Projects and case studies
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The gender employment gap: challenges and solutions
IES, together with IRS in Bologna, Italy, was commissioned to undertake a study on the effectiveness of policy measures aimed at supporting and encouraging the participation of women in the labour market in six EU Member States: Denmark, Finland,...
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Evaluation of the Fit for Work service
In 2015 the DWP launched the Fit for Work service to provide occupational health assessment and health and work advice to employees, employers and GPs in order to help employees return to or stay in work after a long-term (over four-week...
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Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER)
From 2015 to 2017, IES was part of a consortium of four partner institutions, funded by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), delivering a multi-year programme on vocational education in the UK. The aim of the Centre for...
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Evidence on employment practice for the Teachers’ Longer Working Review
This project aimed to provide information to the teachers' Working Longer Review - a tripartite review between the Department for Education, teaching unions and their employers - so that it had the necessary contextual evidence to...
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Evaluation of Learning and Development in BIS
The Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) commissioned a project to pilot a strategic approach to evaluating the outcomes of learning and development in BIS and assess how far such an approach could be more widely applied to other...
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Expert workshop on the use of O*NET occupational database resource in the UK
The Gatsby Foundation has given the Institute a grant to run a workshop to explore, understand and propose how to maximise the benefits that could to be obtained from using the O*NET occupational database resource to address UK...
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Research on the 2014 European Directive on the Enforcement of the Posted Workers Directive
IES has been commissioned by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to carry out qualitative research to help the government assess the likely impact of the 2014 European Directive on the Enforcement of the Posted Workers on...
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Improving the HR and OD capability in shared councils, for the Local Government Association
At the time of this project 43 district councils in England shared a chief executive with one or more other councils, and displayed various levels of service integration. Such activity is vital to delivering the government's aims of greater...
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Research into the ESA Claimant Trials
IES was commissioned, with SPRU at the University of York, to lead qualitative research into ESA claimants' experience of three new trials designed to move participants closer to the labour market – Voluntary Early Intervention (VEI),...
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Enhancing everyday working life through meaningfulness initiatives in the workplace
This study, led by Brighton Business School (University of Brighton), will pilot a short personal development programme with 20 to 25 employees in each participating organisation to find out if meaningfulness improves engagement, performance and...