Dr Richard Garrett, Senior Research Manager
Email: richard.garrett@ukces.org.uk
Tel: 01709 774824
Biography
Joining the UK Commission on 1st April 2008, Richard worked previously for the SSDA for four years as a Senior and Principal Research Adviser. Prior to this he was a Research Fellow at the Sports Industries Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University, investigating sports management and policy, and the economic impact of sport and leisure. After completing his PhD in 2001 in the organisational behaviour of voluntary sports organisations at the University of Sheffield, Richard lectured at the University of Southampton. His first degree is from Loughborough University.
Areas of Expertise and Interest
• Organisational behaviour
• High performance working
• Voluntary organisations
• Qualitative methods.
Current Responsibilities
• Managing the National Strategic Skills Audit for England 2011
• Developing the UK Commission's evidence base on the Value of Skills
• Skills Utilisation and High Performance Working
• Representing the UK Commission’s interests in the Workplace Employment Relations Survey 2011
Previous Projects
• Skills for Jobs: Today and Tomorrow. The National Startegic Skills Audit for England 2010
• The Economic Value of Intermediate Vocational Qualifications
• High Performance Working: Developing A Survey Tool
• SSA evaluation 2007-8
• Working Futures 2007-17 and 2004-14
• Sector Skills Almanacs for the UK, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
• Forecasting employment and skills needs of the UK 2006-2021 to include the Olympics 2012
• Employer Engagement
• Skills Abroad: A Comparative Assessment International Policy Approaches to Skills
Selected Publications
• Garrett, R., Campbell, M., and Mason, G. (2010) The Value of Skills: An Evidence Base. The UK Commission for Employment and Skills, Wath-Upon Dearne (forthcoming).
• Campbell M and Garrett R (2004) The UK Skills and Productivity Agenda: The Evidence base for the SSDA's Strategic Plan 2005-2008.
• Garrett R (2004) The Response of Voluntary Sports Clubs to Sport England's Lottery Funding: Cases of Compliance, Change and Resistance. Managing Leisure, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 13-29.
• Nichols G, Taylor P, James M, Garrett R, Holmes K, King L, Gratton, Kokolakakis (2005) Voluntary Activity in UK Sport. Voluntary Action, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 31-53.
• Garrett R, Taylor P and Martin C (2004) Best practice from Sport England's Benchmarking Service. London: Sport England.
• Garrett R and Gratton C (2004) The Development of Medal Winning Elites: A literature review for UK Sport. London: UK Sport.