Dr Susannah Constable, Research Manager
Email: Susannah.constable@ukces.org.uk
Tel: 0207 8818933
Biography
Susannah joined the UK Commission for Employment and Skills in July 2009. Prior to this she worked for two years as a researcher at The Work Foundation, leading research projects into business perceptions of job quality, and employer demand for skills. She was also a key researcher on a programme analysing high performance leadership in the private sector. These projects involved the use of both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. In addition, Susannah has also worked for other think tanks; the Centre for Cities and the Social Market Foundation. She holds a doctorate in History from Trinity College, Cambridge University, where she also gained an MA and an MPhil in History. She is also currently completing an MSc in Social Research Methods at London Metropolitan University.
Areas of Interest
- Employer demand for skills
- Labour Market Information
- Job quality and its relationship to skills
- Large scale surveys
- Qualitative research techniques
- Spatial and GIS analysis of skills and employment.
Current Responsibilities
- Project management of the 2009 National Employer Skills Survey Report.
Selected Publications
Reports:
Constable S and Touloumakos AK (2009) Satisfying Employer Demand for Skills. The Work Foundation, London.
Coats D, Constable S, Bevan S and Mahdon M (forthcoming, 2009) Good Jobs. Health and Safety Executive Research Report Series. HSE, London.
Tamkin P, Constable S and Person G (forthcoming, 2009) Leading for High Performance. The Work Foundation, London.
Articles:
Constable S and Morris K (2009) ‘Collaboration and Local Skills Policy in the UK’. eGovMonitor, London.
Constable S (2009) ‘Government training schemes: small firms' training needs are misunderstood’, in Training Magazine (also reprinted in Personnel Today Online, March 2009).
Book chapters:
Constable S (2008) ‘Newspapers and their Publishers during the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis’ in Hinks J and Armstrong C (eds.) Book Trade Connections from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries. British Library, London.