CELMR Aims and Objectives

  • To provide a focus for the identification and implementation of high quality research projects in labour market economics
  • To make a substantive contribution both to academic understanding and to policy debate on labour market issues within the UK and the European Union.
  • To develop and evolve a coherent research agenda and create a framework for the acquisition of funding to undertake and expand the research agenda
  • To provide a structure within which interested individuals and groups can provide mutual support in advancing their research and create a structure within which young researchers can obtain help and advice
  • To create a structure conducive to postgraduate study
  • To provide a link with other scholars, commercial interests and governments in both the UK and European Union
  • To develop European and international links of the highest possible quality with a view to collaborative research and the exchange of personnel in order to establish a major focus of activity on a European scale