What the Skillset Research team does
Skillset's Research team provides the creative industries with vital skills intelligence to help ensure that it remains stable and competitive.
This involves measuring the size and shape of the industries, understanding the needs of employers and the workforce, investigating existing training provision and scoping out what the future holds.
Find out more about all these strands of the Research team's work below.
Size and shape of the creative industries
It is crucial for the industry and Government to understand the size and shape of the creative industries. Skillset takes a sector-specific approach to gathering this Labour Market Intelligence (LMI) using its Census and surveys
Read MoreSector Skills Assessments
Skillset conducts comprehensive UK-wide analysis of demand for skills in the Creative Media Industries and also for each UK nation. These Sector Skills Assessments inform and shape our priorities for the year ahead.
Read MoreFinding out what the workforce needs
Skillset's Workforce Surveys provide the most comprehensive profile of working life in the UK's creative sectors ever produced. Find out more here
Read MoreFinding out what employers need
Our work with industry is vital to tailor skills and training initiatives and direct investment efficiently.
Read MoreExploring futures
It is essential for Skillset to look to the future up to five to ten years hence and identify: drivers of industry change and demand for skills; and the skills implications of these drivers
Read MoreInvestigating training and qualification provision
The Research Team has commissioned a major study to map and analyse training and vocational provision relevant to the UK Creative Media and Fashion and Textiles Industries.
Read MoreUndertaking other research
From time to time Skillset undertakes research outside of its core research programme, in response to particular need, and when opportunities arise in the form of funding and partnerships
Read MoreMapping, Classifying, Defining
It is integral to Skillset's future work to develop with the creative industries a classification system for and fully endorsed by those industries. Skillset will be working with them to develop a full occupational and functional map
Read MoreIndex of publications
An index of all Skillset research publications available for you to download
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