   | | Latest NewsWelcome to NICEC’s new website! Whilst the content is substantially the same as before, we hope that it is easier to navigate around the site and visitors find the design attractive. A significant change is that there is now just one private area for Fellows and Members which provides access to back copies of the NICEC Journal and materials from NICEC Seminars and Network Meetings.
There is a lot happening at the moment so please take the time to review the opportunities presented by NICEC, particularly our Network Meeting on 20th September and NICEC-CDI event in Bristol 7th November. Details below and on our events page.
Call for Papers
Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling (April 2020 issue)
The guest editors for the next issue (Fiona Christie, Eileen Cunningham and Kath Houston) all have dual identities as practitioners and researchers, which leads them to be most interested in receiving expressions of interest from authors of articles that use theory and research to critically inform career development policy and practice. Articles that address decent work and uncertain labour market and public policy contexts are particularly welcome. Initial expressions of interest by 15th November 2019. More information can be accessed here.
NICEC - CDI event - Reflective Practice in Action
Thursday 7th November, 9.30-3.15, Bristol venue TBC
This is a free event for NICEC and CDI members, booking and more information is available on our events page.
Next NICEC event - Network Meeting
Career guidance and social justice: What does it look like in practice?Friday 20th September 2.00- 5.00pm, Hamilton House, London
"Careers education and guidance is a profoundly political process. It operates at the interface between the individual and society, between self and opportunity, between aspiration and realism. It facilitates the allocation of life chances. Within a society in which such life chances are unequally distributed, it faces the issue of whether it serves to reinforce such inequalities or to reduce them". (Tony Watts). We are currently living in a time of economic and political turbulence. Some argue that we are experiencing what Gramsci described as an interregnum, where the old world is dying and the new is struggling to be born. How can people be expected to build a meaningful and successful career in such a world? And for career guidance professionals what do such times mean for the kinds of practices that are possible and desirable. Many professionals working in careers education and guidance have an understandable concern about engaging too closely with politics. Such an engagement seems to threaten important professional values around independence, client centredness and impartiality. However, others have argued that there is a need to recognise the way in which politics shapes both the careers of individuals and the practice of career guidance and to build a meaningful response to oppression and injustice. But, what does this all mean in practice? This NICEC network meeting will focus on translating the current debates about career guidance and social justice into practice. In the meeting contributors to Career Guidance for Social Justice and Career Guidance for Emancipation will explore how some of the ideas contained in these volumes can be translated into practice through a series of practice-based activities. Speakers include · Tristram Hooley (Professor of Career Education, University of Derby) · Charlotte Chadderton (Professor of Education, BathSpa University) · Elnaz Kashefpakdel (Head of Research, Education and Employers) · Chris Percy (Independent researcher) · Rosie Alexander (Researcher, University of the Highlands and the Islands) · Phil McCash (Associate Professor, University of Warwick). Share this event on Facebook and Twitter. Booking information available here
Career Development Policy and Practice: The Tony Watts Reader
Tony Watts, Founding Fellow of NICEC, retired in 2015, after decades of work in career development. To mark this event, NICEC published Career Development Policy and Practice: The Tony Watts Reader, with the idea of bringing together Tony’s most important writings into a single volume. Much of his work is out of print and much of the rest is tucked away in journals that can be difficult for people to access outside of universities. The editors, NICEC Fellows Tristram Hooley and Lyn Barham, wanted to draw the most enduring stuff together and give it another lease of life. The book offers a compendium of Tony's most influential writings and is a must for researchers and practitioners within the career guidance sector.Data protection
In line with new GDPR requirements, NICEC has reviewed its data protection policy. Information about the data we store can be found here
Indian Journal of Career and Livelihood Planning
The new issue (Volume 7, Issue 1) of the Indian Journal of Career and Livelihood Planning (IJCLP), is now online.
This issue carries the following papers: - Shrestha et al., use a quasi-experimental, pre-post intervention design and report on the development and outcomes of a culturally resonant career guidance programme for community schools in Nepal.
- Da Fonseca et al., present Cedefop’s skills panorama platform and guidance resources to discuss how online tools could be used to make labour market information useful.
- Easton et al., present a paper on reconciling organizational stress, cultural differences and quality of working life.
- Kversøy et al., present a moving and inspiration paper that explores career possibilities for people with intellectual disabilities.
- Sultana, draws upon his experience of the Global South to reflect upon responding to diversity.
- Oomen presents findings from her just completed doctoral research and draws attention to the role of parents in career guidance.
- Bomford et al., provide an exclusive description of the newly published book: Creative Career Coaching: Theory into Practice.
Click on this link to access the issue: http://www.iaclp.org/indian_journal_of_career_and_livelihood_planning/current_volume_7 The IJCLP is an entirely open access journal. Do feel free to send this information on to others in your network. We would like as many people as possible to benefit from the IJCLP.
We welcome you to either submit a manuscript of your work to be considered for publication in the IJCLP or, encourage others to submit. Further information is available here on our website: http://www.iaclp.org/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/10_Instructions
Latest NICEC journal
The latest NICEC journal April 2019 is now available. It presents a range of papers exploring current issues relevant to practitioners and researchers including papers that reflect underresearched groups and the impact of Brexit!
A few examples of articles include- The political is personal: Brexit and the career aspirations of UK graduates by Marjory McCrory and Teresa Thomson
- Um, Err, Ahh! Career practitioners perceptions of weight: A thematic analysis by Corrine Holden, Christian Van Nieuwerburgh, Julia Yates
- Who is supporting the career development fo refugees: The role of grassroots organisations by Gill Frigerio and Nasimi
- The career development of gay men, lesbians and bisexuals by Adrian Handcock
- Heteronormativity and barriers to successful career interventions, an exploratory study by Kristan Hopkins and Liane Hambly.
ICCDPP Symposium - South Korea
In June 2017 the 18th symposium of the International Centre for Career Development and Public Policy took place in South Korea. The event was attended by over 20 countries each of which produced a paper prior to the event documenting their approaches and strategies to career development issues in their country.
The UK was represented by delegates from England, Scotland and Wales. Copies of their papers and those produced by the other countries can be found here
The Communique detailing the outcomes from the conference can be found here
Tony Watts Reader Professor Tony Watts is a pre-eminent figure in the field of career guidance. He retired in late 2014 after a 50 year career in the field. This single volume is dedicated to anthologising his work in a way that is accessible to students, policy makers, researchers and practitioners and contains Watts’ most enduring and key writings about career guidance.
If you are NICEC Fellow or Member and need information or a reminder of your password for the private area of the website please contact membership@nicec.orgWe now have online access to the NICEC Journal for Fellows, Members and subscribers. See the Journal page for details. |