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