Research Themes Overview
Labour market and skills intelligence
- Big data analysis
- Labour market and skills forecasting
- Labour market assessment and classification
- LMI for All
- Real-time labour market analysis
- Skill anticipation and assessment
- Skill foresight
- Skill surveys
- Working Futures
Contact: Terence Hogarth, Jeisson Cardenas-Rubio
Education, training and skills
- Apprenticeships and work-based learning
- FutureTrack
- Graduate labour market
- Higher Education
- Lifelong learning
- Vocational Education & Training
Contact: Terence Hogarth, Peter Dickinson
The future of work
- Digitalisation and automation
- Green jobs
- Innovation and work
- New technology and work
- Platform work
- Productivity and performance
Contact: Chris Warhurst, Trine Larsen
Welfare and social inclusion
- Active ageing
- Equal opportunities and workforce diversity
- Evaluation and development of welfare policies
- Gender and social equality
- Migration and social mobility
- Unemployment and worklessness
- Work and poverty
- Youth labour market
Contact: Philip Taylor, Gaby Atfield
Careers guidance, development and transitions
- Career guidance across the life course
- Career practitioner skills and competences
- Careers labour market information: LMI for All
- Changing careers and identities
- Labour market transitions
- Lifelong guidance policy and practice
- Public Employment Service programmes
Contact: Beate Baldauf, Philip Taylor
Job quality; fair, decent & good work
- Improving job quality
- Making bad jobs better
- Measuring job quality
- Trends in job quality
- Working conditions
Contact: Chris Warhurst, Emily Erickson
Employment practices
- Flexible working practices
- Pay
- Recruitment and retention
- Self-employment
- Wellbeing and mental health
- Working from home
- Working time
- Work-life balance
Contact: Trine Larsen, Philip Taylor
Regional and sector analysis
- Local labour markets
- Local skills strategy
- Regional economic development
- Sectoral employment
Contact: David Owen, Peter Dickinson