BACKGROUND

Peter Elias studied in the sciences before undertaking his doctoral studies in applied labour economics at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a Professor at the Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick, where he has worked across a wide variety of research areas over the last 30 years. These have ranged from the evaluation of large-scale government programmes, statistical monitoring of the status of particular groups in the labour market, the study of occupational change and the relationship between further and higher education, vocational training and labour market outcomes. Related to these research areas, he has developed methods for the measurement and analysis of labour market dynamics and has a keen interest in the classification of labour market activities. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society

From October 2004 he has acted as the Strategic Advisor for Data Resources to the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) , assisting the ESRC and other research funding councils and agencies with plans to develop data resources for research across the social sciences and at the boundaries between the social sciences and other disciplines.

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Revision of the Standard Occupational Classification, Office for National Statistics, Project Start Date: 01/05/2007 Project End Date: 05/04/2010
• ESRC: Strategic Advisor for Data Resources, ESRC, Project Start Date: 01/10/2007 Project End Date: 30/09/2010
• Longitudinal Programme - Research Phase - Core Study, with Purcell, K, University of Warwick, P Elias, Higher Education Careers Services Unit, Project Start Date: 01/05/2006 Project End Date: 30/04/2012
  
  

  Further Research Projects

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Elias, P. (2009) 'A revised UK National Strategy for Data Resources for Social and Economic Research, 2009-2012 (report)', [Report]
• Guimarães, N., Cardoso, A., Purcell, K. and Elias, P. (2008) Reestruturação Econômica, Mudança Ocupacional e Desigualdade no Brasil e no Reino Unido , Rio de Janeiro: FGV
• Purcell, K. and Elias, P. (2008) 'Achieving equality in the knowledge economy' in Women and Employment: Changing Lives and New Challenges, Editors: J. Scott, S. Dex and H. Joshi, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
• Purcell, K., Wilton, N. and Elias, P. (2007) 'Hard Lessons for Lifelong Learners? Mature graduates and Mass Higher Education' Higher Education Quarterly 61 (1), 57 - 82 (0951-5224)
• Elias, P. and K. Purcell (2004) 'Is Mass Higher Education Working? Evidence from the Labour Market Experiences of Recent Graduates' National Institute Economic Review 60 - 74 (0027-9501)

Further Publications

Conference Papers