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Investigating the role of lifelong learning in promoting economic competitiveness and social cohesion.
Head of Centre: Professor Andy Green
The Centre for Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies (LLAKES) researches the connections between learning and the promotion of economic competitiveness and social cohesion.
Aims
We aim to work with policymakers, education and training professionals, employers, trade unions and other interested parties to improve the way in which national and international research evidence is shared and used.
Funders
LLAKES Centre has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and hosted by the UCL Institute of Education since 2008.
We welcome contributions through our website and attendance at our open seminars from anyone interested in our research programme.
- Our staff
Director of Centre
Andy Green
Deputy Director
Germ Janmaat, Theme Leader (Theme Three)
Centre staff
Claire Callender, Project Leader
Alison Fuller, Project Leader
David Guile, Project Leader
Francis Green, Theme Leader (Theme Two)
Geoff Mason, Project Leader
Lucinda Platt, Project Leader
Ingrid Schoon, Theme Leader (Theme One)
Martin Weale, Project Leader
Susanne Wiborg, Project LeaderHonorary LLAKES Professor
Karen Evans
Lorna UnwinResearch Officers
Golo Henseke
Nicola PensieroAssociated staff
Helen Cheng, Visiting Research Associate
Ian Craig, Visiting Professor (linked partly to LLAKES)
Richard Dorsett, Contributing Academic
Ann Margaret Doyle, Visiting Research Associate
Sam Duncan, Contributing Academic
Alan Felstead, Visiting Professor
Susan Halford, Contributing Academic
Bryony Hoskins, Contributing Academic
Avril Keating, Contributing Academic
Pauline Leonard, Contributing Academic
Kate Lyle, Contributing Academic
Michela Franceschelli, Contributing Academic
Rachel Wilde, Contributing Academic
Andrew Jenkins, Contributing Academic
Ann-Charlotte Teglborg, Contributing Academic
Joshua Ka Ho Mok, Contributing Academic
Geoff Mason, Visiting Professor
Peter Mayo, Visiting Professorial Fellow
Rebecca Riley, Contributing Academic
Peter Taylor-Gooby, Contributing Academic
Anna Vignoles, Contributing AcademicFind more about our researchers, publications, activities, groups and themes: UCL Research Portal, IRIS
- Research
Key areas of research
- Social and cultural foundations of learning, knowledge production and transfer, and innovation, within the context of a changing economy, and
- Effects of knowledge and skill distribution on income equality, social cohesion and competitiveness.
We have a programme of multi-disciplinary and mixed method research which addresses these issues at the level of the individual life course, through studies of city-regions and sectors in the UK, and through comparative analysis across OECD countries.
Themes
Our work at the LLAKES Centre (Phase 2) is organised around three Themes:
Theme 1: Youth, Inter-generational Mobility, and Civic Values
Leader: Ingrid Schoon; with Alison Fuller, Andy Green, David Guile, Bryon Hoskins, Germ Janmaat, Pauline Leonard, and Martin Weale.
Theme 2: Learning, Work and the Economy
Leader: Francis Green; with Alan Felstead, Alison Fuller, Duncan Gallie, Susan Halford, David Guile, Geoff Mason, and Anna Vignoles.
Theme 3: Education, Inequality and Social Cohesion
Leader: Germ Janmaat, with Rebecca Allen, Andy Green, Francis Green, Bryony Hoskins, Lucinda Platt, Peter Taylor-Gooby, and Anna Vignoles.
See more about LLAKES research and publications:
- LLAKES website
- Featured research
- UCL Research Portal, IRIS to find more about our researchers, publications, activities, groups and themes.
