Welcome to SKOPE

The Centre for Skills, Knowledge, and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) focuses on policy and practice at the intersection of education, skills, and employment.

Its central aim is to examine the links between the acquisition and use of skills and knowledge, production and product strategies, and economic performance – be it of individuals, organisations or countries.

Our research

E&T for the climate

This research theme explores how skills formation systems need to adapt due to the impact of climate change

Social & epistemic justice

This research theme examines justice and equality across global E&T systems

Employability

Political skills economy

This research theme unpacks the relationship between skills formation and broader international political economies

Tertiary E&T landscapes

This research theme explores the intersection of policy and practice in tertiary systems and the blurred boundaries between TVET and HE

Podcasts 

SkOP ¦ Season 2 – Episode 6 ¦ A Reflection on Season 2

  Produced by Ashmita Randhawa (@Rand_Ash) and James Robson (@elpug). Edited by Laura Dong. Music composed and performed by ...

SkOP ¦ Season 2 – Episode 5 ¦ The Future of Technical Education

  Produced by Ashmita Randhawa (@Rand_Ash) and James Robson (@elpug). Edited by Laura Dong. Music composed and performed by ...

SkOP ¦ Season 2 – Episode 4 ¦ The Future of Work

  Produced by Ashmita Randhawa (@Rand_Ash) and James Robson (@elpug). Edited by Laura Dong. Music composed and performed by ...

Grant funding (ESRC and others)

SKOPE Research Papers

SKOPE Associates

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Projects with policy impact

Our team

Dr James Robson

Dr James Robson

Job title - Director

Dr Xin Xu

Dr Xin Xu

Job title - Deputy Director and Departmental Lecturer in Higher/Tertiary Education

Professor Ewart Keep

Professor Ewart Keep

Job title - Emeritus Professor

Éireann Attridge

Éireann Attridge

Job title - Research Assistant

Publications and News

Comparing policies, participation and inequalities across UK post-16 education and training landscapes

A new report by the Education Policy Institute (EPI) and the Oxford University Centre for Skills, Knowledge and Organisational ...

The Skills Revolution – can lifelong learning save the UK economy?

This paper was presented at an event, ‘The Skills Revolution: can lifelong learning save the UK economy?’, jointly organised by NEON, ...

The Value of the Humanities: Understanding the Career Destinations of Oxford Humanities Graduates

In the largest study of its kind, this report followed the career destinations of over 9,000 Oxford humanities graduates aged between ...

Skills alignment and ‘matching’ – easy to specify, hard to deliver?

This paper represents the latest in a line of papers and think pieces that the author has prepared on this topic – for the UK ...

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