Nancy Arthur

Dr. Nancy Arthur is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in professional education, Educational Studies in Counselling Psychology, Faculty of Education, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Her research and teaching focuses on preparing professionals for working in global contexts, for social justice, and for helping clients manage international transitions. She has published extensively in the field of multicultural counselling and career development. Her books include Counseling International Students; Case Incidents in Counseling for International Transitions, and she co-edited the award winning book, Culture-Infused Counselling. She currently serves on the Board of Governors for the Canadian Career Development Association and was recently elected to the Board of the International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance.

Graham Attwell

Graham Attwell is a specialist in Technology-enhanced teaching and learning and web-based learning environment development. He is involved in research and development into pedagogies for Technology Enhanced Learning, recognition of informal learning, training of teachers and trainers and development of open source software for education and Open Educational Resources. His recent work has focused on research and development of new applications and approaches to e-Portfolios and Personal Learning Environments and use of social software for learning and knowledge development. He is experienced in the use of ICT for e-Learning and in developing, delivering and moderating e-learning programmes for teachers and trainers in initial training and for professional development. His company, Pontydysgu, has organised a series of face-to-face and on-line workshops for teachers in producing Open Education resources. He is a consultant to OECD and UNESCO on open content development and and has acted as a consultant to the European Centre for Vocational Education and Training (CEDEFOP) on virtual communities and knowledge harvesting. He has extensive experience of national project evaluation and national and international programme evaluation in relation to innovations in learning, including use of ICT to support learning. He is currently working with the support team for the JISC Emerge and CREATE programmes. His popular edublog - the Wales Wide Web.

Derek Bosworth

Derek Bosworth is also an Emeritus Professor at the University of Manchester, Senior Research Associate at St. Peter’s College, Oxford and Research Fellow at the UK Commission for Employment and Skills. Until recently, he was also an Honorary Professor at Wuhan University of Technology. He has worked with IER and its predecessors for over thirty years. He started work as a researcher at The University of Warwick, undertaking workforce projections for the then Engineering Industry Training Board, and has continued to take an interest in issues relating to skills and employment throughout his career. He has worked extensively on both theoretical and empirical labour supply and demand models, as well as analysing their implications for skill shortages, education and training.

Geoff Briscoe

Geoff Briscoe is a Senior Lecturer in the Built Environment Department at Coventry University. He teaches modules in construction economics, communications, construction management and construction finance. He has authored numerous academic papers and research monographs, mainly in the fields of construction labour markets and supply chain management. Recently published papers have appeared in Construction Management and Economics (2005), Building Research and Information (2006) and Construction Information Quarterly (2006). He has received funding from the European Social Fund to undertake a skills analysis linked to construction industry supply chains and has carried out other research for CITB-Construction Skills, ICE and CIRIA. Geoff has been an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute for Employment Research since 1985. He has worked with the Institute for Employment Research on numerous projects concerned with labour skills, apprenticeships, training and occupational employment, especially in the construction sector.

Bill Daniel

W.W. Daniel, CBE, is an Associate Fellow of IER, and former Director of Policy Studies Institute. His research, starting with his pioneering study of racial disadvantage during the 1960s (Racial Disadvantage in England, 1968) and including one of the first longitudinal studies of unemployed people carried out during the late 1970s and early 1980s (The Unemployed Flow, 1991), has had a major influence on equality and employment policy in the UK. He was also responsible for establishing the Workplace Industrial / Employment Relations Survey, one of the most widely cited and analysed surveys in the world. He has had a long standing relationship with IER and, since his retirement from PSI, has worked on a number of labour market studies at the Institute.

Nadya Araujo Guimarães

Nadya Araujo Guimarães got her BA in Social Sciences (1971) and MA in Sociology (1974) at the University of Brasilia, Brazil, and her PhD in Sociology at UNAM, México (1983); Post-Doctoral Studies at MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology/DUSP-Department of Urban Studies and Planning (1993-4). She is Chair Professor at University of São Paulo-Dept. of Sociology, where she has been teaching from 1999 on and coordinates the Graduate Program in Sociology. She is also a Senior Researcher Coordinator at the Center for Metropolitan Studies, a special research program at CEBRAP – Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento, and an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick, UK and also at the Laboratoire CNRS “Genre, Travail et Mobilités”, Paris, France. She was also Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Brasilia (1971-1973), Professor at Federal University of Bahia (1974-1994) and Visiting Professor at Princeton University / Program in Latin American Studies (2007). Present research activities include studies on labour market dynamics focusing on: (i) comparative studies on workers trajectories and unemployment experience under different welfare regimes and employment systems (São Paulo, Paris and Tokyo); (ii) labour market institutions and social networks in search for job in São Paulo; (iii) gender and race inequalities in Brazilian labour market.

Simone Haasler

Simone Haasler is an economist and social scientist. Her research interests include international comparisons of labour markets and training systems; skills development and learning; careers and work identity. As senior research fellow at the Institute Technology and Education of the University of Bremen, Germany (from 2001 to 2010) she has been managing numerous European research and development projects on labour markets, skills and teachers and trainers in vocational education and training. Together with the Institute for Employment Research Simone has worked on several projects concerned with labour market developments, apprenticeships, training and careers. Now at the Centre of Social Policy Research of the University of Bremen (http://de.zes.uni-bremen.de) her research focus has expanded to industrial relations and the welfare state as well as gender. Her current teaching assignments include the sociology of work, industrial relations and qualitative methods. Before joining the University of Bremen in 2001 Simone Haasler worked for three years as Education Specialist for the Human Development Network of the World Bank in Washington, DC., USA mostly being involved with education and social development projects in Africa and Latin America.

Chris Hasluck

Chris Hasluck is a labour economist and social policy researcher. Chris was Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for Employment Research (IER) between 1989 and 2009 before a brief spell as Associate Director at SQW. Chris now works as an independent consultant (Hasluck Employment Research). Chris has a broad range of experience, having worked variously in industry, as a lecturer in higher education and as manager of a large academic department (Deputy Head of School of Economics and Accounting at Leicester Polytechnic). In 2010 he was appointed Visiting Research Fellow at the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES). Chris is also long-serving member of the Board of Governors of the Bupa Foundation (a medical charity funding research into health and well-being).

Chris has undertaken a wide range of research in the field of labour market analysis and policy evaluation with particular expertise in the analysis of unemployment and worklessness, employment services (public and private), employers’ recruitment practices and employment programmes. He has contributed to many national programme evaluations including various New Deals, Employment Zones, Earnings Top-up, Skills Coaching, Parenting Early Intervention Pilots, and City Strategies and has (in partnership with Terence Hogarth) been responsible for a series of studies relating to the costs and benefits of apprenticeships and intermediate vocational training. Chris’s publications include a large number of systematic evidence reviews covering topics such as workless households, social exclusion, profiling unemployed people and the costs to employers of recruiting and retaining people with disabilities and long-term health issues. His publications include Urban Unemployment: Local Labour Markets and Employment Initiatives (Longman), Local Labour Markets: Problems and Policies (Longman) and Unemployment and Public Policy in a Changing Labour Market (Policy Studies Institute) as well as numerous journal articles and project reports.

Deirdre Hughes OBE

Dr Deirdre Hughes OBE has recently been appointed as Commissioner at the UK Commission for Employment & Skills (July 2011). She is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Employment Research (IER), University of Warwick, Immediate Past President and Fellow of the Institute of Career Guidance (ICG) and an Associate at the Centre for Educational Sociology, Edinburgh University. She is also Founding Director of the International Centre for Guidance Studies (iCeGS), University of Derby (1998-2008). She specialises in the evidence-base and impact of careers work, as well researching issues on social mobility, NEETs, information, communications and technology (ICT) in careers policy and practice, and marketisation issues. Deirdre has recently undertaken research with IER colleagues, on behalf of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES), on ICT and careers practice, and a major European comparative research project on The role of careers adaptability in skills supply. She is currently working with the TSL Education Ltd and the Education and Employers Taskforce in England (July 2011) to make accessible online careers support materials for teachers and careers professionals linked to vibrant multi-disciplinary communities of practice.

She has strong international links with leading academics and expert consultants across the globe, including countries such as Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Latvia, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain and the USA. Deirdre was appointed to work with 27 countries as a ‘Lead Consultant’ within the European Lifelong Policy Network and is an active member of the International Centre for Career Development and Public Policy (ICCDP) working on the theme of ‘Prove It Works’. Deirdre has written a series of UK Country Reports to feed into international symposia on Career Development and Public Policy, on behalf of the Assembly governments in the four home countries of the UK.

Deirdre is a member of the UK Careers Sector Strategic Group and Careers Profession Taskforce in England. She supported the formation of the UK ‘Careers Profession Alliance’ which brings together six careers professional associations to speak with one voice to government, employers and the wider profession. She has also undertaken a major review of careers provision in Wales (2010), on behalf of the Minister for Children, Education and Lifelong Learning. Deirdre has previously undertaken work, on behalf of DEL, to develop and implement Careers Resources Centres and to review adult guidance provision. In 2008, she established ‘DMH Associates’ which provides training, research and consultancy services to a wide range of key stakeholders. She is currently an External Examiner at Limerick University and Ulster University.

Mary McMahon

Dr Mary McMahon is a senior lecturer in the School of Education at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia where she teaches in the guidance and counselling specialisation of the Master of Educational Studies. She writes and researches in the field of career development and is particularly interested in the career development of children and adolescents, narrative and storied approaches to career counselling and qualitative approaches to career assessment. A more recent interest in adult career transition has resulted in a research collaboration with Professor Jenny Bimrose from the Institute for Employment Research.

McMahon, M., Watson, M. & Bimrose, J. (2010) Stories of careers, learning and identity across the lifespan: Considering the future narrative of career theory. Stourbridge: Institute of Career Guidance.

Imanol Nuñez

Dr Imanol Nuñez is a lecturer at the Universidad Publica de Navarra in Pamplona (Spain). He has also worked as visiting research fellow at the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona and Warwick IER, and collaborates with the Spanish Institute of Health and Safety. As a Labour economist, his research is focused on the empirical analysis of the impact of issues such as health, ageing and education on employment outcomes. His work at the IER has been mainly focused on the use of advanced econometrics in large databases such as the European Labour Force Survey (ELFS), particularly, to analyse the transition to the labour market of European graduates. His research has been published in journals including; Human Resource Management, Social Science and Medicine, Higher Education, Ageing and Society or International Journal of Manpower.

Philip Taylor

Professor Philip Taylor joined Monash University, Australia in 2010 as Director of Research and Graduate Studies at its Gippsland campus. Prior to this he was Professor of Employment Policy at Swinburne University of Technology where he was Director of the Business, Work and Ageing Centre for Research. He has researched and written in the field of age and the labour market for more than 20 years. He is currently leading major programs of research considering the management of ageing workforces. His interests include the management of labour supply, individual orientations to work and retirement, employers’ attitudes and practices towards older workers and international developments in public policies aimed at combating age barriers in the labour market and prolonging working life.

Massimo Tomassini

Massimo Tomassini is engaged in activities within three main fields: 1. Research: applying reflective/reflexive methods in different areas such as work-based learning and life skills. 2. Education: teaching as contract professor at the Roma Tre University (Faculty of Education Science); implementing education and action-research projects in companies and non-profit organisations; 3 Individual and group development, carrying out a private activity as mindfulness counsellor according to principles established by the Mindfulness Project (within the Lama Tzong Kapa Institute). Massimo attended the first teachers’ training course of the Cultivating Emotional Balance programme, in 2010.

Professor Mark Watson

Mark is a professor in the Psychology Department of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa. He specialises in career, school and adolescent psychology and his research focuses on the career development and career assessment of primary, secondary and tertiary students from all South African population groups. Mark has published extensively in international journals, is the co-editor of a career book, has contributed book chapters to several international career texts, and is a co-developer of an international qualitative career assessment tool. He is presently on the editorial advisory board of a number of national and international career journals.

McMahon, M., Watson, M. & Bimrose, J. (2010) Stories of careers, learning and identity across the lifespan: Considering the future narrative of career theory. Stourbridge: Institute of Career Guidance.