Research

This section of the website describes CROW’s past and present research work, and its plans for the future.

Projects led by CROW and based at the University of Surrey

• Job change and the older labour market – the 2003 national omnibus survey - SEEDA
• Attitudes to work and retirement – the 2004 national postal survey - SEEDA
• 50+ Europe: strategies to overcome barriers to employment for the over 50s in Europe - ESF
• Age Discrimination: Effects of Education and Gender – ESF HE
• The Age Dimension of Employers' Practices in Great Britain - DTI

Projects in which CROW was a partner and based at the University of Surrey

• Unravelling Workforce Discrimination in the South East of England
  SEEDA led by Kingston University
• Regional Development Agencies and the Older Workforce – led by NIACE

Current Projects: based at NIACE

• Age legislation: a sectoral perspective – DWP
• Age and knowledge management in the European motor industry – (KNOWMOVE) - ESF
• Age management for employers and trades unions – CIPD/TUC
• Age management in the retail sector in Hampshire – LSC, Chichester College
• Overcoming age discrimination in Brighton & Hove – EU EQUAL, Brighton & Hove Council
• Action for Skills SE project to develop and evaluate approaches to providing advice, guidance and mentoring for employed older workers across the South East Region

Future Research Plans

CROW is in the process of planning or awaiting funding decisions on further research on the following topics

• The impact of the Learning and Skills Council’s Train to Gain programme on older workers
• The role of advice, guidance and brokering agencies in supporting older workers
• The reasons for the decline in training among people after 50
• The training of job brokers and educational guidance agencies with the over 50s
• The development of regional strategies for the older workforce
• International comparison of the impact of age discrimination legislation