IER News & blogs

Today, Prof. Chris Warhurst outlined four challenges for careers practitioners in supporting sustainable employment at the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling (NICEC) conference in Birmingham: advanced automation, the green industrial revolution, the disconnect between skills supply and demand, and unhealthy jobs.

IER's Dr Jamelia Harris has published a new article titled "Digital Platform Work in Developing Countries: Enabling Capabilities or Perpetuating Dependencies?" in the journal Development.

Research on the relationship between new technology and productivity has just been published by The Productivity Institute. The study concluded that management skills (core and technology related) are required to maximise the returns of new technology investments. Those companies that had a strategic approach to technology investments and management development implemented their investments more effectively. Currently, management training in the West Midlands is not configured to support businesses to effectively implement new technology, and companies rely on technology suppliers.

Professor Chris Warhurst is a co-organiser of the Interdisciplinary Conference on Creating Sustainable Work, which will be held on 7-9 May 2025 in Stockholm, Sweden. The organisers are currently inviting suggestions for keynotes, special sessions or streams and abstracts contributing to a discussion on how research can help inform policy to ensure a sustainable future of work.

Co-edited by IER’s Professor Philip Taylor and Dr Catherine Earl (RMIT Vietnam), the new Research Handbook on Inequalities in Later Life critically examines the myriad social and economic inequalities faced by those in later life. Contributors dissect Global North and South examples to support a new approach to studying ageing that moves beyond popular discourses.