Special issue: Disciplinary perspectives in career development
Journal Article
Robertson, P. J., & Alexander, R. (2024)
Special issue: Disciplinary perspectives in career development. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling, 52(1), 3-9. https://doi.org/10.20856/jnicec.5201
This editorial sets the scene for the special issue, and provides an introduction to thinking about disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity in the field of career development.
Agents for change: Reimagining emancipatory career guidance practices in Scotland
Journal Article
Meldrum, S. (2022)
Agents for change: Reimagining emancipatory career guidance practices in Scotland. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling, 49(1), 41-49. https://doi.org/10.20856/jnicec.4907
This article explores how individual and group work models of career development practice could be adapted and redesigned to be more effective at empowering people to overcome...
Shining a brighter light on groupwork
Journal Article
Meldrum, S. (2022)
Shining a brighter light on groupwork. Career Matters, 10(1), 32-33
Career development groupwork has long been delivered alongside one-to-one interventions in a range of different settings. Unlike one-to-one interventions, little attention has...
Trade unions and career services: Potential partners for promoting social justice at work
Journal Article
Robertson, P. J., Cimini, N., Post, J., & Corry, J. (2020)
Trade unions and career services: Potential partners for promoting social justice at work. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling, 44(1), 5-12. https://doi.org/10.20856/jnicec.4401
This paper argues that trade unions represent natural allies for career services, as they have shared interests in addressing issues of social justice at work. This potentiall...
Building capabilities in disabled job seekers: A qualitative study of the Remploy Work Choices programme in Scotland
Journal Article
Robertson, P. J. (2018)
Building capabilities in disabled job seekers: A qualitative study of the Remploy Work Choices programme in Scotland. Social Work and Society: International Online Journal, 16(1), 1-15
This article reports on a qualitative study of the UK’s labour activation pathway for jobseekers with disabilities and health conditions. The aim was to explore the experienc...
Researching skills development: students as partners in this process
Journal Article
Campbell Casey, S., MacCallum, J., Robertson, L., & Strachan, L. (2018)
Researching skills development: students as partners in this process. New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, 13(1), https://doi.org/10.29311/ndtps.v0i13.2881
Many employers report that newly qualified graduates lack key skills necessary for success in the workplace. Although variable, many lack general ‘transferable’ or ‘soft’ skil...
Developing career capabilities in “NEET” young people: experiences of participants in the Prince’s Trust team programme
Journal Article
Robertson, P. J. (2018)
Developing career capabilities in “NEET” young people: experiences of participants in the Prince’s Trust team programme. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 46(6), 752-764. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2018.1434130
This qualitative study focuses on the impact of a supportive 12-week programme intended to empower young people who are not in employment, education or training (NEET) to purs...
Bhaskar and Sen: Two foundations on which to build a new approach to career guidance and life planning
Journal Article
Robertson, P. J. (2018)
Bhaskar and Sen: Two foundations on which to build a new approach to career guidance and life planning. Indian Journal of Career and Livelihood Planning, 6(1), 22-28
This paper argues for a new perspective on guidance and life planning that is informed, but not dominated, by pre-existing Western conceptions of career. Two scholars are high...
Enhancing skills development and reflective practise in students during their programme of study
Journal Article
MacCallum, J., & Campbell Casey, S. (2017)
Enhancing skills development and reflective practise in students during their programme of study. New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, 12(12), https://doi.org/10.29311/ndtps.v0i12.2368
The transition to the workplace can be challenging for new graduates. At Edinburgh Napier our approach is to work proactively with students to prepare them for the world of wo...
Group guidance – is it time to flock together?
Journal Article
Meldrum, S. (2017)
Group guidance – is it time to flock together?. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling, 38(1), 36-43. https://doi.org/10.20856/jnicec.3806
This article calls for delivery models which encourage the collective career learning of groups to be brought to the centre stage of career guidance practice. It challenges th...