Papers
Keyword: employment
The importance of place
This paper has been prepared as part of the Review paper series for the Working and Employment Challenge of the Beyond Current Horizons programme of work on the... Read more »
TOP KEYWORDS: employment, geography, work, education, economy, labour
Summative report: The future of work and implications for education
The author is grateful to the Department of Children Families and Schools and to Futurelab in Bristol for their support of the Beyond Current Horizons (BCH)... Read more »
TOP KEYWORDS: work, employment, education, technology, society
In search of leadership
This paper tries to do two things: • Firstly, explore what we know about what leadership is and how that view has shifted over time • And secondly to understand how management... Read more »
TOP KEYWORDS: leadership, employment, work, workforce
Learning to work in the creative and cultural sector: new spaces, pedagogies and expertise
The paper questions the link that policymakers assume exists between qualifications and access to employment in the creative and cultural (C&C) sector. It (i) identifies how labour market... Read more »
TOP KEYWORDS: employment, creativity, skills, education, knowledge, industry, culture, politics
Information and communication technology, work and employment
The paper attempts to lay out the key ways in which ICT pervades the world of work, and then explores how future developments might be expected to continue... Read more »
TOP KEYWORDS: IT, technology, work, employment, enabling technology
The meaning of work
The purpose of this paper is to examine the notion of meaning as it relates to working life, with a view to extrapolating some implications for thinking about... Read more »
TOP KEYWORDS: economics, work, employment, education, friendship
Careers guidance, identity and development
Equipping individuals with the skills and understanding required to make appropriate career transitions, as well as supporting them on their journeys throughout life, are critical not only for... Read more »
TOP KEYWORDS: work, careers, employment, society, deprivation, Lifelong Learning
Labour market structures and trends, the future of work and the implications for initial E&T
Does the veracity of trends matter? Are there not circumstances where the analysis is wrong, the trend a meaningless fake, but which is nevertheless a useful catalyst... Read more »
TOP KEYWORDS: knowledge, economics, employment, occupations, business, work, technology
Happiness and well-being
1.1 The conventional view of an individual’s well-being, or utility, in standard economic textbooks is that it employs an objective position, based on observable choices made by individuals (see... Read more »
TOP KEYWORDS: happiness, well-being, employment, work
Integrating personal learning and working environments
This review paper is part of a series of papers commissioned by the Institute for Employment Research at the University of Warwick under the title of 'Beyond Current... Read more »
TOP KEYWORDS: personal learning, work, education institutions, employment, industry
Future horizons for work-life balance
Work-life balance can be defined from a legislative point of view drawing upon statutes and case law, and from an economic perspective where individuals make trade-offs between the... Read more »
TOP KEYWORDS: work, economics, employment, home, childcare, lifestyle
Detaching work from place: charting the progress of change and its implications for learning
In a world of hyperbole and exaggeration, nothing seems to excite journalists and headline writers more than the idea that working for eight hours a day in a... Read more »
TOP KEYWORDS: work, employment, Internet, technology, business
Families, care and work: changes and challenges
British society is ageing, with people aged 80 years and over being the most rapidly growing age group. Between 1981 and 2007 their numbers nearly doubled (1.57 million... Read more »
TOP KEYWORDS: ageing, employment, workforce, migration, care, welfare
Review of future of paid and unpaid work, informal work, homeworking, the place of work in the family (women single parents, workless households), benefits, work attitudes motivation and obligation
Projecting trends into the future, or even just discussing them, is fraught with issues and problems. All too often predictions based on a particular single topic turn out... Read more »
TOP KEYWORDS: employment, work, home, family, women, benefits
Ethnicity and Social Organisation: Changes and Challenges
With the overall British population rapidly ageing, there is a growing realization of the important role that both first and second generation ethnic minorities can play in demographic... Read more »
TOP KEYWORDS: ethnicity, society, community, demography, population, migration, ageing, employment, family
