Dr Christian Calvillo and Dr Hannah Corbett
Principal Investigators
University of Strathclyde
Aim
This project aims to inform understanding and decision-making within industry clusters and across wider policy stakeholders including Government officials and industry networks around the jobs and skills implications of decarbonising UK industry clusters. Drawing on the findings of IDRIC project MIP 9.7 Labour market and other wider economy challenges in decarbonising the UK’s industry clusters (LAB CLUSTER), this Impact Accelerator project will share analysis and insights on the impact of current labour supply constraints on industrial decarbonisation efforts and the wider economy, including insights on the location and nature of labour demand and the potential movement of workers. The project will also afford opportunities for collaboration with industry partners to co-develop future research agendas that can contribute to accelerating progress towards industrial decarbonisation.
To realise its aim, the work will be underpinned by four objectives as follows:
- To strengthen understanding within Track 1 and Track 2 clusters around the latest evidence base on labour supply constraints and their impact on industrial decarbonisation project delivery and wider economy outcomes.
- To identify useful ways in which industry clusters can use this evidence and analysis to shape future project planning in relation to jobs and skills requirements.
- To identify and leverage opportunities to engage the research findings with wider policy mechanisms including the CCSA Skills Working Group and the Green Jobs Delivery Group.
- To work with industry partners to identify knowledge gaps around labour, jobs and skills issues regarding industrial decarbonisation and how they can be addressed by future collaborative research.
The project will draw directly on the evidence and analysis generated by MIP 9.7 which has identified and seeks to bridge an important knowledge gap around how persisting labour market supply constraints and other cost pressures (e.g., continuing energy price volatility) may impact decarbonisation project delivery and sectoral/wider economy outcomes.
Associated Outputs
