Question 01
Which skills signals best anticipate changes in labour-market demand?
Research centre · GHC · Priority portfolio
Global Human Capital & Future Skills Research Center
Produce evidence on changing labour markets, workforce transformation and future skills systems.
Mandate & purpose
Why this centre matters.
Produce evidence on changing labour markets, workforce transformation and future skills systems. The Global Human Capital & Future Skills Research Center is a priority centre mandate within GRS Group. Its purpose is to connect credible research on people, work and skills with the decisions, institutions and communities that can use it.
Portfolio status: Priority portfolio. This describes the centre’s research direction and does not claim a staffed programme or completed projects.
Research agenda
Priority questions to investigate.
Question 02
How can education and employers connect training pathways with real work outcomes?
Question 03
What evidence helps institutions plan workforce transition and talent systems?
Thematic scope
Seven interconnected domains.
The themes below provide a starting scope. Individual studies would narrow their questions, populations, geography and methods in a written project brief.
- Human capital
- Future of work
- Workforce transformation
- Skills intelligence
- TVET and workforce development
- Talent systems
- Labour-market research
Evidence programme
How the centre would work.
Map the evidence
Skills intelligence, workforce evidence and comparative studies for capability and talent decisions. The first step is to establish what is known, where evidence is weak and which decisions require better information.
Build meaningful indicators
Identify data sources, definitions and limitations relevant to people, work and skills. Any comparison should account for local context and avoid unsupported rankings.
Translate into action
Co-develop practical options with employers, education institutions and workforce policy bodies; specify who can act, what resources are needed and how outcomes could be reviewed.
Knowledge products
Outputs matched to the question.
Depending on a project’s scope and review requirements, possible outputs include evidence briefs, comparative studies, indicator notes, policy briefs, institutional guidance and research reports. Outputs are added to the publications section only after completion and approval.
See the Group publication approachPartnership & participation
Build the agenda with relevant institutions.
Potential collaborators include employers, education institutions and workforce policy bodies. Partnership proposals can focus on a defined evidence gap, a comparative study, a joint publication or a practical research system. Researchers and reviewers can register their interest through the central GRS network.
Governance & quality
One shared standard of care.
A project would be scoped, scientifically reviewed and assessed for ethics, data protection, conflicts of interest and publication quality before external release. Sensitive, human-participant or sector-specific work requires safeguards and permissions suited to the study.
Governance and institutional trustWork with GRS
Build evidence in people, work and skills.
Discuss a research, strategy or institutional challenge with the Group, or join the expert network supporting its specialised centres.
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