Centre for Researching Education and Labour

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Academic Programmes

The REAL Centre is a space for new researchers to train in various specialities, such as curriculum, sociology of education, policy development and analysis, political economy of education, statistics, and ethnography while contributing to a broader multi-disciplinary research agenda at the same time.

The current research streams in the Centre for Researching Education and Labour include:

  • Occupational and Professional knowledge;
  • Economy and Education Relationships;
  • Industrial Policy, Industrial Relations, 
  • Skill Formation Systems;
  • Political Economy of Skill;
  • Vocational Pedagogy;
  • Sectors and Skills;
  • Youth Unemployment;
  • Barriers to Work and Learning;
  • Youth/Work Transitions;
  • Social Inequalities and Labour Markets;
  • Skills to support a green economy and
  • skills for sustainability within work.
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