Recent CR&DALL Projects

This section covers recent CR&DALL work which is now closed.

 

The making of the 'precariat': unemployment, insecurity and work-poor young adults in harsh economic conditions

This project is funded under the Secondary Data Analysis Initiative of the ESRC. Together with colleagues at the Centre for Labour Market Studies at the University of Leciester (John Goodwin, Henrietta O'Connor and Sarah Hadfield) we are focusing on unemployment, underemployment and precarious work among young people. The project involves secondary analysis of two projects carried out in the 1980s which are compared with contemporary data from a national survey, Understanding Society. The project commences in February 2013.

Andy Furlong, Stuart Hall and Kevin Lowden

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The Interim Evaluation of the EC's Lifelong Learning Programme, 2007-2013

By 2010, the current Lifelong Learning Programme of the EC had run for three years. In order to improve the continuation of the programme, and to provide recommendations for the successor programme (2014–2019), the Commission launched an interim evaluation. The objective of this evaluation led by Public Policy and Management Institute in Vilnius was twofold, namely to provide a retrospective and a prospective analysis. The evaluation covered the period from 2007-2009 and included analysis of the overall programme as well as its sub-programmes.

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Comparative International Study of School-based VET in Scotland, Kent and Virginia

This research is concerned with Vocational Pathways. It investigates the effectiveness of the different types of vocational courses and workplace experience/learning currently in place for males and females aged 14-19, the methods and place of delivery, and the fitness for purpose of the courses in terms of employers’ needs as well as those young people who may want to engage in meaningful economic activity themselves.

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Grundtvig International Network of Course Organisers (GINCO)

LLL Programme - GRUNDTVIG Multilateral project.  The GINCO network aims: to contribute to improve the quality of GRU European training provision and its accreditation systems; to install effective mechanisms for co-operation between (potential) GRU course organisers; to strengthen the cooperation between the relevant stakeholders of GRU courses: AE providers, NAs, the European Commission and other relevant stakeholders; to contribute to the professionalization of adult education staff concerning GRU course provision and delivery; to expand the GRU course provision in eligible countries of t

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Tertiary Higher Education for People in Mid-life (THE-PM)

The main challenges of the ageing knowledge economy are constant upgrading of the skills of the active population and mitigating new and old social risks. People in mid-life is increasingly exposed to risks of exclusion from the labour market and lifelong learning. The inclusion of this age group in HE is one of the main challenges of education and training systems.  The project aims to study the TLL of HE institutes in several countries with respect to inclusion of mid-life learners.

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