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Dr Tim Bickerstaffe

Senior Lecturer

Tim joined PRI in 2005 and has experience of working in different research contexts, including government policy consultations in the UK and Europe, NGO lobbying and campaigning, and policy evaluation research. At PRI Tim has chiefly been involved in evaluating active labour market policies and interventions. He also leads the postgraduate research methods course in the Faculty of Business and Law at Leeds Beckett University. Areas of expertise:

Summary

2009-2010 Department for Children, Schools and Families Evaluation of Entry to Learning Pilots
2008-2010 Institute for Enterprise, Leeds Beckett University
Evaluation of the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
2009 - UK Commission for Employment and Skills Review of Best Practice in Teaching and Assessing Employability Skills
2008 - Department for Work and Pensions
International Review of Performance Management
Systems in Public Employment Service
2007 - Department for Work and Pensions
Factors Influencing Social Mobility
2006 - Department for Work and Pensions
Working Neighbourhood Pilots
2005 - Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Social Research in Bradford

Qualifications

BA (Hons) 1:1 Politics and Sociology, University of Leeds
PhD Sociology, University of Leeds

0113 81 29150
T.Bickerstaffe@leedsbeckett.ac.uk
Rose Bowl, Rb513, City Campus

Leeds Business School

Selected Outputs

Bickerstaffe T; Devins DM; Walton F; Kelsey S; Sutton M; Hooley T; Hutchinson J (2012) Employer practice in progressing lowpaid staff [Online]. UK Commission for Employment and Skills.

Available from: https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20140108090250/http://www.ukces.org.uk/assets/ukces/docs/publications/employer-practice-in-progressing-low-paid-staff.pdf
Devins D; Bickerstaffe T; Nunn A; Mitchell B; McQuaid R; Egdell V; Lindsay C (2011) The Role of Skills from Worklessness to Sustainable Employment with Progression [Online]. UK Commission for Employment and Skills.

Available from: http://www.ukces.org.uk/assets/ukces/docs/publications/evidence-report-38-the-role-of-skills.pdf
Nunn A; Mailand M; Leshke J; Bickerstaffe T (2011) The Role of Skills from Worklessness to Sustainable Employment with Progression: International Case Study Reports [Online]. UK Commission for Employment and Skills.
Nunn A; Bickerstaffe T; Jassi S; Wymer P (2010) Early effects of the economic downturn on the Welfare to Work System in deprived areas (WP83) [Online]. Department for Work and Pensions.
Nunn A; Bickerstaffe T; Mitchell B (2010) International Review of Performance Management Systems in Public Employment Services [Online]. Department for Work and Pensions.

Available from: http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rports2009-2010/rrep616.pdf
Nunn A; Bickerstaffe T; Hogarth T; Bosworth D; Green A; Owen D (2010) Postcode selection? Employers' use of area and address-based information shortcuts in recruitment decisions [Online]. Norwich: The Stationary Office.

Available from: http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/report_abstracts/rr_abstracts/rra_664.asp
NUNN A; BICKERSTAFFE T; JASSI S; HALLIDAY S (2009) The Employability Skills Project [Online]. Wath-upon-Dearne: UKCES.
Nunn A; Bickerstaffe T; Wymer P (2009) Explaining Levels of Customer Satisfaction with First Contact with Jobcentre Plus: results of qualitative research with Jobcentre Plus Staff [Online]. Department of Work and Pensions.
Dewson S; Casebourne J; Darlow A; Bickerstaffe T; Fletcher D; Gore T; Krishnan S (2007) Evaluation of the Working Neighbourhoods Pilot: Final report [Online]. Leeds, UK: Department for Work and Pensions.
Darlow A; Bickerstaffe T; Burden T; Green J; Jassi S; Johnson S; Kelsey S; Purcell M; South J; Walton F (2005) Researching Bradford: A review of social research on Bradford District [Online]. Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Available from: http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/researching-bradford-review-social-research-bradford-district