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Based on research with 85 creative freelancers in Coventry, Northumberland and Waltham Forest, the report ' provides detail on the contribution of creative freelancers to the economic, societal and place-based impacts of the creative industries.

As the research, led by Coventry University, was undertaken in 2020 throughout the lockdowns, the report also identifies the impact of the pandemic on one of the most vulnerable groups of workers and sectors affected by Covid-19.

This report provides:

• the range of value generation for the economy and for society of creative freelancing,
• a typology of creative freelancers based on their generation of different types of value, and
• policy directions to support the full and sustainable contribution to economy, society and places of creative freelancing.

ReWAGE – Renewing Work Advisory Group of Experts – has launched. Hosted by IER with the Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change () at Leeds University, it is an expert advisory group to support the government’s strategic response to the recovery and renewal of work and employment in the UK post-Covid. It will sit into 2022.

It will produce evidence papers, policy briefings and reports for government on specialist topics important for maintaining existing jobs, creating new and better jobs and ensuring a return to a well-functioning labour market. Contact ReWAGE for more information.

In a recent webinar, hosted by the Productivity and the Futures of Work GRP at the University of ÌÇÐÄTV and facilitated by IER’s Professor Chris Warhurst, of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission examined how Covid-19 had changed the profile of the teleworker and what it meant for the future of work. The recording of the webinar is accessible via the replay link.

The publication of the Futuretrack Stage 5 study conducted in 2019, led by Professors Peter Elias and Kate Purcell and funded by the Nuffield Foundation, showed ‘how the majority of graduates had by then achieved reasonable job security, with many balancing work and parenting or other caring roles when the pandemic hit’ (see press release). In 2020, the research team went back to respondents to investigate how they had been affected by the Covid restrictions and economic impact and conducted Futuretrack Stage 6.

For full details of the research see:

• the report on the Covid-19 impact: Covid 19 and graduate careers
• a slightly revised version of the report published in March 2021: Ten Years On – the Futuretrack Graduates
• a short report that summarises and draws the implications of both the above What a difference a year makes: the impact of Covid 19 on graduate careers

Clare Lyonette from IER has been collaborating with Professor Tracey Warren from Nottingham University ÌÇÐÄTV School on a 12-month ESRC-funded project on the impact of Covid on working class women. The final report was published to coincide with a on June 18th.

The authors are also presenting their main findings to the Women and Equalities Committee on June 30th, as part of an ESRC Impact Acceleration Account grant, which focuses on disseminating current Covid-related employment research undertaken by IER to relevant UK parliamentarians, with the hope that it will then feed into their deliberations about economic recovery post-Covid.

More information can be found:

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• on the Nottingham University ÌÇÐÄTV schools' page
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