GCRI · Future of Work and Skills
Mandate and publisher
Future of Work and Skills is a specialist platform of The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI). Its mandate is research on work, automation, skill formation and the adaptation of institutions to fast technological change. This page sets out who is responsible for the platform, what it is designed to do, how it differs from the Consortium’s shared learning programme, the limits of its role and its current operating state.
- STEM methods
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- Canonical methods this field applies
- Topics
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- Subject pages in the field
- Counterparts
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- Platforms in shared fields across the network
- Report series
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- Reports series it contributes to
Mandate and publisher in four parts.
Research on how work and skills change.
The platform exists to give the people who shape labour markets and education a shared, checkable account of change: what is happening to tasks, jobs and skills, who is affected and what responses have evidence behind them.
Scope
Work and skills, with their links to society and human development and to artificial intelligence.
Who takes part
Labour economists, educators, employers, workforce researchers and unions.
What it is designed to publish
Future-of-work briefs, skills transition research and learning pathways.
Who is responsible.
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) publishes the platform and answers for its content. GCRI Canada is the lead contracting organisation.
- Subject editors review topic pages and outputs before release, and record dissenting expert views.
- The Education and Skills chapter brings together specialists in education systems and skills formation within the platform.
- Rights, status and corrections are set out on trust, rights and status.
Subject research, distinct from shared learning.
Future of Work and Skills is a subject research site. Courses are hosted on Risk Academy, led by the Nexus Consortium, and GCRI’s own learning is on GCRI learning and courses; neither is duplicated here. Learning pathways published by the platform are research outputs that course providers may draw on; they are not courses or qualifications.
What the platform does not do, and where it stands.
- It does not regulate labour markets, set occupational standards or accredit education and training.
- It does not place, recruit or employ workers, and it gives no advice to individual employers or workers.
- Taking part or sponsoring research gives no authority over findings.
- Future of Work and Skills is an established platform. Its pages set out its scope and how it works, and its activities, records and services are published here as each one opens. Information and enquiries are open today; write to the contact form or see contact the specialist team.
Questions and answers.
Is the platform a separate organisation?
Can unions and employer bodies both take part?
Who governs labour policy questions?
Bring a method, a dataset or a question.
Information and enquiries are open today. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.
Legal documents.
Maps, data and figures on this site are shown for context and general information. They are not advice, forecasts or warnings; the limits of the information are set out in the Disclaimers and Data Notices.