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Since February 2010, Jenny Bimrose, Professorial Fellow at IER, has been a member of the Careers Profession Task Force, convened by the [then] Department for Children and Families and continued by the Department of Education.  The Department of Education published the final report, on 15th October, 2010.  The establishment of this Task Force into the Careers Profession was a direct result of a commitment contained in (2009).  The key objective of the Task Force was to provide the vision for high-quality delivery of CEIAG and make recommendations on the actions needed to ensure careers professionals in England have the knowledge and skills required to enable young people to: make informed decisions about learning and work pathways; and have the ability to manage and plan their own careers and personal development.  The Task Force was Chaired by Dame Ruth Silver, the Learning and Skills Improvement Service.

Professor Kate Purcell was interviewed as part of the BBC Radio 4 programme, The Graduate, which is being repeated. Kate talks about the wider graduate labour market and student experience, drawing mainly on the survey.  Episode 2 will be aired on Monday 18 October at 8pm on Radio 4.  To catch up with Episode 1 go to the .

IER researchers, Dr Heike Behle and Beate Baldauf, and a IER doctoral researcher, Charoula Tzanakou, all attended the 2010 Work, Employment and Society Conference at the University of Brighton last week.   Heike and Charoula’s paper entitled ‘German and Greek Students on undergraduate degree courses at UK universities. Their everyday experiences and expectations for the future’ brings together Heike’s work on and some of Charoula’s doctoral studies.  Their paper explored the everyday experiences and expectation of German and Greek students in the UK and their preparation for the transitions after graduation.  Beate’s paper, written with Dr Clare Lyonette, entitled ‘Quality part-time work: organisational responses to the recession’ drew on their recent research commissioned by the Government Equalities Office.  Their paper based on a qualitative study explored two key issues: (a) how organisations have responded to the recession and what role, if any, part-time work or, more generally, reduced hours measures have played and whether they have had a lasting impact on working patterns; and (b) how organisations have supported or increased ‘quality’ part-time work.

From October 2004 Peter Elias has acted as the Strategic Advisor for Data Resources to the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), assisting the ESRC and other research funding councils and agencies with plans to develop data resources for research across the social sciences and at the boundaries between the social sciences and other disciplines.  From October 2010, Peter, along with Professor John Hobcraft from the University of York, has been successful in being appointed, by the ESRC, to continue as Strategic Advisor for Data Resources for the next three years, as a shared role.

The new publication ‘’ by Professorial Fellow, Jenny Bimrose and two IER Associate Fellows, Dr Mary McMahon (The University of Queensland) and Professor Mark Watson (Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University) is now available.  The paper has been published by the Institute for Career Guidance with the support of the ICG Research Committee.

 

The paper is located within the context of the present debate about modern and post-modern career research, theory and practice.  It considers the construction of career stories of individuals across the lifespan.  The stories told by the children, adolescents, adult women and men illustrate a range of theoretical constructs related to career development and career construction.  Importantly, these constructs are derived from both modern and postmodern career theories.  The paper demonstrates that individuals’ stories provide for a rich and inclusive narrative that crosses the divide between modern and postmodern career theory. In so doing, it illustrates a possible future direction for the development of career theory.