Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing at pace. In its wake the world of work is being transformed. With the emergence of an AI application such as Chat-GPT, jobs previously thought immune to automation now appear to be at risk. Or are they?

Read more in the blog published on the LMI website.

At the end of October Dr Emily Erickson and Prof. Chris Warhurst of IER presented a report on the business case for more good jobs to the Board of the Northern Ireland Labour Relations Agency. The focus was on the links between good jobs on the one hand and, on the other hand, innovation, productivity and employee wellbeing within firms. Based on the findings, the report makes several recommendations for enhancing policy in Northern Ireland on good jobs.

The Buying Social Justice project, which comprises Prof Tessa Wright, Prof Hazel Conley, Dr Joyce Mamode and IER’s Dr Katharina Sarter, launched its toolkit for practitioners on including equality and diversity objectives within public procurement at a well-attended online event on 19 October 2023. At the event, the project team presented key findings from the two-year research project, which have fed into the guidance and good practice examples in the toolkit.

The recording of the session is now available on the project website. The equality and diversity toolkit is available for download from this project website.

A report published by the Department for Education, and led by IER's Peter EliasLink opens in a new window, with Andy Dickerson (University of Sheffield) and Neil Bachelor (Omnifolio C.I.C.), presents evidence on the need for a skills classification for the UK, and plans for the development and maintenance of such a classification.

IER’s Peter Dickinson was part of a team of experts that presented scenarios for green jobs and skills at a workshop on the "Futures of Green Skills and Jobs Activities: Scenarios and R&I Policy Implications."