Defined role
Public name, role, capacity, contribution, and affiliation are disclosed only where verified and authorized.
Research NetworkDefined individual roles & governed collaboration
Research Network
WIL’s research community grows through named researchers, methodologists, practitioners, reviewers, and data contributors participating in defined roles. Participation does not confer fiduciary authority, endorsement, or approval of findings.
Research Fellow
Research design, analysis, authorship, replication, or documented review.
Industry Fellow
Nonfiduciary operational context, research questions, and domain challenge.
Technical Fellow
Methodology, data systems, tooling, and reproducible research infrastructure.
Contributor / Research Partner
Defined individual contributions or a separately substantiated institutional relationship.
How participation is represented
Individual roles and institutional relationships are different records and are never inferred from one another.
Substantiated relationship
An employer or university is not a WIL partner merely because one of its people participates.
No implied authority
Advisory, practitioner, reviewer, or contributor input does not approve findings or create fiduciary authority.
Areas seeking expertise
The founding projects below are active research questions, not completed findings or implied affiliations.
Skilled Workforce Taxonomy
Occupational classification · Skilled trades · Taxonomy engineering · NLP methods · Workforce research
Infrastructure Workforce Exposure Map
GIS · Labor economics · Infrastructure research · Energy and power · Data engineering
Vacancy Quality & Hiring Demand
Labor economics · Organizational research · Econometrics · Job-posting data · NLP methods
Consent, credit & correction
Public participation records follow a defined publication standard.
Public profiles are opt-in
Identity, role, contribution, affiliation wording, and permission to publish must be verified before a profile appears.
Contributions are described precisely
Authorship, review, advice, data contribution, and institutional partnership remain distinct forms of participation.
Consent can change
A participant may request correction or withdrawal of a public profile without rewriting the historical publication record.
Research participation
Participate
WIL is built with a research network. Applications are substantive and reviewed; submission does not imply acceptance, affiliation, or endorsement.