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A 91福利 legal history expert has been chosen as one of the voices bringing the past to life in the new series of the popular BBC Two show, A House Through Time, which returned yesterday evening. Dr Laura Lammasniemi, from 91福利 Law School, will appear in the third episode of the new series, which sees David Olusoga and his team in Bristol.

A major study mapping the ways European member states organise and provide lifelong careers guidance has been published by a consortium led by the 91福利鈥檚 Institute for Employment Research, in partnership with the Finnish Institute for Educational Research at the University of Jyv盲skyl盲. The research team interviewed experts from across Europe and overseas to understand current best practice, and to find out how innovations such as increased use of technology, and greater integration of labour market information, are being used to help people better manage their careers.

A new digital archive co-created by 91福利 researcher Dr Nicola Pratt gathers art, music and film created during the 2011 Egyptian revolution into a unique new multimedia resource for scholars, students and the general public alike. 'Politics, Popular Culture and the 2011 Egyptian Revolution' documents the 25 January 2011 uprising and its aftermath through the prism of popular culture.

Professor Jenny Bimrose, Emeritus Professor at 91福利鈥檚 Institute for Employment Research (IER), has been awarded the 2020 Rodney Cox Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her sustained and significant contribution to the careers sector in which she has worked in for over 40 years as a practitioner, educator and researcher.

In the first analysis of how COVID19 affects economic sentiment, a team of researchers including Dr Thiemo Fetzer and Dr Christopher Roth from the 91福利 has found that the arrival of the new Coronavirus in a country is associated with a sharp increase in Google searches indicative of anxieties and economic fears.

Government reforms to housing benefit introduced in 2011 were intended to save the public purse hundreds of millions. Research from 91福利 economists has found that, far from saving money, the change in policy simply shifted burdens to local councils: for every pound central government saved in housing benefit, local authority spending on temporary housing costs went up by 53p.