Harry Fox
BA
Research Officer
harry.fox@employment-studies.co.uk
Harry joined IES as a Research Officer in June 2024. His main interests include employability, workforce development, skills provision, and apprenticeship participation. Harry has almost seven years’ experience working on and managing research programmes related to employment and skills within a range of independent research organisations including BMG Research and Learning and Work Institute.
Harry has a wide range of qualitative and quantitative skills to explore these issues, with particular experience around skills and workforce development, and employability. He is highly experienced in arranging, conducting and analysing qualitative interviews with a wide range of interviewees, including large-scale evaluations to explore how employability and training programmes have been run, how these work with partners and stakeholders, and the impact the programmes have had on participants.
Harry has also conducted focus groups, including sessions with young people (aged 16-18), jobseekers, and training participants. Harry has also led evidence reviews, particularly around the issues of green skills, quality jobs, and increasing employer investment in skills. He has also analysed management information to complement wider research findings, including a pioneering programme aimed at supporting individuals affected by the pandemic to reskill and change career. He has led and conducted theory-based and impact evaluations, public perception pieces, policy reviews, as well as more general research and insights projects.
At IES, Harry is working on a range of programmes related to skills development and participation in training.
Education
| 2015 | University of Leicester | BA History and Politics (First Class Honours) |
Career
| 2024 | Research Officer | Institute for Employment Studies |
| 2023 | Senior Consultant | York Consulting LLP |
| 2021-2023 | Researcher | Learning and Work Institute |
| 2020-2021 | Senior Research Executive | BMG Research |
| 2018-2020 | Research Executive | BMG Research |
| 2016-2017 | Research Executive | Acuigen |
Publications
Evaluation of In-Work Support Service, Learning and Work Institute, March 2023, Available at https://www.gov.wales/sites/default/files/statistics-and-research/2023-0...
Skills Accelerator Pilot evaluation, IFF Research and Learning and Work Institute, July 2023, Available at: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/650860ad22a783000d43e7cc/...
Good Jobs in Scotland, Ahmed J, Egglestone C, Fox H, Clayton N, Cabral D, Learning and Work Institute, January 2022, Available at: https://povertyinequality.scot/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Poverty-Inequality-Commission-Good-jobs-in-Scotland-report.pdf