Presentations
Fit for purpose: undergraduates and employability
Paper presented by Maura O'Regan at AGCAS Biennial Conference, Brunel University, September 2009
HEIR - Institutional Research Network Conference
UK and Ireland Higher Education Institutional Research Network Conference (HEIR), Dublin City University, Ireland, June 2010, 'Institutional Research into Careers as a way of Enhancing Students' Academic and Career Development'.
Presentation to network of Dutch Careers Counsellors
David Stanbury's presentation on Destinations® to a network of Careers Counsellors in Amsterdam, February 2010. On the basis of this demonstration, the University of Delft in Amsterdaum decided to purchase the Destinations® package.
Student Stories
A unique web resource for students, to support personal reflection and development before, during and beyond university.
Presentation at the University of Reading, 18th June 2009
CCMS is developing an innovative web-based reflective learning resource, Student Stories, that will offer students and other young people access to authentic accounts of university life from those who have experienced it first hand. The resource will be free and nationally available and is due to be launched by the end of 2009.
To express interest in the site and keep up to date with developments, please contact Joy Collier: j.collier@reading.ac.uk
Undergraduate Orientations to Study and Career: What students say
Paper presented at the University of Reading Teaching and Learning day 2008.
The Centre for Career Management Skills has funded a qualitative PhD studentship to investigate student experiences of higher education and the development of their thinking about careers. The initial investigation followed 30 students taking history and economics modules during their second year at university (2006-7). A follow up study is being undertaken by CCMS in 2008-9 to retain contact with the same cohort of students as they leave university.
The presentation links initial findings from Maura's PhD with the follow up study. The students' voices are used to explore different orientations to university life, work and future careers in their second year at university. We present a typology, developed from this research, which proposes four different orientations to career. We then examine whether the follow up study shows these orientations shifting significantly between the second year and leaving university.
To discuss further, contact Maura O'Regan or Julia Horn.
Employability Review
Presentation at the University of Reading, June 2008
Presentation of Helen William’s work with the School of Real Estate and Planning at the University of Reading, given at the iCEGs (International Centre for Guidance Studies) conference in June 2008. To discuss further, contact Helen Williams.
FEDORA Congress 2009, Berlin
STORIES FOR LIFELONG LEARNING
This workshop presentation (given at the FEDORA Congress 2009 in Berlin) explores the potential for narrative material to help inspire and enable lifelong learners to better understand themselves and their unique learning journeys. The presentation looks at how narrative approaches might relate to careers theory and show-cases two narrative based web resources Beyond the PhD and Student Stories - developed by CCMS. Full references and explanatory notes can be found by using the Notes View function. This presentation is available in two formats; as a simple PowerPoint file (without the accompanying audio files) or as a (very large) zipped file (with the audio files).
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DESTINATIONS® EVOLUTIONS
This workshop presentation (given at the FEDORA Congress 2009 in Berlin) explores the impact made by the award-winning Destinations® careers learning resource from CCMS, on the long term development of curriculum based careers education within the UK HE sector, and the implications these changes have had for the careers profession. Full references and explanatory notes can be found by using the Notes View function.