Research Profile
Prof Alan Felstead
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Research Interests
- Training, skills and learning;
- The spaces and places of employment;
- The quality of work;
- Non-standard forms of employment;
- Quantitative and qualitative research methods.
Career Overview
Professor Alan Felstead has degrees from the University of Cambridge, the University of Warwick and Imperial College, University of London. He has held positions at Nuffield College, University of Oxford and the University of Leicester. Currently, he is Research Professor at Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. His research focuses on: the quality of work; training, skills and learning; non-standard employment; and the spaces and places of work. He has completed over 40 funded research projects (including nine funded by the Economic and Social Research Council), produced six books, and written over 170 journal articles, book chapters and research reports. He has generated research income of £5.2 million with grants from, for example, the ESRC, UK government departments, the devolved administrations, the European Union and the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP). His recent books include: Improving Working as Learning (with Fuller, A, Jewson, N and Unwin, L), London: Routledge, 2009; and Changing Places of Work (with Jewson, N and Walters, S), London: Palgrave, 2005. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the ESRC Centre for Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies (LLAKES), Institute of Education, University of London, a Visiting Research Fellow at the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES), and an Academician of the Academy of the Social Sciences (AcSS).
Current Research
ESRC – ‘Skills and Employment Survey 2012’ (RES-241-25-0001), under the ESRC/UKCES Strategic Partnership with additional funding from WISERD (Principal Applicant with Duncan Gallie and Francis Green). £808,877.
The Skills and Employment Survey 2012 (SES2012) is a national study of people aged 20-65 who are in paid work. The survey focuses upon the work that people do and how working life has changed over time. The 2012 survey is the latest in a series of studies which began in 1986. It anticipated that around 3,170 respondents will take part in the 2012 survey.
ESRC – ‘Training in Recession: Historical, Comparative and Case Study Perspectives’ (RES-594-28-0001), under the ESRC/UKCES Strategic Partnership (Principal Applicant with Francis Green). £201,589.
This project seeks to analyze, compare and explain the impact of the current recession on training in the UK and, in particular, its impact on the long-term ambition of making the UK a world leader in skills, employment and productivity by 2020.