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Photo by Ivan Samkov on Pexels.com Here at iCeGS, we are really excited about our revalidated MA programme that we are teaching from this September. To help support this we are running a series of webinars this summer for you to learn about our programme. July 11th 4pm – 5pm (BST) https://forms.office.com/e/FYideQZ0fm July 27th 4pm – 5pm (BST) https://forms.office.com/e/LhXxnb8KdC August 22nd…

Here at iCeGS we have been teaching an MA in Career Guidance since 2017. This year we have revalidated our programme meaning we have been able to make some key changes to build on our successes over the last 5 years and focus on what a career guidance course should be about in the future. Pending the last stage of University sign off we will have a whole new programme to teach from September 2023…

Towards a critical realist theory of labour market information – NICEC Journal

Photo by meo on Pexels.com I’ve recently had an article published in the NICEC Journal on theorising LMI. https://nicecjournal.co.uk/index.php/nc/article/view/404/407 In it, I try and set out what LMI is and what good LMI should give people developing their careers access to. In the article, I try and argue that LMI isn’t just stuff about the labour market that is “true” but also should cover…

LMI and Social Justice - #WeAreCareers podcast - Get to hear me talking to @meetsabiha and @WorldWebb

Yesterday, I was really pleased to be invited onto the #WeAreCareers podcast hosted by Chris and Sabiha. The podcast has been going from strength to strength and Sabiha and Chris run a really great show. Big thanks to them for asking me on. You can find the show through the CDI’s social media channels @theCDI Facebook Community of Practice (for CDI members):…

Photo by Buro Millennial on Pexels.com As most of you know my day job is teaching on the MA in Careers Education and Coaching at Derby Uni. We have some up-and-coming enquiry events for anyone interested in applying for the course starting in September 2022. These will be run as 1-hour webinar style events at the following times; 9th June (12 noon GMT) 7th July (4pm GMT) 8th August (7pm…

Come work with me! Job roles at iCeGS

As most of you who read this blog know I work at iCeGS at the University of Derby. We, very excitingly, have a couple of job roles out so do have a look below. It’s worth noting these are both researcher roles rather than teaching roles, the Senior Lecturer is really a researcher role at Senior Lecturer pay (i.e. pretty decent for a research role IMO). If anyone is interested I’d be happy to have…

Slides on Digital Technology and Career with @pigironjoe for the recent @ceric_ca conference

Recently I was very pleased to present at the CERIC run Cannexus Conference with Tristram Hooley about Digital Technology and careers. We were mainly talking about our chapter from the Handbook of Career Development and trying to sketch out some top-level thinking about how careers and digital technology are related. If people are interested here are the slides…

iCeGS Annual Lecture: Constructing contextualized theories in career guidance and counselling: A North-South intercultural dialogue.

Annual lecture International Centre for Guidance Studies (iCeGS) University of Derby Photo by Vlada Karpovich on Pexels.com We are pleased to invite you to this years iCeGS Annual lecture which will take place virtually on December 8th at 3.00 (GMT). This year’s lecture will be given by Dr Marcelo Alfonso Ribeiro from the University of Sao Paulo and his topic will be: Constructing…

HE Career Guidance and Digital Solutions in the Post-Pandemic Univeristy

Yesterday I was able to present some early findings from a research study I have been running looking at how HE careers practitioners use and have experienced digital technology through the pandemic and what signposts this creates for us for the future of digital delivery by careers services moving forward. The study so far has found a number of key tensions that exist which points forward to…

HE Career Guidance & Digital Solutions in The Post-Pandemic World

Over the last 12 months I’ve been running a research project looking at how HE careers professionals have been using digital technology during the pandemic and what we can learn about this in a (hopefully) post-pandemic world. On Thursday 15th July from 15.30 – 17.00 (BST) I will be running an entirely free dissemination event for anyone interested in hearing what I’ve found out and discussing…

The Oxford Handbook of Career Development

I’ve had the privilege to contribute a chapter (with Tristram Hooley) to the above handbook edited by Peter Robertson, Phil McCash and Tristram Hooley. In many ways the volume aims to be an update to Rethinking Careers Education and Guidance (Watts, Law, Killeen, Kidd, & Hawthorn, 1996). Here’s a bit from the first chapter; The inspiration and aims for the volume are set out, and the challenges…

New Article – Labour market information and social justice: a critical examination

I have just had a new article published in the International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance on LMI and social justice. It is available through Open Access so anyone should be available to download it. This is an article which I wrote with Karla Rogosic while she was working as an intern for iCeGS. In it we review a range of literature on LMI and explore how we could develop more…

New Article – Exploring critical perspectives on labour market information through the lens of elite graduate recruitment

I have just had a new article published in HIgher Education Quartlerly on graduate schemes as sources of LMI. It is available through Open Access so anyone should be available to download it. In this article I look at how graduate schemes discuss career and conclude that they see it as a ‘liminal’ experience that enables individuals to realise an authentic self. I use this to explore the…

An Intro to Digital Research for Careers Practitioners

I am presenting today at the CDI/ AGCAS Practitioner Research conference on the subject of Digital Research. Here are my slides for anyone who would like to look at them. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vQA0vcdKk51waxsXgP1BFxGYoOzpXue7gFoUyO-6rbDih06WyaDTs0I26YqR_SAcOO5q2a3URDPguxK/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

This year’s iCeGS Annual Lecture: Emergency Exit: challenges and priorities for the post-COVID recovery

This year’s annual iCegS Lecture will take place virtually on Wednesday December 9th 2020 from 15.00 – 16.00 and is a free event. This year, the lecture will be delivered by Tony Wilson. Tony is Director of the Institute for Employment Studies.  He has worked in employment policy and research for most of the last twenty years, in a range of roles spanning central government and independent…