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Phillip Taylor, Professor of Management at Federation University Australia and Honorary Professor at IER, talked about the 'Early Lessons and Promising Workforce Practices from COVID-19' at a webinar hosted by the AARP, the World Economic Forum and the OECD. The webinar is part of their Living, Learning & Earning Longer series. Listen to the recording .

The COVID pandemic has exposed middle-class self-employed people who have lost work to the very low rates of benefit available on Universal Credit in the UK (even including the supplement recently added by the Treasury). Envious eyes have looked across the Channel to Germany where support for the unemployed is so much more generous.

In a recent edition of Radio 4鈥檚 programme, Professor Noel Whiteside described the historical origins of the very different systems of social insurance found in both countries.

As an invited panel speaker Sally-Anne Barnes joined the on 28 October, organised by the Municipality of Porto through the Cidade das Profiss玫es in Portugal.

The panel comprising Jaana Kettunen, Daniela Louren莽o, Lu铆s Sottomayor, Artur Queir贸z and Gregoire Evequoz discussed how to keep a professional employable.

Sally-Anne drew upon recent research for the European Commission on undertaken with Jaana Kettunen from the Finnish Institute for Educational Research.

The panel was hosted by Carolina Maria de Bessa Ferreira from Cidade das Profiss玫es and moderated by Teresa Espassandim, a specialist in vocational psychology and career development.

Erika Kispeter gave a talk at the Westminster Higher Education Policy Conference online event entitled 鈥楾he graduate labour market post COVID-19' on 20 October 2020. The conference focused on how university careers services, employers and governments should prepare students for employment in the UK in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Erika鈥檚 talk on the 'The impact of postgraduate qualifications on employment prospects' drew on the results of the recently completed research project 'Degrees of Advantage? A longer-term investigation of the careers of UK graduates', the latest stage of Futuretrack, IER鈥檚 longitudinal study of graduate careers. The study follows a cohort of UK graduates who started their university education in 2006.

Organised by , and , Sally-Anne Barnes gave a keynote address on 'The 鈥渄istance travelled鈥� approach: Measuring results towards employability' at the ESF+ Data Network meeting, 21 October. The meeting brought together representatives from EU member states and the European Commission to explore data collection methods for quality monitoring.

Sally-Anne's presentation included evidence from recent work with Sally Wright on distance travelled models. It provided some context for the event, which also included presentations from Paul Geraghty (ESF-funded Social Inclusion and Community activation Programme, Ireland) and 艁ukasz Mikulec (Ministry of Development Funds and Regional Policy, Poland).