Projects and case studies
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Understanding mature entrants’ transitions to postgraduate study
This study consolidated and improved the information base on mature postgraduate students in order to understand:their profile and participationtheir motivations to studytheir pre-entry activities (in the years between undergraduate study and...
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Review and synthesis of the regulations, cultures and behaviours evidence underlying compliance with food safety regulations
This research project centred on psychosocial factors underlying compliance with (and enforcement of) food safety regulations, with an emphasis on small food business operators. The aims were:to pool together existing evidence the FSA possessed on...
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Reducing the occupational sickness absence rate for an NHS Trust
IES advised Mersey Care on how it might reduce its absence levels in its high security unit.Mersey Care NHS Trust wished to review its occupational sickness rate to examine the causes of absence and potential ways of reducing it. IES was asked to...
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The social dimension of intra-EU mobility: Impact on public services in the UK
This project for Eurofound was one of nine country case studies looking to document the impact of intra-EU mobility on staffing, budgets, demand and use of public services in receiving countries, from the perspectives of both the mobile EU...
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Study on Area F of the Beijing Platform for Action - 'Women and the Economy'
IES was sub-contracted to act as a national expert for this study led by the Istituto per la ricerca sociale for the European Institute for Gender Equality.The EU-wide study focused on part-time employment, the full-time equivalent employment rate...
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Wage bargaining regimes and pay outcomes study
A study on wage bargaining schemes and pay outcomes for Eurofound with two elements: A summarising framework of the theory of the institutions involved in wage bargaining systems and more widely, social institutions and economic policy regimes,...
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Understanding employers’ graduate recruitment practices
The main aim of this research for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) was to provide evidence on the approach to graduate recruitment undertaken by employers and how this has evolved in recent years.The study explored:patterns...
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Employer Investment Fund (EIF) and Growth Investment Fund (GIF) Programme Level Evaluation
IES together with Ipsos Mori was appointed to undertake an impact and process evaluation of the Employer Investment Fund and Growth Investment Fund by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills. These funds provided time-limited subsidies...
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Evaluation of the Apprenticeship Trailblazers
The Apprenticeship Trailblazers were introduced as a means of addressing recommendations from the Richard Review (2012), that employers are ‘best placed to judge the quality and relevance of training and demand the highest possible standards...
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Provision of an online survey for EU-OSHA agency stakeholders
IES has been commissioned to carry out an online survey among the subscribers to OSHmail (around 50,000 e-mail addresses). The survey will be carried in all official EU languages plus Icelandic and Norwegian. The survey will provide feedback on...