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Learning During the First Three Years of Postgraduate Employment

  • Start date: 01 January 2001
  • End date: 30 June 2005

This project comprises a longitudinal study of the learning of 30 accountants, 30 engineers and 30 nurses at the start of their careers, using four two-day visits to each learner’s workplace over a three-year period; and an action research component, building on the first year’s research, which involved eight employer partners and two visits to a second group of about 50 learners. It investigates what is being learned, how it is being learned, the factors affecting the level and direction of learning effort, and the use and extension of prior knowledge and generic skills brought into employment from higher education and other life experience. Collaborating organisations include around a dozen employers, two professional organisations and four universities. The outcomes will contribute to evidence-based practice in the management and support of newly graduated and/or newly qualified employees; theories of informal learning in ‘apprenticeship’ and other workplace contexts; understanding of the transition from higher education into employment; and training materials for future researchers studying workplace learning

Grant holder

Professor Michael Eraut

Programme name

None

Co - applicants

Grey

S Steadman

Professor Frederick James Maillardet

Dr C Miller

Grant amount

£808,828.06

Grant reference

L139251073

Institution

University of Sussex

Discipline

Education

Grant type

Research Grant