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Our December 2025 Newsletter is now available here: Read more here: mailchi.mp/62d68b6e5cc8/s…

We are hiring a Research Fellow! Apply by February 2026 at 11:55pm (UK time). Read more about the role at the University of Warwick website: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-GB/…

IER: still doing a good job in 2025 It’s been a good year for good jobs policy IER University of Warwick was established 45 years ago with funding from the UK Government and what is now the European Commission. Its task then was to provide labour market forecasts to support policymaking. Although government emphasis on skills has remained constant, government interest in employment policy more broadly has waxed and waned over the years. However, 2025 will be remembered as the year that employment and labour markets become explicit, central tenets again in UK Government policy.  Read more here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ier/ne…

📣We are hiring! More details are available here: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre-e… #wearehiring #resreachfellow #employmentresearch

As part of the ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council Festival of Social Sciences, a panel of experts, including IER’s Prof Gill Dix, Dr Emily Erickson, Prof Trine Pernille Larsen and Dr Dr. E. Katharina Sarter Sarter, discussed the future of work.  Read more here: lnkd.in/gfW4nJwt #FutureOfWork #EmploymentPolicy #WorkplaceInnovation #DigitalTransformation #InclusiveGrowth

🌐 APPG on the Future of Work: AI, Good Jobs & Regional Growth Professor Chris Warhurst, Director of IER, was invited to speak at the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on the Future of Work 📌 Read more: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ier/ne… #FutureOfWork #AI #GoodJobs #RegionalGrowth #InclusiveEconomy warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ier/ne…

Measuring 'Bad Jobs' Through Worker Wellbeing: New Evidence from South Korea Read more here: lnkd.in/dKqJxaP

Our November 2025 Newsletter is now available here: mailchi.mp/653ad8d3939f/s…

🎤 IER researcher on the Economics of Trust! IER's Dr Jamelia Harris was an invited panellist for the Institute of Chartered Accountant's of Trinidad and Tobago's 16th annual conference. The conference was held on November 20th and 21st in Trinidad and Tobago. Dr Harris contributed to the panel "The Economics of Trust", where she highlighted the importance of trust in various segments of the economy, including the labour market. Dr Harris emphasised the negative impacts on the labour market if trust breaks down between employers and jobseekers - for example, if trust is lost in the credibility of job advertisements or if certificates of qualifications no longer signal higher levels of human capital. Read more here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ier/ne…

👉Join us for an online event about skills policy and the future of work – 2 December, 2:30-3:00 In conversation with Chris Warhurst, the author of a new book, Skills Policy in Britain and the Future Of Work, Tom Bewick, will explain his motivation for writing this study; what he has learnt from a 30-year career as both a policy maker and practitioner in post compulsory education and training; and what specific skills policy does he believe countries should adopt in pursuing new approaches to human capital. Read more and register here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ier/ne…

🚨 New Research at IER! Discover the ORIGAMI Project – exploring innovative approaches to employment & labour market research. 🔗 Learn more: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ier/re… #IERResearch #FutureOfWork #LabourMarket #Innovation

🌍 Ageing Workforce & Sustainable Care at GSA 2025 Professor Philip Taylor from Warwick’s Institute for Employment Research represented the UK at the Gerontological Society of America Annual Scientific Meeting in Boston. Read more here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ier/ne… #AgeingWorkforce #FutureOfCare #JobQuality #EmploymentResearch #SocialCareInnovation

🌍 Green Transition & the Future of Work At the @CIPD Annual Conference in Manchester, Peter Dickinson from @WarwickIER shared key insights on how the green transition is reshaping jobs and skills. Read more here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ier/ne… #GreenTransition #FutureOfWork #EmploymentResearch

NHS Productivity Commission: call for evidence | @HealthFdn health.org.uk/funding-and-pa…

It’s #StressAwarenessWeek. Work-related stress is a leading cause of ill health, and employers have a legal duty to address it — just like any other workplace risk. Take action today: workright.campaign.gov.uk/working-minds/…

#StressAwarenessWeek may be ending, but preventing work-related stress shouldn’t. Protect your people and your business — download HSE’s Working Minds support & resources poster and keep the conversation going: workright.campaign.gov.uk/wp-content/upl…

Our October 2025 Newsletter is now available here: mailchi.mp/bef62dbed6d6/s…

👉Research presentation in Barbados! 📊 IER's Dr Jamelia Harris, together with Dexnell Peter's of the University of the West Indies, Mona campus, presented some of the main ideas and early findings from the research project "Colonial Legacies and the Labour Market in the English-speaking Caribbean." The seminar was hosted by the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill campus, and was live-streamed regionally. Read more here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ier/ne…