Projects and case studies

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  • Survey of recently-qualified veterinary surgeons

    On behalf of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS), IES conducted an online survey of people who have qualified from one of the UK’s seven veterinary schools over the past five years. There was anecdotal evidence that newly-qualified...

  • Enhancing and Embedding Staff Engagement in the NHS: Putting Theory into Practice

    IES partnered with Kent Business School, Warwick Business School and the University of Tilburg to carry out a systematic evidence synthesis of staff engagement in the NHS, on behalf of NIHR. The research project addressed the question: what...

  • The leadership legacy of LSIS

    Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) commissioned IES to produce a legacy report on LSIS’s contribution and achievements in developing and improving leadership in the further education and skills sector. The legacy paper built on...

  • STYLE: Strategic Transitions for Youth Labour in Europe

    The aim of the STYLE project is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the causes of very high unemployment among young people and to assess the effectiveness of labour market policies designed to mitigate this phenomenon.The project includes...

  • The UK labour market story 2013

    IES was commissioned, together with IER and Cambridge Econometrics, to produce an overarching assessment of the UK for the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, in order to understand how effective the UK's skills investment approach was...

  • A review of the National Student Survey (NSS)

    The National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) is working with IES to explore the feasibility of developing a student satisfaction survey aimed at those studying taught postgraduate courses. These important students currently lie outside the...

  • Impact of training on the unemployed

    While the literature on the returns from education is very extensive, there is a gap in the evidence for returns to training, specifically formal educational achievement – such as NVQ-Levels or specific vocational qualifications (including...

  • Evidence review of the effect of workplace policies and management practices on employees' health and wellbeing

    The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) commissioned IES, in partnership with the Work Foundation and Lancaster University to conduct a review of the evidence on the effect of workplace policies and management practices on...

  • Provision of scheduled and on-request reporting services to Eurofound

    An international consortium led by IES has been awarded a four-year contract (2014-2018) to provide EU-level information to Eurofound on industrial relations, working conditions and management of change. The information will appear on Eurofound's...

  • Research to inform GP referral to the health and work assessment and advisory service

    The aim of this study for the DWP was to estimate the likely proportion/numbers of eligible employees that GPs would refer to the proposed health and work assessment and advisory service (HWAAS).IES teamed up with researchers from the University...