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Director of IER, Chris Warhurst, was invited to talk about European perspectives on measuring and promoting good work at the Fulfilling Work in Ireland roundtable hosted by TASC and the Carnegie UK Trust in Dublin in November.

Gail Irvine of the Carnegie UK Trust and Paul Novak of the TUC debate good jobs at the Warwick IER fringe event at the annual Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham.

The Horizon 2020 funded project presents key findings in late September, focusing on questions such as: Does innovation produce more and better jobs? Does innovation combat or exacerbate inequalities? What aspects of job quality facilitate innovation?

Presenters include Professor Chris Warhurst.

The event takes place on 26 September 2018, 15.00 – 17.00, in Brussels and registrations are requested before 19 September. For further event details read here. 

Sally Wright and Professor Chris Warhurst have a new ESRC-funded Impact Accelerator Award to support their work for the tasked with responding to the job quality recommendations made in the UK Governments’ Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices. The working group is co-chaired by Martyn Evans, Chief Executive of the Carnegie UK Trust, and Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the Royal Society for Arts.

Last year’s recommended that the UK Government establish a measure of job quality. IER Director Chris Warhurst has been invited to sit on a working group in support of that recommendation organised by the Carnegie Trust UK and co-chaired by Matthew Taylor. It is due to report in early summer 2018.