Projects and case studies
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Health and wellbeing of older workers
The CIPD commissioned IES to conduct research into how employers could retain older workers by focusing on their health and wellbeing and being flexible about their caring commitments, such as responsibilities for elderly parents.The research...
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Discriminatory recruitment practices in employment
IES, along with IFF Research and COMPAS, was commissioned by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to carry out research designed to improve understanding of employer behaviour and practices when recruiting British and migrant workers...
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Getting the most out of human resource management: How can HR practices lead to better employee performance and wellbeing?
IES is collaborating with the University of Brighton to conduct some original research into the links between HR practices and employee performance and well-being.The research study will be led by Dr Luke Fletcher of Brighton Business...
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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...