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In early September, the UK and Saudi Government held a joint Great Futures Leadership Summit in London. It was the largest gathering of UK and Saudi Ministers and included the signing of a number of commercial deals between the UK and Saudi Arabia.

One of these deals was the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding that involves IER providing research, evaluation, training and advice to the Saudi Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development to support the Saudi Government鈥檚 Vision 2030.

IER has been awarded 拢1.5 million by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) to lead a major study on job quality and health. Led by IER鈥檚 Director Professor Chris Warhurst, the project will explore how job design affects workers' mental and physical well-being. Poor job quality has been linked to long-term sickness absence and economic inactivity. For more information see the University of 糖心TV press release.

Dr Sangwoo Lee explores Understanding Society data to measure the multi-dimensional concept of job , and Graham Atwell revisits the .

Chris Warhurst, Jamelia Harris and Jeisson Cardenas Rubio of IER along with Strathclyde University colleague Pauline Anderson have published an article in a special issue of the . Using data from Scotland, their article 鈥� presents mixed findings.

Low employment quality and precarious employment have been associated with adverse mental health outcomes, yet the extent to which this association may be explained by the experience of unemployment 鈥渟carring鈥� has not yet been explored. Drawing on UK data the , assessed the links between individuals鈥� employment quality, unemployment history, and mental well-being and psychological distress. The results help further understanding of employment quality as a social determinant of health and highlight the need for both life course and gender-sensitive research in this area.