesses and identify the barriers which prevented them from fulfilling their potential.

  • Socio-Economic Research in the Information Society

    A User's Guide from the RESPECT Project

    Huws U | Jul 2004 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This guide is designed as an introduction to socio-economic research for the broader community of research users. It will be of use to research funders, research hosts, research evaluators and reviewers, legal professionals providing advice to researchers, employers and managers of researchers and those involved, both as teachers and as students, in research training, as well as the broad community of socio-economic researchers themselves.

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    ESF Leavers Survey 2002 Objective 3: England

    Atkinson J | Jun 2004 | European Social Fund

    This report presents results of a survey of 3,431 individual beneficiaries who left projects supported under ESF Objective 3 in England during the latter part of 2002. There was considerable variety between different kinds and circumstances of beneficiary, but underpinned by fairly widespread experience of disadvantage across much of the cohort.

  • An EU Code of Ethics for Socio-Economic Research

    Dench S, Iphofen R, Huws U | May 2004 | Institute for Employment Studies

    The RESPECT project involved the development of guidelines, or codes, in a number of separate areas: data protection, intellectual property rights, research ethics, professional issues and professional competencies. This report addresses one aspect of the RESPECT project: the development of a set of ethical guidelines or a 'code' of standards to inform the conduct of socio-economic research in the European Union.

  • Intellectual Property Aspects of Socio-Economic Research

    Gnädig N, Knorpp K, Grosse Ruse H, Giannakoulis M | May 2004 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Socio-economic research creates intellectual property and is itself based on intellectual property. The rules concerning intellectual property rights should always be kept in mind when conducting any kind of socio-economic research. The guidelines in this report should enable those concerned with socio-economic research to take an overview of the rights at stake, and how to take them into account.

  • Functional Map of a European Socio-Economic Research Project

    Schryvers E, Van Gyes G, Vanderbrande T | May 2004 | Institute for Employment Studies

    The RESPECT project involved the development of guidelines, or codes, in a number of separate areas: data protection, intellectual property rights, research ethics, professional issues and professional competencies. This part of the RESPECT project created a professional competency profile.

  • Data Protection Aspects Within the Framework of Socio-Economic Research

    Rosier K, Vereecken I | May 2004 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Socio-economic research involves the collection and other further processing of personal data. The processing of personal data is regulated by law, and the researchers have therefore to comply with these legal requirements. These guidelines have been drafted taking into account Directive 95/46/CE and the national legislation of most of the current Member States of the European Union that implement it. They outline the general principles governing data protection, provide for key concept descriptions, and include a series of recommendations, allowing the researcher to take into consideration the various requirements in the field of data protection.

  • South West Healthy Labour Market Review

    Williams M, Tackey N D | May 2004 | South West Regional Employment Forum

    The research was produced for the South West Regional Employment Forum. It presents the findings of an analysis of the health of the South West labour market on a range of labour market indicators.