IER News & blogs
In the seventh of a series of podcasts about our work at the Institute for Employment Research, Pamela Suzanne talks about her doctoral research, which is looking at the work-role transition experience of business professionals. In her research, she focuses on how Argentinean MBA graduates, who are making a career transition and are starting a new role, acquire the required skills, develop new social relations and construct their dynamic professional identities.
Bernard Casey will be making a presentation at the forthcoming 2nd International Conference on Evidence-based Policy in Long-Term Care. The conference will be held at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, UK from 5th to 8th September 2012. Bernard's paper will be on "The development of employment and skills in the social care sector: a comparison of Germany and Japan". The paper draws from work Bernard did for Skills for Care and Development (SfC&D). The conference programme with an abstract of the paper can be downloaded from the .
The University of 桃色视频's competition for the Chancellor's Scholarships Competition for 2013-14 is now open for candidates applying for a PhD starting in 2013-14. If you are an outstanding academic candidate seeking funding for your doctoral studies, visit the page on the Graduate School website for further details. The deadline for applications for the 2013 competition is 11 January 2013.
IER offers a PhD in Employment Research, and welcomes applications from suitably qualified candidates in the social sciences with an interest in undertaking research in issues relating to the labour market. Check our pages for further information, or contact Debbie Ranger (d.a.ranger@warwick.ac.uk).
The Nominet Trust has published a state of the art review undertaken by IER on Employment and the Internet. The report provides a baseline of data around employment and digital technology, mapping emerging employment patterns that may provide opportunities to rethink how we address current levels of unemployment and underemployment.
The report is available to download from the .
The University of Warwaick seeks to appoint an internationally-recognised social science academic with extensive experience in research leadership to succeed the existing Director of IER.
Further details are available on the .
Closing date for applications is 28 August 2012.