Deirdre Hughes OBE, Associate Professor, has been working with Guest Editors from Derby, Dublin and Maynooth Universities on a newly published British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, Special Issue on 'Praxis in Guidance and Counselling: New Frontiers'. An open link to the Introduction is available on the journal website.

In this book chapter Philip Taylor and co-authors Phillippa Carnemolla and Jane Bringolf consider issues of aged care work that is carried out in people's homes and viewed as workplaces.

Bookings are now open for the next webinar on Predicting Future Skill Needs. Tickets for the event on 7 May, 10-11.30 am are available via Eventbrite.

In March Chris Warhurst of IER met with IndustriAll in Brussels to discuss job quality. IndustriALL is the global union federation for the mining, energy and manufacturing sectors and IndustriAll Europe has a Good Jobs campaign ahead of the European elections in June. The campaign champions having a proactive European industrial plan to create good industrial jobs. The discussion centred on initiatives within the UK to measure and report job quality nationally.

Rebeka Balogh became IER’s first EUTOPIA graduate.

EUTOPIA is a pan European partnership of ten universities focused on collaborative research. It funded a joint PhD studentship between IER and Interface Demography (ID) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).