Professor Linda Clarke is co-Director of the Centre for the Study of the Production of the Built Environment (ProBE), University of Westminster, London. She is expert to the European Construction Social Dialogue Working Group, Vocational Education and Training (VET) and Youth, and was recently awarded the 2022 VET researcher excellence award by the European Commission. She has long experience of comparative research across Europe on VET, employment, wage relations, equality, and labour, especially in the construction sector. Her recent research focuses on climate change and includes: Inclusive Vocational Education and Training for Low Energy Construction (VET4LEC), covering 10 European countries. Publications include: ‘Why radical transformation is necessary for gender equality and a zero carbon European construction sector’, in Gender, intersectionality and Climate Institutions in Industrialized States, Routledge 2021 (with Melahat Sahin-Dikmen); Knowledge, Skills, Competence in the European Labour Market: What’s in a Vocational Qualification?, with Brockmann M. and Winch C., Routledge, 2011