Dr. Hilda (Hrafnhildur) Ragnarsdóttir is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Warwick. She completed her PhD at the Institute for Employment Research in 2026 at the University of Warwick, having been awarded with an international scholarship. The focus of the research is the impact of new technology on jobs and skills, the alignment of education and training with labour market needs and the role of social partners in forming labour market policy. Her thesis also analyses how the impact of historical path dependency and type of welfare regime shapes current policy approaches and provides labour market policy recommendations to address current policy challenges.
During her PhD, Hilda also taught politics and policy at the Politics and International Studies at Warwick and completed the Associate Fellow (AFHEA) for teaching in higher education.
Hilda has participated in various research projects on labour market affairs. They include country-based case studies on how to use labour market information systems to inform policy, commissioned by the DfE, how to improve labour market data for ONS and Skills England in collaboration with The Gatsby Foundation, and how to support workers with musculoskeletal condition (MSK) to increase labour market participation, commissioned by the Orthopaedic Research UK.
Prior to her PhD studies, Hilda was the Director of Performance Audits at the Icelandic National Audit Office, leading large scale research projects and audits on topics across the administration to provide recommendations for improvement for Parliament.