IER News & blogs
Going to work in others’ homes: older women in the caregiving workforce
In this book chapter Philip Taylor and co-authors Phillippa Carnemolla and Jane Bringolf consider issues of aged care work that is carried out in people's homes and viewed as workplaces.
LMI for All Webinar Series: Predicting Future Skill Needs
Bookings are now open for the next webinar on Predicting Future Skill Needs. Tickets for the event on 7 May, 10-11.30 am are available via Eventbrite.
Towards a standard measure of job quality for European industry
In March Chris Warhurst of IER met with IndustriAll in Brussels to discuss job quality. IndustriALL is the global union federation for the mining, energy and manufacturing sectors and IndustriAll Europe has a Good Jobs campaign ahead of the European elections in June. The campaign champions having a proactive European industrial plan to create good industrial jobs. The discussion centred on initiatives within the UK to measure and report job quality nationally.
First EUTOPIA PhD graduate
Rebeka Balogh became IER’s first EUTOPIA graduate.
EUTOPIA is a pan European partnership of ten universities focused on collaborative research. It funded a joint PhD studentship between IER and Interface Demography (ID) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).
As Biden faces questions about his age, researchers weigh in on working in your 80s
US media outlet CNBC interviewed Professor Philip Taylor about issues of ageing and work during intense scrutiny of the prospect of an octogenarian President in the White House. Find out more about what he said on the CNBC website.