Turn access into insight
Our student communities offer a valuable window into the next generation entering fashion, retail and beauty. Combined with our specialist academic expertise and industry relationships, that creates opportunities for employers to explore the questions shaping their future workforce – from what attracts emerging talent to an employer to their expectations around careers, progression and the workplace.
Whether you need quick feedback on a specific question or want to collaborate on a more substantial piece of research, we'll work with you to find the right approach.
Three ways to work with us
Whether you’re looking for direct insight from emerging talent, want to explore a bigger workforce question or draw on specialist academic expertise, we can build a research partnership around the needs of your organisation.
Student Insight & Focus Groups
Hear directly from the next generation.
Explore the attitudes, expectations and experiences of emerging talent through student surveys, focus groups and targeted research activities. This could help you understand perceptions of your brand as an employer, workplace and progression expectations, career priorities and responses to employer propositions.
Research Partnerships
Explore the workforce questions that matter to your business.
Partner with us on research into the trends, challenges and opportunities affecting talent across fashion, retail and beauty. We can work with your organisation to explore a defined question and generate insight that supports better-informed workforce decisions. Work with our academic teams on commissioned research, collaborative studies and sector-wide studies.
Academic Collaboration
Bring specialist expertise to your business challenge.
Connect with our student and staff academic community to explore industry challenges, emerging ideas and areas of specialist knowledge through collaborative projects and research. Talk to us about your challenges, ideas and questions and we'll connect you with the right people and possibilities.
What could you learn?
What does emerging talent expect from employers?
Explore priorities around pay, benefits, flexibility, progression, workplace culture and development.
What makes an employer attractive to the next generation?
Understand awareness, perceptions and the factors influencing where emerging talent wants to work.
How are career expectations changing?
Explore preferred roles, career ambitions, progression expectations and attitudes towards different career pathways.
What skills does the next generation value?
Understand how emerging professionals perceive their own skills, development needs and preparedness for the workplace.
How does Gen Z respond to a particular idea or proposition?
Use focused student research to test an employer proposition, initiative or workforce idea with a relevant audience.
Understand what they want. Shape what they learn.
Turn insight into action. Work with us to help ensure emerging talent develops the skills, knowledge and experience your industry needs.
It’s a true collaboration between two organisations that have in common creating opportunities and opening doors for young people.
Andy, Director of Buying Operations, TJX Europe