Projects and case studies

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  • The impact of STEMNET’s programmes on young people’s employability skills

    This research explored whether and how STEMNET’s STEM Ambassadors Programme and STEM Clubs Programme had impacted on young people's employability skills.The research involved interviews with national stakeholders, STEMNET Contract Holders and...

  • Evaluation of the Carers' Employment Pilot: supporting carers to remain in employment

    IES was commissioned by the Social Care Institute for Excellence to evaluate a two-year pilot programme, which focused on testing and finding out 'what works' to support carers to remain in employment and economically active. Nine English local...

  • Precarious employment: patterns, trends and policy strategies in Europe

    IES worked with IZA and IDEA Consult to produce a study on precarious work in the EU for the Employment Committee of the European Parliament.The study included a literature review of the extent and trends relating to different forms of precarious...

  • Research into tackling unemployment among disadvantaged young people

    This research for Centrepoint sought to understand what impact the government’s proposed measures to tackle youth unemployment would have on some of the most disadvantaged young people, particularly homeless young people.The research involved...

  • Mindfulness in support of organisational change

    IES, in partnership with Cranfield University, was commissioned by a government department to conduct a systematic review of industry best practice on workplace mindfulness-based applications.The review considered the potential of mindfulness...

  • Knowledge Sharing on Mindfulness

    Following the success of the IES briefing event on Mindfulness at Work early in 2015 and the demand for more on this topic, IES is at the early planning stage of setting up webinars and invitation-only events for organisational leads and experts...

  • Mindfulness Training and Coaching

    IES are working with a large public sector employer to design, implement and evaluate a mindfulness training programme to promote resilience and retention. To discuss how the principles of mindfulness could be applied and bring improvements to...

  • Examining the effect of employment and social indicators

    IES will complete a short country profile for the UK and a very short briefing for Greece as part of a study led by the Istituto per la ricerca sociale (IRS) examining the effect of employment and social indicators in the 2014 and 2015 European...

  • Developing your reward strategy: issues, challenges and solutions

    Duncan Brown from IES was commissioned to help run a two-day reward strategy masterclass for senior HR and reward professionals working in universities and colleges. The masterclass focused on how to develop reward strategy,...

  • What works in reducing pay gaps?

    This project comprised a literature review on the effectiveness of interventions to close the gender, ethnicity and disability pay gaps plus the design and facilitation of three workshops with employers and stakeholders to identify key...