IER Publications 2026

Book Chapters

• Brown, A., Barnes, S.-A., Bimrose, J., Kettunen, J. and Vuorinen, R. (2026). New Perspectives on Policy Learning in Career Guidance through Collaborative Partnerships and Networks. In: Barabasch, A., Bohlinger, S. and Wolf, S. (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Policy Transfer in Vocational Education and Beyond. Palgrave Macmillan Cham.
• Nickson, D. and Warhurst, C. (2026). Beauty and Work: Continuity and Change in the Analysis of Aesthetic Labour. Cham: Springer. Giselinde Kuipers and Outi Sarpila (eds) Handbook of Beauty and Inequality, pp.309-322.
• McGuinness, S., Staffa, E., Lee, S., Kelly, L., & Redmond, P. (2026). Measuring potential skill shortages in Europe. In K. Pouliakas & G. Santangelo (Eds.), Human-centred digital transitions and skill mismatches in European workplaces (Cedefop working paper No. 28; pp. 104–122). Publications Office of the European Union.

Journals

• McGuinness, S., Staffa, E., Kelly, L., Redmond, P. and Lee, S. (2026). Developing a new European indicator of potential skill shortages. Applied Economics.
• Green, F., Henseke, G., Lee, S. and Yong, A. (2026). Diluting exclusivity? The prevalence and distribution of bursaries and scholarships for Britain's private schools. British Journal of Sociology of Education.
• Harris, J. (2026). Digital platforms, decent work and developing countries. Development in Practice.
• Hartmann, E., and Lee, S. (2026). Exporting status differences? The stratification of British transnational higher education Globalisation, Societies, and Education Location and Publish.
• Knox, A., Lee, S., Warhurst, C., & Wright, S. (2026). Understanding the relationship between job quality and general health in hospitality: Evidence from Australia. International Journal of Hospitality Management.

Reports

• Anelli, G., Boothman, L., Bosworth, D., Madan, J., Whitehead, M. and Warhurst, C. (2026). Addressing delayed hospital patient discharge: A multilevel analysis of care ecosystem constraints and stroke patient flow. Operationalising the Drivers of Delay: A Multilevel Framework.
• Baldauf, B. and Warhurst, C. (2026). United Kingdom Stock -Taking Report. In Kokkinen et al., GIG-OSH Stock-Taking Report. Regulating Occupational Safety and Health in the Platform Economy. Zenodo. pp. 178-205.
• Larsen, T.P., Sarter, E.K. and Warhurst, C. (2026.) United Kingdom Case Study Report. In: Larsen et al. (2026). GIG-OSH Case Study Report. Regulating the platform economy – recent OSH policy and practice debates and developments. Zenodo. pp. 75-99.
• Larsen, T.P, Sarter, E.K. and Ilsøe, A. (2026). Denmark Stock-Taking Report. In Kokkinen et al., GIG-OSH Stock-Taking Report. Regulating Occupational Safety and Health in the Platform Economy. Zenodo. pp. 26-73.
• Larsen, T., Erickson, E. and Keune, M. (2026). The digital footprints on the building blocks of voice and their implications for contemporary industrial citizenship INDI Working paper 3: A report for the Integrate Dialogue Project.
• Larsen, T., Erickson, E. and Keune, M. (2026). Alternative models of representation and voice: grassroots and institution led initiatives (Chapter 7). INDI Working paper 2: A report for the Integrate Dialogue project in Social dialogue and nonstandard workers: a literature review edited by Maarten Keune. pp76-101.
• Lee, Sangwoo and Hogarth, Terence (2026), Training Intensity in European Firms: Organisational Characteristics and Institutional Contexts. Available at SSRN.

• Lyddon, D. and Bamber, G. (2026) Insights into a ‘Golden Age’ of Industrial Relations. Foreword to an Interview with Sir Peter D. Carr. Historical Studies in Industrial Relations.
• Pustovalova, A., Hayford, M.D., Erickson, E. and Lee, S. (2026). Empirical Analysis Report on the 2026 SkillsPULSE Employer Survey.

Trade press

• Erickson, E. (2026) The Employer Costs of Apprenticeship Training in England, Germany, and Austria: Results from a matched employer study. fe news, 5 January 2026.
• Hughes, D. OBE (2026) A Policy Love Letter to Ministers and Officials: Bold Ambition, But Please Join the Dots. fe news, 17 March 2026.

Policy briefings

• Nusseir, D. (2026). Beyond digital skills training: Translating Arab refugee women’s digital skills for economic inclusion and access to labour markets.
  Policy briefing for Governments and Public Entities.

  Coventry, Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick.

• Nusseir, D. (2026). Got the digital skills, now what? Translating Arab refugee women’s digital skills for economic inclusion and access to labour markets. Policy briefing for NGOs and Practitioners.

  Coventry, Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick.

Conference papers

• Warhurst, C., Taylor, P., Ragnarsdóttir, H., Dix, G. and Boothman, L. (2026) Provocation paper for MSK innovation in the workplace conference, October 2026

Blogs and opinion pieces

• Dix, G., Larsen, T.P. and Warhurst, C. (2026) A new industrial relations framework – galvanising change.

• Erickson, E. (2026) Beyond the first job: Why young people need a skills system that lasts.