Category: Presentations

On Monday I had the opportunity to go and talk about career and career guidance with a group of third year Education Studies students at the University of Derby. I think that it is really important that education studies recognises the importance of career as a conceptual lens for thinking about education and career guidance…

Yestersday, I had the opportunity to present to the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) in Wellington, New Zealand. The TEC is a Crown Agency which leads the Government’s relationship with the tertiary education sector in New Zealand and provides career services from education to employment. The TEC invests over $3 billion into tertiary education and supporting…

Today I ran a workshop on career guidance in schools for the CDANZ conference in Auckland, New Zealand. In it I tried to distil down the learning that we’ve had from 12-13 years of a school based career guidance system in England and use it to prompt some thinking about how colleagues might want to…

Yesterday I keynoted the Career Development Association of New Zealand conference in Auckland. It was a great first day, and wonderful to be together with such a wide group of committed practitioners from New Zealand and overseas. I was asked to talk about the idea of investment in career development services. My core message was…

I have just had the opportunity to present to the Auckland Chamber of Commerce about the importance of career and the future of work. My aim, as always in these things, was to try and present some kind of corrective to public and press scaremongering about the future, particularly in relation to AI and automation….

This week I’m in Sandbjerg Gods at the ECADOC summer school. This is an amazing place and an amazing week. Hopefully at some point I’ll write more about what I’ve been doing here. But, for now I’m going to share the workshop that I’m running on online research methods. This draws heavily on the book…

Today I am with my co-authors Chris Percy and Siobhan Neary, presenting the new iCeGS paper in parliament with the aim of engaging policy makers in thinking about, and ultimately funding and improving the career guidance system. The new paper is available to download for those that are interested in reading it in full. Investing…

On Friday I was asked to present on Employability in higher education: Exploring contested rationalities at the Employability in programme development congress in Barcelona. I decided to base the presentation on the article that I wrote with Lizzie Knight and Dawn Bennett entitled Rationalities that underpin employability provision in higher education across eight countries. The…

The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Skills, Careers and Employment is partnering with the Career Development Policy Group (CDPG) on a parliamentary roundtable event to explore the proposal of a “Career Guidance Guarantee” for England. The event will take place on 18th July and is open to the public either face-to-face or online. You can book to…

I’m just on my way back from the IAEVG conference in the Hague. It was an amazing three days and so good to catch up with lots of people who I haven’t seen since before the pandemic. Nothing beats spending time together. The mix of intellectual and social activities is exhausting, but it really renews…