Research
Research programs and projects
Research programs
Access to tertiary education for rural Australians
Flinders University
Principal researcher: David Curtis
Adult literacy research program
The Adult Literacy Research Program (ALRP) was managed by NCVER on behalf of the former Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training, now Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). The ALRP was funded from 2002 until 2006.
An analysis of effective pathways from VET to higher education
University of Canberra
Principal researcher: Louise Watson
Building VET provider and workforce capability
Centre for Research in Education, Equity and Work (CREEW), University of South Australia
Principal researcher: Roger Harris
This program has been completed. The project used a consortium of researchers drawn from a number of institutions (the consortium approach). The aim of the consortium was to gather together the best available team to undertake the program of work.
Change, work and learning: aligning continuing tertiary education and training
Griffith University
Principal researcher: Stephen Billett
This program seeks to identify what models and practices of continuing tertiary education and training can best meet workplace demands and sustain Australian workers’ ongoing occupational competence and employability across their working lives.
Education, employment and the dynamics of working while at school
University of Canberra (NATSEM)
Principal researcher: Xiaodong Gong
Enhancing future productivity: The interdependence of workers, employers and VET
University of Sydney
Principal researcher: John Buchanan
The aim of this research project is to identify potential under-utilised pools of labour and ways in which VET initiatives, job networks, and labour market intermediaries can help overcome current and deepening labour supply constraints on economic growth.
Hurdling the great divide: Investigating enabling factors in AQF 5, 6 & 7 transitions in the construction industry
Industry currency and professional obsolescence what can industry tell us?
Victoria University
Principal researcher: Berwyn Clayton
Intergenerational mobility: new evidence from LSAY and HILDA data
University of NSW
Principal researcher: Gerry Redmond
Investigating the crisis: production workers? literacy and numeracy practices
University of Technology, Sydney
Principal researcher: Stephen Black
Low paid workers and VET: Increasing VET participation amongst lower paid workers over the life-cycle
Centre for Work + Life, University of South Australia
Principal researcher: Barbara Pocock
The program will examine ways in which lower paid and lower educated individuals on the lower rungs of occupational ladders can be motivated to increase their participation in VET.
Promoting social inclusion for disadvantaged groups through education and training
University of Melbourne
Principal researcher: Duncan McVicar
The research program encompasses research projects on a wide range of economic and social outcomes, at different stages of the life-course, and for a wide range of providers and at risk groups.
Securing their future: Older workers and the role of VET
Social Policy Evaluation, Analysis and Research Centre, Australian National University
Principal researcher: Chris Ryan
This research aims to examine the participation patterns in VET among older workers and the factors that influence these patterns.
Seeking the N in LLN
Oggi Consulting
Principal researcher: Tina Berghella
Social and economic outcomes for apprentices and trainees with disability
Centre for Research into Disability and Society, Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute
Principal researcher: Errol Cocks
This research examines participation of people with disability in apprenticeships and traineeships. It moves beyond consideration of participation rates to examine economic and social outcomes of apprenticeship and traineeship completions.
Tailoring VET to the emerging labour market
National Institute of Labour Studies, Flinders University
Principal researcher: Sue Richardson
This program has been completed. This research program provided a set of insightful and soundly-based evaluations of the expected evolution of the labour market for vocational skills, of how the VET system could best remain alert to the emerging changes and respond rapidly to them, and of the current fitness of the VET system to meet the requirements of the future.
The role of training in social inclusion: geographic and regional aspects
Monash University
Principal researcher: Chandra Shah
The program will investigate the contribution of education and training to social inclusion with a particular focus on its regional and geographical dimension. It will focus on the geographical and regional variation in the dispositions and capabilities of individuals and groups to make transitions through learning, training and work and across geographical locations on the principle of equity. It will examine how regional community factors and social capital affect these transitions.
VET participation and labour market outcomes
University of Melbourne
Principal researcher: Hielke Buddelmeyer
The focus of individual projects over the three-year research program will be to study the position of VET in relation to a number of labour market processes and specific sub-groups of the labour force.
Vocational education among Indigenous students and the choice of pathways
Charles Darwin Unviersity
Principal researcher: Don Fuller
Vocations: the link between post-compulsory education and the labour market
LH Martin Institute, University of Melbourne
Principal researcher: Leesa Wheelahan
This research program will contribute to social inclusion and productivity by providing insights on how to improve educational and occupational pathways and make better connections between education and work.
Workforce skills development and engagement in training through skill sets
TAFE Training and Education Support Industry Skills
Principal researcher: John Mills
Research projects
Individual inhouse research projects
NCVER's inhouse research and evaluation program undertakes projects which are strategic to the VET sector. These projects are developed and conducted by NCVER's research staff and are funded by NCVER after approval from the Board.
Individual managed research projects
NCVER, on behalf of the Australian Government and state and territory governments, co-ordinates and manages the National Vocational Education and Training Research and Evaluation (NVETRE) program. Under the NVETRE program, NCVER commissions research based upon the research priorities agreed to by the Ministerial Council for Vocational and Technical Education.
