Research reports

HECSU has published a range of reports on research and development projects that it has funded or co-funded. Please use the links below to access a description and a copy of the report as a pdf.

• Graduate retention and migration in the West of England region (2009)
• Why Work Experience matters! (2009)
• What do graduates do? (2009 )
• How are Higher Education Career Services Experiencing the Recession? (September 2009)

Futuretrack Reports

• Futuretrack Stage 2 Report Plans, aspirations and realities: taking stock of higher education and career choices one year on (Nov 09)
• Futuretrack Stage1 Summary (2008)
• Applying for Higher Education - the diversity of career choices, plans and expectations ( Stage 1 Report 2008)
• Applying for Higher Education - Career Choices and Plans (Preliminary Stage 1 Report 2007)
• Careers Decision-making and Career Development of Part-time Higher Education Students
• Part-time undergraduates in higher education: a literature review (2009)
• Student Volunteering: A National Profile

Graduate Market Trends (GMT). Quarterly publication with information on and research into the graduate labour market, graduate careers and other higher education issues.

• Graduate Market Trends (Summer 10)
• Graduate Market Trends (Spring 10)
• Graduate Market Trends (Winter 09/10)
• Graduate Market Trends (Autumn 09)
• Graduate Market Trends (Summer 09)
• Graduate Market Trends (Spring 09)
• Graduate Market Trends (Winter 08/09)
• Graduate Market Trends (Autumn 08)
• Higher Degrees: Postgraduate Study in the UK 2000/01 to 2005/06

Putting Research Outcomes into Practice (PROP)

• Values at Work
• Stop and Measure the Roses
• Break-out or Break-up?
• Career pathways for graduates into the voluntary/community sector
• Working class students and the career decision-making process

What Do Graduates Do?

• What Do Graduates Do? Nov 09 
• What Do Graduates Do? Nov 08
• What Do Graduates Do? 2008
• What Do Graduates Do? 2006
• What Do Graduates Do? Scotland 2008
• What Do Graduates Do? Scotland 2007
• What Do Masters Graduates Do? 2007

• Graduates' First Destinations by Age, Ethnicity and Gender (2006)
• Learning Through Work Placements and Beyond (2006)
• Credit-bearing Careers Education (2006)
• Employability and Career Progression for Full-time UK Masters Students (2006) 
• A Systematic Literature Review of Research into Career-related Interventions for Higher Education (2005)
• Managing E-guidance Interventions Within HE Careers Services (2004) 
• Seven Years On (2004)
• HE Careers Services & Diversity (2003)
• Career Services: Technology and the Future (2001)
• Working Out (1999)
• Moving On (1999)

Further research reports published by or with other organisations:

• Towards an Open and Competative European Area for Research Careers (2008)
• What Do Foundation Degree Graduates Do? - Plymouth (2007)
• Class of '99 (2005)
• Delivering Quality (2005)

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