Skills and Employment Survey 2017
Lead Research Organisation:
Cardiff University
Department Name: Sch of Social Sciences
Abstract
Britain has a long tradition of investing in major research infrastructure projects about working life. These produce results of great value to both the research and policy-making communities, and provide high quality, individual-level surveys for secondary analyses. In fact, the SES series provides us with our most important source of information on changes in the work experiences of British workers over time. These changes include: the skills of jobs require; the way work is organised; opportunities for skill and career development; and perceptions of different types of insecurity. The series has also been our best source of evidence of long-term trends in work motivation, organisational commitment, job satisfaction and work stress. It has put Britain in the leading group of European countries in terms of the quality of data on these issues along with Sweden, Finland, France and Germany. These countries are continuing to invest in data collection exercises similar to SES. Other countries such as Singapore, New Zealand and the Netherlands are also starting to invest in this area, often drawing heavily on the content and methods of data collection pioneered by SES. This project will help to maintain Britain's leading position in the field as well as trace the connections the quality of work has with employee-driven innovation and productivity enhancement initiatives.
The survey will aim to collect data on all the main features of job quality by interviewing a stratified random sample of workers aged 20-65 in Britain. These interviews will be carried out in 2017 on a face-to-face in people's home and will last around 60 minutes. The issues covered will include, inter alia: the skills of the job; working time; work effort; promotion prospects; job security; the ability to use initiative; the physical risks and demands of the job; relationships with superiors and others; satisfaction; and pay. At the launch of each data collection round, we have made judicious reductions of previous questionnaire batteries in order to make interview space for 'new' questions designed to address issues of particular academic and policy relevance. In the 2017, new survey questions will be used in order to shed light on: how the productivity of workers and the capacity for greater workplace innovation might be enhanced; the extent to which organisational justice can reduce anxiety and boost worker participation in decision-making; and what factors prompt older workers to continue in or retire from their current jobs, hence revealing what needs to be done to keep them in work longer.
In specific terms, the project will:
i. Chart the level and distribution of, and changes to, some of the key drivers of productivity such as work organisation, job-related well-being, the skills requirements of jobs, and the incidence, volume and quality of training and learning.
ii. Describe and analyse the level and distribution of key aspects of job quality in 2017 - such as employee involvement, work intensity, insecurity and well-being at work - and make comparisons with earlier data points in the series.
iii. Use the data to develop distinctive, original and substantive contributions to scholarship surrounding job quality and job skill, and the connections these aspects of work have with productivity and innovation.
iv. Make the data available and provide the necessary documentary material to allow further analyses by academic and policy-based researchers in the field of skills and job quality.
The survey will aim to collect data on all the main features of job quality by interviewing a stratified random sample of workers aged 20-65 in Britain. These interviews will be carried out in 2017 on a face-to-face in people's home and will last around 60 minutes. The issues covered will include, inter alia: the skills of the job; working time; work effort; promotion prospects; job security; the ability to use initiative; the physical risks and demands of the job; relationships with superiors and others; satisfaction; and pay. At the launch of each data collection round, we have made judicious reductions of previous questionnaire batteries in order to make interview space for 'new' questions designed to address issues of particular academic and policy relevance. In the 2017, new survey questions will be used in order to shed light on: how the productivity of workers and the capacity for greater workplace innovation might be enhanced; the extent to which organisational justice can reduce anxiety and boost worker participation in decision-making; and what factors prompt older workers to continue in or retire from their current jobs, hence revealing what needs to be done to keep them in work longer.
In specific terms, the project will:
i. Chart the level and distribution of, and changes to, some of the key drivers of productivity such as work organisation, job-related well-being, the skills requirements of jobs, and the incidence, volume and quality of training and learning.
ii. Describe and analyse the level and distribution of key aspects of job quality in 2017 - such as employee involvement, work intensity, insecurity and well-being at work - and make comparisons with earlier data points in the series.
iii. Use the data to develop distinctive, original and substantive contributions to scholarship surrounding job quality and job skill, and the connections these aspects of work have with productivity and innovation.
iv. Make the data available and provide the necessary documentary material to allow further analyses by academic and policy-based researchers in the field of skills and job quality.
Planned Impact
The Skills and Employment Survey series is a crucial part of social science research infrastructure. Funding the 2017 survey will allow enable this to continue. Its value to the academic community is evidenced by: (1) the number of researchers who have downloaded the data for secondary analysis - nearly 1,200 downloads have been recorded and the series has 760 registered users, 231 of whom have used the 2012 survey (figures supplied by the UK Data Service, June 2016); and (2) the number of published outputs known to have been produced - the count for the last four surveys currently stands at 148. In addition, the series has pioneered new ways of collecting survey data on skills, learning and the quality of work. These tools have been copied internationally - in Singapore, the Netherlands and New Zealand - and have formed the basis for a module in the OECD's 2012 Survey of Adult Skills. The new instruments incorporated into the 2017 survey on productivity and employee-driven innovation, organisational justice and the employment decisions of older workers may have similar international appeal.
We anticipate that the findings of the 2017 survey will also shape the policy debate. Previous research findings from the series have shed new light on the use of skills in British workplaces, the changing quality of work in Britain, and role played by employee engagement in making working life better and laying the foundations for improvements in performance. The results have been used by a number of organisations such as the UKCES, the pay review bodies, HESA, the devolved administrations, the political parties, the Smith Institute and the Skills Commission. In addition, there are 63 registered users of the data who work for central and local government, non-governmental organisations or not-for-profit entities.
The policy relevance and impact of the data series can only increase as the series is extended. In keeping with the policy-relevant nature of the proposal, we will maximise the impact of the research by targeting a range of outlets and venues to publicise the findings of the survey. This will ensure that the project meets the ESRC's goal of excellence with impact and expand on the already large community of 760 registered users of the data series (see Pathways to Impact section).
The project's outputs will include: a fully documented dataset; a series of first findings reports similar to those for SES2012, tracking trends in skills, job quality and well-being; at least three working papers (subsequently leading to refereed journal articles); summaries of the survey findings in practitioner outlets; and at least two launch events (there may be others depending on boost financing). Funding SES2017 will also provide continuity with and build on previous surveys in the series, provide a valuable and unique addition to the social science data resource infrastructure, and set a benchmark against which future surveys can compare.
We anticipate that the findings of the 2017 survey will also shape the policy debate. Previous research findings from the series have shed new light on the use of skills in British workplaces, the changing quality of work in Britain, and role played by employee engagement in making working life better and laying the foundations for improvements in performance. The results have been used by a number of organisations such as the UKCES, the pay review bodies, HESA, the devolved administrations, the political parties, the Smith Institute and the Skills Commission. In addition, there are 63 registered users of the data who work for central and local government, non-governmental organisations or not-for-profit entities.
The policy relevance and impact of the data series can only increase as the series is extended. In keeping with the policy-relevant nature of the proposal, we will maximise the impact of the research by targeting a range of outlets and venues to publicise the findings of the survey. This will ensure that the project meets the ESRC's goal of excellence with impact and expand on the already large community of 760 registered users of the data series (see Pathways to Impact section).
The project's outputs will include: a fully documented dataset; a series of first findings reports similar to those for SES2012, tracking trends in skills, job quality and well-being; at least three working papers (subsequently leading to refereed journal articles); summaries of the survey findings in practitioner outlets; and at least two launch events (there may be others depending on boost financing). Funding SES2017 will also provide continuity with and build on previous surveys in the series, provide a valuable and unique addition to the social science data resource infrastructure, and set a benchmark against which future surveys can compare.
Publications
Felstead A
(2020)
Getting the Measure of Employee-Driven Innovation and Its Workplace Correlates
in British Journal of Industrial Relations
Felstead A
(2019)
Conceiving, designing and trailing a short-form measure of job quality: a proof-of-concept study
in Industrial Relations Journal
Felstead A
(2020)
Unpredictable times: the extent, characteristics and correlates of insecure hours of work in Britain
in Industrial Relations Journal
Felstead A
(2020)
Are online job quality quizzes of any value? Selecting questions, maximising quiz completions and estimating biases
in Employee Relations: The International Journal
Felstead A
(2020)
Getting The Measure Of Employee-Driven Innovation And Its Workplace Correlates
in British Journal of Industrial Relations
Felstead, A
(2020)
Can Good Work Solve the Productivity Puzzle? Collected Essays
Felstead, A
(2019)
Work in Wales, 2006-2017: evidence from the Skills and Employment Survey
Felstead, A
(2019)
Arolwg Sgiliau a Chyflogaeth: gweithio yng Nghymru, 2006 i 2017
| Description | The results from the Skills and Employment Survey 2017 offer unique insights into how jobs have changed in Britain over the last 30 years (www.cardiff.ac.uk/ses2017). The results show that workers are working harder and have less say, but are less anxious about losing their job or having their job changed in some way. • Almost a half (46%) of workers in 2017 strongly agreed that their job requires them to work very hard compared to just a third (32%) of workers in 1992. School teachers in state schools top the list. A remarkable 92% of teachers strongly agreed that their job requires them to work very hard, up from 82% in 2012. • In the five years since 2012, the proportion who said that they had a great deal influence over what tasks they do fell by three percentage points and there was a five percentage point drop in the influence they had over how do the tasks. • Less than one in ten (9%) workers in Britain in 2017 reported that they had a better than evens chance of losing their job in the next 12 months. This is half the proportion (18%) of workers who made a similar assessment in 2012. The results also show that: • The growth in demand for skills in general has slowed down considerably since the survey series began in the mid-1980s. Since 2012, literacy and numeracy skills, for example, have declined in importance, the trend for higher qualifications on entry has come to a halt and the time spent learning on-the-job and getting training has fallen. • Only a quarter of respondents strongly agreed that their employer treated employees in the organisation fairly. Employees were more likely to consider their organisations fair where they were given significant say over the way they worked, where supervisors provided adequate support in periods of high work pressure and where they felt secure in the jobs. • The results also show that efficiency-enhancing ideas are more frequently offered and acted upon in organisations where employee involvement is high. Such employers allow employees more autonomy to decide how to do their jobs, are more supportive of those they manage, give employees more opportunity to express their views, and carry out appraisals which affect employees' earnings and/or training opportunities. The project has also developed diagnostic tool which allows workers to benchmark their job against those in a similar occupation as well as against the average job in Britain across ten job quality domains using objective measures (www.howgoodismyjob.com). A promotional video outlines the main features of the quiz (https://youtu.be/GG-ffEQnDeE). |
| Exploitation Route | The results have the following policy implications: - The findings suggest that more needs to be done - and can be done - to raise productivity across the whole economy. Greater involvement of workers is the key, but this is where management practices have taken a backward step in recent times with sluggish productivity one of its unwelcome consequences. - the UK government has laid down an ambitious industrial policy to prepare the British economy for a future after Brexit. Its high skill strategy, however, relies on an assumed virtuous circle where an expanded supply of skilled workers will in the long-run result in an upskilling of the economy as a whole. The gathered data here suggests that this assumed connection may not be sufficient to shift the economy alone towards greater skills use. What is needed are longer-term, consistent political strategies that combine a focus on skills supply with some attention to demand side developments to ensure that investments into skills supply are effectively utilised. - There is considerable evidence for the importance of a sense of fairness at work both for employees' well-being and for their work motivation. The survey results reveal considerable differences between occupations and industries in the extent to which employees regard their organisations as fair. Judgements about organisational fairness also vary substantially by sex and age. - The sustained, widespread, work intensification of jobs in Britain is a modern safety and well-being issue, potentially inhibiting the ability of many to flourish at work, and becoming a health risk for those who have low control over how they do their jobs. - The 2017 results confirm the importance of participation for both employee well-being and work motivation. In particular, it has shown that both task discretion and organisational influence relate strongly to employee well-being, while task discretion has a particularly strong relationship to work motivation. It is notable, however, that the trends over time with respect to both forms of participation suggest that British employers have been slow to encourage such developments. - While the lowering of insecurity at work in general over the period 2012 to 2017 is something to celebrate, these results suggest that not all have benefited. Men in general have seen their anxieties about job loss and other threats to their job status fall significantly, but women have not benefitted to the same extent. Stubborn pockets of insecurity also remain. In addition to uncertainty over working hours, those in jobs with insecure hours suffer from a variety of additional insecurities, while at the same time their job quality is poor. |
| Sectors | Education,Electronics,Government, Democracy and Justice |
| URL | https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/ses2017 |
| Description | The 2017 results have been widely reported appearing, for example, on the front and inside pages of the Financial Times; the latter was the second-most read online item on 1 October 2018. SES results have also been quoted by Andy Haldane, Chief Economist at the Bank of England in two widely reported speeches (June 2016 and October 2018). In addition, the first findings reports have been distributed to around 2,400 individuals and 238 delegates registered to attend launch events held in July and October 2018. The results have also featured in evidence submitted to BEIS's Productivity Review (May 2018) and a commissioned report on the state of the Welsh labour market for the Welsh Government's Review of Digital Innovation and the Future of Work (November 2018). A short online job quality self-assessment tool (www.howgoodismyjob.com) has extended the reach of the survey's findings. To date, over 40,000 individuals have taken part. The principles used to select items for the quiz have been cited in a report recommending better ways of measuring job quality set-up in response to the Taylor Review. The quiz has been revised for use by two trade unions (the GMB and NUJ). Based on the results of the project, the PI (Felstead) received a Welsh ministerial invitation to give verbal evidence to the Fair Work Board in July 2017. He was subsequently asked to produce a written report. Only two externals were invited to present to the Board and only Felstead was asked to write a report which was discussed with the Minister in October 2017. To help drive the agenda, Felstead was appointed in August 2018 to the Fair Work Commission as the Independent Expert Advisor. He has subsequently been seconded on a part-time basis to the Welsh Government (October 2019 to April 2020). A special report based on the boosted sample for Wales has been commissioned by Welsh Government and will be published in March 2019. Its results have been discussed at two events in January and February 2019 with the latest discussed by the Welsh Government's Employability Board (a 16-member group of senior civil servants drawn from range of departments chaired by the Welsh Treasury). The data has been used to produce evidence to the RSA/Carnegie Trust Expert Group on Productivity with the results published at a high profile (300+ people) event in London in January 2020. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2018 |
| Sector | Government, Democracy and Justice,Other |
| Impact Types | Economic,Policy & public services |
| Description | Citation in Good Work Plan: Consultation on Measures to Address One-side Flexibility - 'Felstead et al (2018) ... provides a benchmark estimate of the scale of the issue', One of only eight citations in document and only non-government source. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/8186... |
| Description | Citation in Low Pay Commission Report (2018) A Response to Government on 'One-sided Flexibility', 4 citations, p4, p17, p26 and p36 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
| URL | https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/7651... |
| Description | Felstead A (2017) 'Summary paper on Fair Work: concepts, definitions and evidence for Wales', report for the Welsh Government's Fair Work Board, September. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Written evidence invited. |
| Description | Felstead appointed as Expert Advisor to the Welsh Government's Review of Digital Innovation for the Economy and the Future of Work in Wales, September 2018-November 2018. |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Gave written and verbal advice on the nature of employment in Wales. |
| Description | Felstead appointed as Independent Expert Advisor by the First Minister of Wales to the Welsh Government's Fair Work Commission, July 2018-April 2019 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Appointed as Independent Expert Advisor |
| URL | https://gov.wales/about/cabinet/cabinetstatements/2018/fairworkcommission/?lang=en |
| Description | Felstead invited to give written advice to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Business Productivity Review: Government Call for Evidence, 23 May 2018. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Gave written evidence. |
| Description | Felstead invited to provide verbal and written evidence to the Cabinet Office Open Innovation Team on the Government Estate Strategy, 26 October 2018. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Gave evidence to review. |
| Description | Felstead, A (2017) 'Definitions of "Fair Work" and some recent evidence for Wales', invited presentation to the Minister for Skills and Science, Welsh Government and the Fair Work Board, Ty Howell, Cardiff, 24 July 2017. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Invited to give verbal evidence by Minister. |
| Description | Invited presentation to the Wales Employability Group, Welsh Government, Cathays Park, Cardiff, 14 February 2019 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | invited presentation to the Wales Employability Group, Welsh Government who are responsible for the delivery of the Employability Plan. |
| Description | Invited witness to the Department for Work and Pensions Select Committee on preparation for changes in the world of work inquiry, 4 November 2020 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Invited to give verbal evidence out of 200+ submitted pieces of evidence. Invited to submit further evidence. |
| URL | https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/d8c0ebe1-0ae4-4356-a36c-900f47a10cf5 |
| Description | Response to request for additional evidence following oral evidence given to the Department for Work and Pensions Select Committee on preparation for changes in the world of work inquiry, 4 November 2020', written evidence 2 December |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | May influence the Committee's report. |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/15117/pdf/ |
| Description | Written evidence given to the Department for Work and Pension's preparations for changes in the world of work inquiry, 22 July 2020 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Evidence given. |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/7601/pdf/ |
| Description | Written evidence to DWP Select Committe on the Future of Work |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/7601/html/ |
| Description | Skills and Employment Survey 2023: Continuity and Change |
| Amount | £1,536,184 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/X007987/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2023 |
| End | 07/2025 |
| Title | SN 8580 - Skills and Employment Survey 2017: Special Licence Access |
| Description | Complete dataset available in SPSS and STATA formats. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | See ResearchFish entries. |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8580 |
| Title | SN 8581 - Skills and Employment Survey 2017 |
| Description | Complete dataset in SPSS and STATA formats. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Complete dataset in SPSS and STATA formats. |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8581 |
| Title | SN 8589 - Skills and Employment Surveys Series Dataset, 1986, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2006, 2012 and 2017 |
| Description | Complete dataset in STATA and SPSS formats. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | See ResearchFish entries. |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8589 |
| Title | SN 8590 - Skills and Employment Surveys Series Dataset, 1986, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2006, 2012 and 2017: Special Licence Access |
| Description | Complete dataset available in SPSS and STATA formats. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | See ResearchFish entries. |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8590 |
| Title | Skills and Employment Survey 2012: Follow-up Survey, 2014 |
| Description | The Skills and Employment Survey 2012: Follow-up Survey, 2014 (SES2012_R) is a longitudinal follow-up survey from a re-interviewed sample of respondents to the SES2012(SN 7466). SES2012 objectives included the comparison of key aspects of workers' experiences of their jobs with past patterns and to provide insights into how the British workforce felt the direct aftermath of the Great Recession. From 2,497 respondents in SES2012 who agreed to be re-interviewed, 1,108 follow-up interviews were completed approximately two years after the baseline, in the period from January-August 2014. SES2012_R's purpose was to analyse change in key work-related items at the level of individuals since the baseline. The questionnaire follows up on job classification and skills, detailed nature of the job, ICT usage on the job, the organisation working for, the job since the baseline interview, training since the baseline, well-being at work, and basic time-variant demographic characteristics. Further information is available from the Skills and Employment Survey 2012 webpage and the Project 2.5 Good Jobs, Bad Jobs: A Longitudinal Analysis webpage. The Skills Survey is a series of surveys which aim to investigate the employed workforce in Great Britain. The series builds on two previous studies of the workforce, Social Change and Economic Life Initiative Surveys, 1986-1987 (see SN 2798) and Employment in Britain, 1992 (SN 5368). The first Skills Survey was conducted in 1997 (SN 3993) and represented a new approach to assessing the extent to which those at work in Britain had skills matching the requirements of their jobs. The 2001 survey (SN 4972) was aimed at assessing how much had changed between the two surveys. The third survey in 2006 (SN 6004) enhanced this time series data further but had the overarching aim of providing a resource for analysing skill and job requirements in the British economy in the middle part of the current decade. A fourth survey was conducted in 2012 (SNs 7466 and 7645) and aimed to again add to the time series data and, coinciding as it did with a period of economic recession, aimed to provide insight into whether the British workforce felt under additional pressure/demand from employers as a result of redundancies and cut backs. In addition, a series dataset, covering 1986, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2006 and 2012 is also available (SN 7647). A follow-up to the 2012 survey was conducted in 2014 (SN 8264), revisiting respondents who had agreed to be interviewed again. Although these surveys were not originally planned as part of a series and had different funding sources and objectives, continuity in questionnaire design has meant the surveys now provide a unique, national representative picture of change in British workplaces as reported by individual job holders. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This dataset is infrastructural; there are many impacts from varied projects, both within and outside my teams. One recent example of mine is through consultation with the National Education Union, which was interested in the data about the job quality of teachers. |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/doi/?id=8264#1 |
| Title | Skills and Employment Survey, 2017 |
| Description | The project to carry out the 2017 survey was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Cardiff University and the Department for Education with funding from the Welsh Government to boost the sample in Wales (ES/P005292/1). The four specific objectives for SES2017, stemming from the overarching aim (to provide data on the skills and employment experiences of working life in Britain in 2017) were as follows:
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| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This dataset is infrastructural; there are many impacts from varied projects, both within and outside my teams. One recent example of mine is through consultation with the National Education Union, which was interested in the data about the job quality of teachers. |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/doi/?id=8581#1 |
| Title | Skills and Employment Surveys Series Dataset, 1986, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2006, 2012 and 2017 |
| Description | The Skills and Employment Surveys Series Dataset, 1986, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2006, 2012 and 2017 combines data from all seven surveys in the series, where common survey questions were asked. For each survey, weights are computed to take into account the differential probabilities of sample selection, the over-sampling of certain areas and some small response rate variations between groups (defined by sex, age and occupation). All surveys cover Great Britain except the Skills Survey, 2006 which covers the United Kingdom. The surveys are all available separately from the UK Data Archive: Social Change and Economic Life Initiative Surveys, 1986-1987 (SN 2798)Employment in Britain 1992 (SN 5368)Skills Survey 1997 (SN 3993)Skills Survey 2001 (SN 4972)Skills Survey 2006 (SN 6004)Skills and Employment Survey 2012 (SNs 7465 and 7466)Skills and Employment Survey 2017 (SNs 8580 and 8581) A Special Licence access version of this combined dataset including finer detailed geographical variables including (Travel To Work Area, or TTWA) is also available under Special Licence (SN 8590).An earlier Skills and Employment Surveys Series Dataset, covering 1986, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2006 and 2012 is available under SN 7467. The Skills Survey is a series of nationally representative sample surveys of individuals in employment aged 20-60 years old (since 2006, the surveys have additionally sampled those aged 61-65). The surveys aim to investigate the employed workforce in Great Britain. Although they were not originally planned as part of a series and had different funding sources and objectives, continuity in questionnaire design has meant the surveys now provide a unique, national representative picture of change in British workplaces as reported by individual job holders. This allows analysts to examine how various aspects of job quality and skill levels have changed over 30 years.The first surveys in the series were carried out in 1986 and 1992. These surveys also form part of this integrated data series, and are known as the Social Change and Economic Life Initiative (SCELI) and Employment in Britain (EIB) studies respectively.The 1997 survey was the first to collect primarily data on skills using the job requirements approach. This focused on collecting data on objective indicators of job skill as reported by respondents. The 2001 survey assessed how much had changed between the two surveys and a third survey in 2006 enhanced the time series data, while providing a resource for analysing skill and job requirements in the British economy at that time. The 2012 survey aimed to again add to the time series data and, coinciding as it did with a period of economic recession, to provide insight into whether workers in Britain felt under additional pressure/demand from employers as a result of redundancies and cut backs. In addition, a series dataset, covering 1986, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2006 and 2012 is also available . A follow-up to the 2012 survey was conducted in 2014, revisiting respondents who had agreed to be interviewed again. The 2017 survey was the seventh in the series, designed to examine to what extent pressures had continued as a result of austerity and economic uncertainties triggered, for example, by Brexit as well as examining additional issues such as productivity, fairness at work and the retirement intentions of older workers.Each survey comprises a large number of respondents: 4,047 in the 1986 survey; 3,855 in 1992; 2,467 in 1997; 4,470 in 2001; 7,787 in 2006; 3,200 in 2012; and 3,306 in 2017. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This dataset is infrastructural; there are many impacts from varied projects, both within and outside my teams. One recent example of mine is through consultation with the National Education Union, which was interested in the data about the job quality of teachers. |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/doi/?id=8589#1 |
| Description | Analysing the Welsh Boost to the Skills and Employment Survey 2017 |
| Organisation | Government of Wales |
| Department | Welsh Government Food and Drink |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The overall aim of the project is to analyse the results from the Skills and Employment Survey 2017 with a specific focus on how Wales compares to other parts of Britain and how the situation has changed over time. The specific objectives of the project are: to provide policy relevant labour market information to Welsh Government; o ensure that the data presented are robust and non-disclosive; to report using the GSR template and guidelines, and to produce an accompanying Excel file; and to present the findings to Welsh Government officials and others. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Funding provided by Welsh Government (£26,931) |
| Impact | A report will be published. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Development of a short job quality quiz (funded by ESRC IAA via Cardiff University) |
| Organisation | Cardiff University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This project will develop, design and promote an online interactive job quality quiz which benchmarks the quality of quiz takers' jobs against their occupational peers and the average job in Britain, thereby providing users with the evidence to drive change, signposting them to the excellent research output on which these averages are based and, as a secondary output, providing the research team with additional data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Funding the quiz |
| Impact | The outputs of the project will be three-fold: (1) conceptual and statistical validation of a short form and easy-to-use job quality tool; (2) the design of an interactive and engaging online platform for users to share their work experiences and compare themselves against others; and (3) promotion of the URL in all publicity material emanating from the main ESRC project, a digital marketing campaign to drive quiz traffic, and signposting of the quiz by partners and other stakeholders. These are all new, innovative and original outputs - establishing 'proof of concept' for the quiz. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | European Foundation for Living and Working Conditions |
| Organisation | European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions |
| Country | Ireland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | I have been working with Eurofound as an expert to advise on the design of the questionnaire for the European Working Conditions Survey, and as occasional expert contributor on other issues. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partner attended as discussant the release of first findings from the Skills and Employment Survey, and worked with myself on discussions of policy issues |
| Impact | The questionnaire for the 2015 survey and the overview report of the 2010 survey. Later also the draft questionnaire for the 2020 survey but this had to be cancelled owing to the pandemic; the survey will now take place by phone, as opposed to face to face. |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | Welsh Government boost to SES2017 |
| Organisation | Government of Wales |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Inviting Welsh Government to boost British survey for Wales |
| Collaborator Contribution | Financial contribution of £95,040 to boost sample size for Wales |
| Impact | Welsh dataset will be provided. Felstead, A (2017) 'Definitions of "Fair Work" and some recent evidence for Wales', invited presentation to the Minister for Skills and Science, Welsh Government and the Fair Work Advisory Board, Ty Howell, Cardiff, 24 July 2017. Felstead A (2017) 'Summary paper on Fair Work: concepts, definitions and evidence for Wales', report for the Welsh Government's Fair Work Board, September. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | ' "Great reversal" or continued expansion?: The evolution of job skills in Britain over the last two decades', invited presentation made to the LLAKES Centre Conference on 'Young Adults, Inequality and the Generational Divide', Mary Ward House/Senate House Conference Centre, 15-16 November 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | General interest in findings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2018/nov/llakes-centre-conference-2018 |
| Description | 'Almost half of UK staff have to work very hard - report', Network, Autumn 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Article mentions SES data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 'Are dark kitchens the satanic mills or our era?', by John Harris, The Guardian, 9 October 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Article uses SES data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/09/dark-kitchens-satanic-mills-deliveroo |
| Description | 'Britons working harder than ever, says report - teaching and nursing top list of most demanding professions in UK, according to research', by Robert Booth, The Guardian, 1 October 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article uses SES data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/oct/01/britons-working-harder-than-ever-says-report |
| Description | 'Changing job quality in Britain: results from the Skills and Employment Survey 2017', invited plenary presentation to the CIPD Applied Research Conference, Nottingham Trent University, 5-6 December 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Generate interest in findings |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 'Changing job quality in Britain: some headline findings from the Skills and Employment Survey 2017', paper given to the Human Resources Management Section, Cardiff University Business School, 6 February 2019. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | To generate interest. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | 'Changing places of work: myth or reality, good or bad?', invited presentation to the Urban Studies Foundation Conference on Diversity of Workplaces and Spaces in Cities, University of Southampton, 11-12 September. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Generate interest in findings |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 'Employer demand for English and maths skills falls', by George Ryan, Times Educational Supplement, 15 November 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Article uses SES data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.tes.com/news/employer-demand-english-and-maths-skills-falls |
| Description | 'Examining the trends and profile of insecurity at work', invited presentation made to the LLAKES Centre Conference on 'Young Adults, Inequality and the Generational Divide', Mary Ward House/Senate House Conference Centre, 15-16 November 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Generate interest in findings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 'Exhausted UK staff work harder and faster "just to stand still"', RTE, 2 October 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article uses SES data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2018/1002/999384-today-in-the-press/ |
| Description | 'Exhausted staff work harder "just to stand still"', by Sarah O'Connor, 1 October 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article on front page of FT and an extended article on p2. Second most read article that day on FT.com. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/news/exhausted-uk-staff-work-harder-and-faster-%E2%80%98just-to-stand... |
| Description | 'Exhausted staff work harder "just to stand still"', by Sarah O'Connor, Financial Times, 1 October 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article on front page of FT and an extended article on p2. Second most read article that day on FT.com. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 'Fair work is trending: surveys, measures and a quiz', invited presentation to the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research Data and Methods (WISERD) All-Wales Away Day, Metropole Hotel, Llandrindod Wells, 15-16 May 2019. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Promote the findings to a wider audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | 'Fairness at work in Britain - first findings from the Skills and Employment Survey 2017', keynote presentation made at launch event, Church House, Westminster, 19 July 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Generate interest in findings |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 'First findings from the Skills and Employment Survey 2017', Lauren Mistry, Youth Employment UK, 25 July 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article reports SES findings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.youthemployment.org.uk/first-findings-skills-employment-survey-2017/ |
| Description | 'Five-year study: British workers placed under increasing strain', by Jonathan Powell, 2 October 2018, China Daily |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article uses SES data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201810/02/WS5bb2f5cfa310eff3032808a5.html |
| Description | 'Gig economy fuelled "lost decade" in wage growth - Bank economist', by Richard Partington, The Guardian, 10 October 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Article uses SES data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/oct/10/gig-economy-fuelled-lost-decade-in-wage-growth-bank-ec... |
| Description | 'Help the low-skilled ride out the robots', by Sarah O'Connor, Financial Times, 30 January 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article uses SES data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | 'Insecurity at Work in Britain - first findings from the Skills and Employment Survey 2017', keynote presentation made at launch event, Canada Water Culture Space, London, 3 October 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Generate interest in findings |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 'Job quality frameworks', invited plenary presentation to the CIPD Applied Research Conference, Nottingham Trent University, 5-6 December 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Generate interest in findings |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 'Lord Haskel: empowering staff will slow down the growing problem of mental distress at work', by Lord Haskel, House of Lords, PoliticsHome.com, 14 November 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Article uses SES data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/health-and-care/illnesstreatments/opinion/house-lords/99811/lor... |
| Description | 'Making better use of workers' ideas: new evidence on a neglected aspect of the productivity debate', invited presentation made to the LLAKES Centre Conference on 'Young Adults, Inequality and the Generational Divide', Mary Ward House/Senate House Conference Centre, 15-16 November 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Generate interest in findings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 'Mental health is a corporate risk, so why aren't leaders addressing it?, by Sally Percy, Forbes, 10 October 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article uses SES data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypercy/2018/10/10/mental-health-is-a-corporate-risk-so-why-arent-le... |
| Description | 'Most employees can work smarter, given the chance', by Marta Subat, Infosurhoy, 21 July 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article reports SES findings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://infosurhoy.com/cocoon/saii/xhtml/en_GB/science/science-most-employees-can-work-smarter-given-... |
| Description | 'Most employees can work smarter, given the chance', pys.org, 20 July 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article reports SES findings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://phys.org/news/2018-07-employees-smarter-chance.html |
| Description | 'New report on productivity from the workers' perspective', South West Skills Newsletter, 1 August 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article reports on SES findings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 'Overview of employment in Wales', invited presentation made to the Digital Innovation and the Future of Work Welsh Government Review, Plaza Hotel, Cardiff, 18-19 October 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Generate interest in findings |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 'Participation at Work in Britain - first findings from the Skills and Employment Survey 2017', keynote presentation made at launch event, Canada Water Culture Space, London, 3 October 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Generate interest in findings |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 'Pay power', speech given by Andy Haldane, Chief Economist, Bank of England, 10 October 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Article uses SES data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/speech/2018/pay-power-speech-by-andy-haldane.pdf |
| Description | 'Productivity in Britain: the workers' perspective - first findings from the Skills and Employment Survey 2017', keynote presentation made at launch event, Church House, Westminster, 19 July 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Generate interest in findings |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 'Putting the spotlight on job quality: developing a tool to identify the highs and lows, and prompt change', paper presented to the International Labour Process Conference, Vienna University, Austria, 24-26 April. 2019. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Paper presented to the International Labour Process Conference, Vienna University, Austria, 24-26 April 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | 'Research into working conditions: Most employees can work smarter', Open Access Government, 17 September 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article reports on SES findings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/working-conditions/52129/ |
| Description | 'Skills and Employment Survey 2017', Edge Bulletin: Skills Shortages in the UK Economy, November 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Article uses SES data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.edge.co.uk/news/edge-news/schools-should-offer-creative-and-technical-subjects-to-warrant... |
| Description | 'Skills trends at work in Britain - first findings from the Skills and Employment Survey 2017', keynote presentation made at launch event, Church House, Westminster, 19 July 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Generate interest in findings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 'Stressed, ignored and knackered - the lot of British workers in 2018', by Mark Eltringham, Insight, 2 October 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article uses SES data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://workplaceinsight.net/stressed-ignored-and-knackered-the-lot-of-british-workers-in-2018/ |
| Description | 'Survey finds that most employees can work smarter', by Barney Cotton, Business Leader, 19 July 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article reports SES findings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 'Survey reveals potential efficiency gains if managers listen to their employees', IPA News in Brief July 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article reports on SES findings |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ipa-involve.com/news/news-in-brief-july-2018?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_ter... |
| Description | 'The Challenge of the Quality of Work in Contemporary Capitalism', Lecture by Professor Duncan Gallie, Annual Fuller Lecture, Sociology Department, University of Essex, March 2019. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Raise profile of the survey. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | 'The new flexible: how employers are rethinking working hours', by Emma Jacobs, Financial Times, 11 October 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article uses SES data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ft.com/content/243b128e-cba9-11e8-9fe5-24ad351828ab |
| Description | 'The vicious cycle of workplace exhaustion', by Sarah O'Connor, Financial Times, 17 October 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Article uses SES data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 'Work intensity in Britain - first findings from the Skills and Employment Survey 2017', keynote presentation made at launch event, Canada Water Culture Space, London, 3 October 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Generate interest in findings |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | BEIS talk. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | 14/10/2019. "Working Still Harder". Dept of Business, Enterprise and Industrial Strategy. Part of a symposium presentation of the research done from the 2017 survey. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Belfast talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | 7/5/2019 Presentation to Dept for the Economy in Belfast. "Training Trends". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | CIPD Dublin. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 1/2020. Working Still Harder. CIPD Applied Research Conference, Dublin. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Conference presentation PrOPEL Hub |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Follow-ups with delegates |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Definitions of "Fair Work" and some recent evidence for Wales |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | To influence Welsh Government policy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Discussion with the National Education Union about teachers' working conditions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with the leaders of the National Education Union, to discuss teachers' working conditions and the question of how they had changed since before the pandemic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Engagement with teacher unions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This paper of mine -- Green, Francis. 2021. "British Teachers' Declining Job Quality: Evidence from the Skills and Employment Survey." Oxford Review of Education 47 (3), 386-403. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2020.1847719 -- has attracted the attention of teachers' unions both in England and Northern Ireland. I engaged with a 90 minute discussion with union leaders and civil servants in Northern Ireland to discuss the significance of the research findings for teachers in general in Northern Ireland. I have also accepted an invitation to have a similar conversation with NEU leaders in England. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Felstead, A (2020) 'Making a difference: sampling, modes of data collection and measures of job quality', paper given to the Individual and the Labour Market Group, University of Cambridge, 26 November 2020. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Further dialogue with others. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Gatsby Foundation talk. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | 13/6/2019. Recent Training Trends. Gatsby Foundation, London. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | HDCA Talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | UN Human Development and Capability Association: Working Group on Work and Employment |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Innovation and productivity: the employees' perspective |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Raised interest. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited presentation at the LIS Workshop "The Distributional Effects of Higher-Education Expansion" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An invited presentation on graduate skills demands at the 2nd LIS Workshop on "The Distributional Effects of Higher-Education Expansion" for about 30 participants from across Europe. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.lisdatacenter.org/newsletter/nl-2020-16-im-4/ |
| Description | Invited to give one-to-one advice on approaches to Fair Work to Julie James AM, the Minister of Skills and Science in the Welsh Government, Ty Howell, Cardiff Bay, 12 October 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited to give advice on Welsh Government's approach to raising work quality. Invited one-to-one advice prompted by report on Fair Work written by Alan Felstead. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Panel contributor to event organised by Public Health Wales |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Follow-ups with participants |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | RESEARCH SEMINAR ON TASKS, SKILLS AND OCCUPATIONS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | In the context of the research programme on the changing nature of work and skills of the Human Capital and Employment Unit of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, this seminar brought together around 20 international experts on tasks, skills and occupations from research centre, international bodies and universities in Sevilla in February 21st and 22nd. The first day kicked off a project to update the Eurofound tasks framework, compiling national databases with a common methodology in four European countries (UK, Germany, Italy and Spain) and designing a questionnaire for the measurement of tasks, work organisation and technology. This project is jointly coordinated by the JRC and Italy's INAPP, with participation of INAPP, the University of Warwick, Pompeu Fabra University and BIBB from Germany. For Britain, the project will draw on the Skills and Employment Survey Series: An ESRC funded data collection effort. The second day saw discussion of several ongoing projects from JRC and collaborators on the topic of tasks, skills and occupations, including: "A unified conceptual framework on skills, tasks and occupations", "AI, tasks and the automation of Human labour", "Tasks in the platform economy". Potential plans for future collaboration on related activities were discussed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Real World Podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Real World Podcast on UCL IoE website |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2021/mar/employment-prospects-job-quality-and-intensification-work-rftrw-s... |
| Description | Seminar talk at Southampton University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Follow-ups with attendees |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Talk at Welsh Labour fringe event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited to give a talk to members of the Senedd |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Talk given to WISERD 2022 conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Follow-ups after the event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Talk given to the CIPD ARC 2023 conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Follow-ups after the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |