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The Work and Employment Research Unit (WERU) conducts research into the broad area of the employment relationship. It has an established track record in delivering high quality, keenly priced, applied research for a wide a range of clients, for example Skills for the Millennium, the French Construction Ministry, the Office of Manpower Economics, European Social Fund, South East of England Development Agency, the Department of Health, Acas, the Department for Trade and Industry, the Low Pay Commission, Construction Industry Training Board, the TUC and the NHS Staff Council.

Our research values are to promote innovative and collaborative applied research activity and we are always pleased to consider research and consultancy projects for specific organisations in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

WERU is based in the University of Greenwich’s Business School and WERU, along with two other research clusters, together submitted their research for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). The RAE result (announced in December 2008) indicated that 60 per cent of the Business School’s research was 2* and above (internationally recognised) and a further 30 per cent was 1* (nationally recognised). Five per cent was deemed to be world leading. In addition, in further feedback it was said that the ‘strategic emphasis on policy focus, and influencing national and regional government is reflected in funding sources and is assessed as of a standard of international excellence’.