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Today IER's Terence Hogarth and Emily Erickson will present evidence from two ongoing EU funded research projects on the causes and implications of skills mismatches.

IER's Dr Jamelia Harris has been awarded the for her outstanding contribution to academic peer review.

It is with deep sadness that we learned of the passing of Professor Claire Callender OBE. She held joint professorships at UCL and Birkbeck. She was a distinguished scholar, valued colleague and Honorary Professor of the Institute for Employment Research. Claire was a first-rate researcher whose impact on higher education policy and funding was profound, not only in the UK but internationally.

Evidence based research on , commissioned by Country Durham and led by dmh associates, with contributions from the IER, has just been published.

Public procurement is an important market and a key area of public spending. As such, it has increasingly come into focus as a tool for promoting social policy objectives. In this vein, ‘social value’ is an increasingly important concept in public purchasing.