Professor Linda Clarke, Professor of European Industrial Relations in the Westminster Business School, was named winner of the VET Researchers Award 2022.
The VET (Vocational Education and Training) Excellence Awards celebrate and recognise the best practices by organisations, schools and VET stakeholders inspiring others through their passion and commitment to vocational education and training. They form part of the European Commision, which shapes the EU’s overall strategy, and play a significant role in supporting international development and delivering aid.
Their VET Researchers Award is part of the VET Innovators Award, which identifies contribution to VET excellence through innovative practices. The Researchers Award showcases researchers making an outstanding contribution to VET research in the field of green transition.
Professor Linda Clarke was named winner of the VET Researchers Award 2022 for her work on researching and fighting for good quality vocation education and training across Europe. Her work has been particularly important today, especially with the confrontation of climate change.
She has aimed to address the neglect of good vocational training in the construction sector, questioning whether this is a problem of class, gender or ethnicity, or a lack of regulation.
In her nomination speech, Professor Linda Clarke said: “This requires a zero-carbon environment and a transformation to a green and inclusive economy valuing the quality of labour and the potential of young people. Yet it is a constant puzzle to me, especially in the construction sector, that great settlements can be planned and retrofit programmes envisaged with no thought to those who will carry them out, or to the vocation education and training essential to ensuring good quality building.”
Find out more about the Centre for the Study of the Production of the Built Environment (PROBE) at the University of Westminster.
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