The Third Midlands Youth Labour Market Forum, will be held on Wednesday 23^rd November 2016 at College Court , the University of Leicester’s leading conference venue (http://collegecourt.co.uk/)  

The forum was developed to engage with all those concerned with young people's transitions from education to employment, as part of the ESRC funded Paths2Work research Project, 'Precarious Pathways into Employment for Young People?'.

Melanie Simms, Professor of Work and Employment at The University of leicester School of Managment, is hosting the event this year; for further details and registration please see https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/midlands-youth-labour-market-forum-tickets-27144596218 

Please see the draft event programme for further details.

We hope thay you will be able to attend what promises to be a very exciting event now that we have entered the final year of the research project and have a great deal of data to discuss with you.

If you have any queries, please contact Dr Arlene Robertson (A.Robertson.2@warwick.ac.uk or t: +44(0) 24 7652 2328).

A new blog just in our series of Paths2Work Blogging after the elections from Professor Phil Mizen on Young Workers and the Next Parliament. To read the blog, click on the following link:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ier/research/pathways/blogs/

The House of Lords report on Social Mobility (to which Anne Green gave oral evidence, and to which Pathways to Work project team members submitted written evidence) has now been published and can be accessed from the House of Lords Select committee website:

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201516/ldselect/ldsocmob/120/120.pdf 

Oral Evidence given by Professor Anne Green to the House of Lords Select Commitee on Social Mobility

 We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Charoula Tzanakou as Research Fellow on the ESRC-funded Precarious Pathways to Employment of Young People. Dr Tzanakou originally studied for an undergraduate degree in International European Studies at the Athens University of Business and Economics, followed immediately by an MA in European Institutions and Policymaking at Lancaster University. During her time there, she was selected by the European University Association to be a trainee and towards the end of her period of internship in Brussels, was offered a job as Project Officer. She then returned to academia as a PhD student at the Institute, supervised by Professors Kate Purcell and Robert Lindley, comparing the early career experiences of Greek PhD students in Natural Sciences and Engineering who had studied for their doctorates in UK and Greek universities, graduating in April 2012.

Since graduating, she has worked on as a part-time researcher at the Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) Research Centre at the University of Oxford, the IER and, in September 2013, was appointed as Research Fellow to work with Professor Alison Rodger, Professor of Biophysical Chemistry and Director of the MOAC Doctoral Training Centre in the Faculty of Analytical Sciences, as the co-ordinator and full-time researcher of a small ESRC-funded project on the under-representation and low retention of women in academic science careers.

IER and the project team look forward to welcoming Charoula in July.