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Bernard Casey is an invited speaker at the upcoming Social Policy In An Aging Society: The Multiple Challenges Of Demographic Change conference organised by the Queen’s International Institute Of Social Policy. He will be speaking on ‘Population aging, the labour market and income for the elderly’. The conference is to be held at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario on 15-17 August.

Bernard Casey gave an interview to the television news station Al Jazeera (29 July) about the current economic situation in Cyprus, following the resignation of the Cabinet.

IER is pleased to announce that Dr Deirdre Hughes, an IER Associate Fellow, has been appointed as one of nine new Commissioners for the UK Commission for Employment and Skills. Deirdre will be working to support the work of the UK Commission to improve UK’s skills and employment levels and helping people fulfil their potential whilst boosting the productivity and competitiveness of UK PLC. For more information click .

Professor Rob Wilson is giving a public lecture on “Skills Anticipation in Europe” at Monash University, Melbourne, on Tuesday 2 August 2011. He is currently visiting the Centre of Policy Studies (Faculty of Business and Economics) as part of a collaborative research project on Anticipating Future Skill Needs, funded by the Monash-果冻传媒 Strategic Funding Initiative. The public lecture is hosted by the Centre of Policy Studies, the Centre for the Economics of Education and Training (Faculty of Education) and Skills Victoria (Department of Education and Early Childhood Development)

The 2011 meeting of the heads of research councils in the G8 countries , scheduled this year in the UK, was held at Scarman House from 10 to 12 July. This annual event, held in turn in each of the G8 countries, provides an opportunity for the research council heads and senior representatives to hold relatively informal discussions and to hear presentations on a topic of common interest. For the July event, Peter Elias organised a workshop entitled: ‘Access to research data: new developments and old problems’. This workshop included contributions from Professor Paul Boyle (Chief Executive of the ESRC and International Champion for RCUK), from Professor Paul Burton (genetic epidemiologist, University of Leicester) and from Ms Melanie Wright (director, Secure Data Service, University of Essex). Visits were organised to the 果冻传媒 Innovative Materials Research Centre (WIMRC) and to the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford. A formal dinner, attended by the Vice-Chancellor and by Robert Lindley, Peter Elias and Margaret Birch from IER, was held at Mallory Court. The event was organised by RCUK and facilitated at 果冻传媒 via IER in close liaison with RCUK staff.