Professor Anne Green

• PhD in Employment Research, University of Warwick
• MLitt in Geography, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
• BA (First Class Honours) in Geography, University College London

Anne joined the University of Birmingham in June 2017 from the Institute for Employment Research (IER) at the University of Warwick. A geographer by background, Anne has substantial experience of researching employment change (by sector, occupation and geography), non-employment, skills, regional and local labour market issues, inclusive growth, migration and commuting, and associated policy issues.

Current and recent research concerns:

• Growth sectors
• Inclusive growth
• Labour migration and spatial mobility
• Skills and local skills strategies
• Employment change
• Technological change and implications for employment, skills and training
• The geography of employment and worklessness
• Transitions into and within employment
• Young people and the labour market
• Social networks and place attachment
• Changing economic geographies
• Local funding flows
• Policy evaluation

Most of Anne’s research is applied in nature. Funders have included various Government Departments and agencies and other national and sub-national agencies. Internationally, Anne’s research has been funded by the OECD and the European Commission.

Anne has contributed to evaluations of welfare-to-work programmes and area-based initiatives and led the national evaluation of the City Strategy initiative. In 2016 she led a study on inclusive growth for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation focusing on international cities. She has also undertaken research funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on linking people in poverty to jobs, low pay and progression, what labour market projections mean for different ethnic groups, and on young people and place attachment. She has worked on projects concerned with harnessing growth sectors for poverty reduction, local skills strategies, productivity and low pay, and changing economic geographies. Currently she is a Co-Investigator on the UKRI-funded Local Policy Innovation Partnership Hub.

Anne has previous experience of teaching on post-experience courses on employment and labour market research.

I am interested in supervising PhD students in the following areas:

• Spatial dimensions of employment change  and local labour market issues
• Skills
• Migration and geographical mobility
• Inclusive growth

Research interests

• Employment change (by sector, occupation and geography), non-employment, skills, regional and local labour market issues, skills strategies, inclusive growth and alternative approaches to economic development, migration and commuting, urban and regional development, evaluation and associated policy issues

Selected current and recent projects

• Local Policy Innovation Partnership Hub (UKRI)
• Evaluation of Household Support Fund (Birmingham City Council)
• Universal Credit, Good Work and Progression (Nuffield Foundation)
• Youth Transitions to Good Employment: East Birmingham and North Solihull (Nuffield Foundation)
• Changing Working Patterns and High-skilled Labour Mobility (ESRC)
• Improving Public Funding Allocations to Reduce Inequality (ESRC)
• Underemployment among Racialised Communities (West Midlands Combined Authority)
• Megatrends in the Midlands (Midlands Engine)
• Lessons from International Case Studies on Local Devolution (CIPFA)
• Economic Geographies of the West Midlands (West Midlands Combined Authority)
• Local funding flows for Young People’s Employment and Skills (Youth Futures Foundation)
• West Midlands Regional Economic Development Institute (Research England)
• Evaluation of Connecting Communities (West Midlands Combined Authority)
• Fair Work in the Foundational Economy (Bevan Foundation)
• Innovative Healthcare in the Marches (Marches Local Enterprise Partnership)
• Productivity from Below: Addressing the productivity challenges of microbusinesses (ESRC)
• Employment Support Framework: Desk-based research (West Midlands Combined Authority)
• Business, Professional and Financial Services outside London (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)
• From productivity to prosperity: Inclusive growth for the West Midlands (ESRC)
• UK Futures Programme: Longer-term Evaluation (Productivity Insights Network)
• Skills Advisory Panels Feasibility Study (Department for Education)
• Investigation into the Foundations of Productivity for Business, Professional and Financial Services in the West Midlands Combined Authority Area (West Midlands Combined Authority)
• Rural Workforce Response to the NHS Workforce Strategy to 2027 (Health Education England via United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust)
• Local Skills Study (Department for Education)
• Do low-paid workers gain when firm productivity increases? (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
• Migration in the UK Construction and Built Environment Sector (Construction Industry Training Board)
• Precarious pathways to employment for young people? Unpaid, temporary and involuntary part-time work in transitions from education to employment (ESRC)
• Harnessing growth sectors for poverty reduction (ESRC)
• International policy and practice review: how do cities lead an inclusive growth agenda?(Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
• QUINNE – promoting understanding of how better work leads to innovation and more and better jobs (Horizon 2020, European Commission)
• UK Skills System – three evidence papers on (1) training, employability and gaps in provision, (2) how aligned are public policy and employer views of evidence provision, and (3) local skills traps (Skills and Lifelong Learning Evidence Review, Foresight, Government Office for Science)
• Local job creation (OECD)
• ICT4EMPL – ICT for Employment (European Commission)
• CROWDEMPLOY - Emerging forms of ICT-enabled employment organisation and finance, and the potential impact on employability in the networked society (European Commission)
• Talent Match Evaluation and Learning Contract (contributor to a larger project commissioned by the Big Lottery)

Anne currently holds/ has held a range of expert roles:

• Member of ESRC ‘Creating Opportunities, Improving Outcomes’ External Advisory Group (2023-2024)
• Member of Health Foundation Technical Advisory Group for ‘The evaluation of economies for healthier lives’ initiative (2023-2024)
• Member of the Technical Advisory Group for the Evaluation of the Shared Prosperity Fund Evaluation (2023-2024)
• Member of the Advisory Panel Business Commission West Midlands (2023-2024_
• Member of Advisory Group for DSIT Attraction and Retention in R&D Career project (2023f)

• Member of the DSIT R&I Workforce Advisory Group (2021-2023)
• Member of Advisory Group for DSIT Attraction and Retention in R&D Careers project (2023f)
• Member of the Technical Advisory Group for the MHCLG Evaluation of the Shared Prosperity Fund (2023-2024)
• Member of the Advisory Panel Business Commission West Midlands (2023f)
• Member of the Work, Health and Labour Market Thematic Panel for the West Midlands Combined Authority (2024f)
• Member of the Advisory Group for The Great South West Independent Economic Review (2024)

• Member of the BEIS/DSIT R&I Workforce Advisory Group (2022-2024)
• Member of West Midlands Local Skills Improvement Plan (LSIP) Operational Board
• Member of DCMS Expert Advisory Group Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Evaluation
• Member of Employment Support Framework Taskforce for the West Midlands Combined Authority
• Member of Technical Reference Group for the West Midlands Combined Authority Productivity and Skills Commission (Lead on Skills)
• Expert for the OECD’s Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) programme
• Expert Panel member – UK Commission for Employment and Skills
• Lead Expert Group member for Government Office for Science Foresight project on ‘The Future of Manufacturing’
• Contributor to Government Office for Science project on ‘The Future of Skills and Lifelong Learning’
• Expert Panel member – Department for Communities and Local Government Economic Regeneration Panel
• Advisory Committee/ Network member for Royal Society of Arts’ Commission on Inclusive Growth  and member of Joseph Rowntree Foundation Network on Inclusive Growth
• Member of the Royal Geographical Society Policy Advisory Group
• Member of the Wolverhampton Skills and Employment Commission
• Member of West Midlands Combined Authority Employment Support Taskforce

Other professional positions:

• Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
• Fellow of the Regional Studies Association
• Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
  
  

Previous academic research positions at:

• Institute for Employment Research (IER), University of Warwick
• Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Cardiff
• Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), University of Newcastle upon Tyne