Professor Rob Wilson
Deputy Director, Institute for Employment Research
University of Warwick
Professor Rob Wilson is leading on the Beyond Current Horizons research challenge ‘Work and employment’.
Rob is Deputy Director of the Institute for Employment Research at the University of Warwick in the UK. He leads the Institute’s labour assessment and market forecasting work. He has also researched and published on many other aspects of labour market behaviour, including the changing patterns of demand for and the supply of skills at national and international levels.
Rob has played a leading role in developing quantitative approaches to anticipating changing skills needs at a national and international level. As well as producing ‘Working Futures’ for the LSC/SSDA, he has led the Cedefop Skillsnet project ‘Medium-term forecasts of occupational skill needs in Europe’. This, for the first time, has produced a consistent and comprehensive assessment of employment prospects for the whole of Europe. It is currently being extended to focus on the supply of skills.
He has written extensively on these and related topics, including books on ‘Employment Forecasting in the Construction Industry’; ‘The National Health Service and the Labour Market’; ‘Technical Change: The Role of Scientists and Engineers’; and ‘Research and Development Statistics’.
Amongst his professional responsibilities, Rob has been a member of the Medical Workforce Standing Advisory Committee and the Skills Task Force Research Group. He is currently a member of the Migration Advisory Committee set up to advise Home Office ministers about whether there are skill shortages that can be sensibly filled by the use of inward migrants to the UK.
