Projects and case studies

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  • YFF Youth Employment Toolkit 2.0

    IES with Centre for Evidence and Implementation (CEI) and Monash University are leading evidence syntheses for Youth Futures to feed into the development of a second edition of the Youth Employment Toolkit. The Toolkit will continue to support...

  • App for Social Action evaluation

    Apps for Good have commissioned the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) to evaluate the App for Social Action course. The App for Social Action Course is a 7-session course that supports students in creating a community focused, social action...

  • Gatsby Skills Bootcamps - participant roundtables

    Following on from the desk based research and stakeholder interviews, this research aims to gather the views of employers and participants in Skills Bootcamps. For employers, we will explore how they anticipate demand for skills and decide on...

  • Youth policy journeys

    YFF is providing a grant to IES to explore the policies and services that support young people (14-30) on their journey to work and understand how they are tracked. Through desk research, stakeholder interviews and with support from a youth and an...

  • Jobs Plus trial support and evaluation

    IES will be evaluating a trial of the Jobs-Plus initiative, a place-based employment programme to support residents living in social housing.

  • Evidence based DEI Training Workshops

    Line manager training (full day) and one 2 hour online session for Senior Management Team of CIOT.

  • Sutton Trust Impact Analysis

    Data analysis to support the impact evaluation of The Sutton Trust's UK Summer Schools and Pathways to the Professions programmes. The work involves analysis of Sutton Trust applicant data to identify a matched comparator group of unsuccessful...

  • Reviewing the effectiveness of ‘work first’ employment support

    Review of evidence of effectiveness of different approaches to 'work first' activation policies, to try to inform future delivery of UK employment services. Project will comprise a rapid review of evaluations of ‘work first’ interventions,...

  • Career pathway tracking of British Academy early-career award alumni

    IES is supporting CRAC with the creation of a career tracking survey for recipients of the British Academy's early career grants: Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDF) scheme and the British Academy Rising Star Engagement Awards (BARSEAs). The project...

  • OIAHE Employee Engagement Survey

    This is the fifth employee engagement that IES has managed on behalf of the OIAHE, previous surveys being in 2012, 2014, 2017 and 2020. This version will include previous questions, along with new sections containing hybrid working and EDI...