Projects and case studies

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  • Managing older workers seminars

    IES and Eversheds ran a series of seminars for employers on managing older workers, covering pensions, age discrimination, flexible working and workplace adjustments.

  • Health coaching as a social movement: Chapters for a toolkit

    For Health Education East of England, IES contributed to an online toolkit to support the spread of health coaching as a social movement.Using an evidence-based model of embedding and sustaining change within organisations, we described what needs...

  • Estimating the impact of cycling to work

    The Cycle to Work scheme is a salary sacrifice employee benefit that encourages greater numbers of people to commute to work by bicycle.The main providers of the scheme commissioned IES to estimate the economic benefits of the scheme for employers...

  • How to Create an Effective Approach to Employee Financial Wellbeing

    This research project for the CIPD focused on the role of employers in shaping good employee decisions to improve financial wellbeing.The aim of the research was to help employers build the business case for financial wellbeing and develop a...

  • THRIVE: Tackling health inequalities through extending working lives

    In Europe and Canada, policymakers are facing particular challenges related to rising life expectancy, a shift in the age profile of the population, and the consequent increase in the prevalence of chronic illness and disability. But these...

  • Review of Mind's Workplace Wellbeing Index diagnostic tool

    IES provided an independent, external review and guidance during the development and pilot stage of Mind's new Workplace Wellbeing Index diagnostic tool.The work involved a review of Mind's literature base along with ongoing, iterative reviews and...

  • Evaluation of Mind's Workplace Wellbeing Index

    IES will conduct a mixed method study to evaluate Mind's new Wellbeing Index which aims to benchmark employers with respect to current wellbeing practices and policies and to signal areas for improvement.Mind will provide a selection of employers...

  • Mindfulness for strategic change readiness

    Using a randomised controlled trial (RCT) this research project will identify performance and resilience outcomes at both individual and team levels following participation in a mindfulness programme for teams.This is an IES-led research project...

  • Fulfilling Work for Older Workers

    This project comprised a literature review and synthesis on what older workers consider to be 'fulfilling work', including what they value, why those factors are important, how (if at all) views differ from the rest of the working age population...

  • Defining vulnerable/disadvantaged groups

    This project for Equality and Human Rights Commission sets out to explore what is meant by a 'vulnerable group' and how it can be defined in relation to equality and human rights monitoring so that it is a meaningful concept.