Re-framing service delivery,
professional practices and
professional identities in UK
careers work:
ESRC Seminar Series
Reflections on the series & next steps
Jenny Bimrose
Reframing: the journey
Submission
Call,
September,
2009
January,
2010
Next steps?
Notification,
2012+
July, 2010
First seminar
December,
2010
Reframing: the host institutions
East London
Glamorgan
Limerick
West of Scotland
Ulster
Nottingham Trent
Rachel Mulvey
John Talbot
Lucy Hearne
Graham Allen & Janet
Moffatt
Rob Millar
Phil Mignot
Reframing: 3 way dialogue
policy, research and practice
Seminar location
Seminar date
University of East London 1st December, 2010
Participants confirmed
Participants attended
57
41
University of Glamorgan
31st March, 2011
50
45
University of Limerick
9th June, 2011
46
36
University of West of
Scotland
29th November, 2011
52
44
University of Ulster
31st March, 2012
(41?)
31
Nottingham Trent
University
20th June, 2012
45
Reframing: the back story?
SDS
NI CS
WAG
• REDESIGN
• Improvement
framework
• REPOSITION
• (new dept.)
• Review
• New
contracts &
delivery plans
Reframing: the back-story?
CPA
CPTF
NCC
Reframing: next steps?
Career Profession Alliance
(supporting economic productivity)
Register of Career Development Professionals:
https://www.cparegister.org/public/report.aspx?memberqueryid
=4AF7BEE0-39EB-4579-8E5801DA3CFFB06A&atc=aaa&nodeid=18601CA9-2B23-4E52-B48086AF6BB5C834
Reframing: next steps?
National Careers Council:
…provide advice to government on a strategic
vision for the national careers service and allied
career support services:
http://www.bis.gov.uk/policies/further-education-skills/nationalcareers-council
Reframing: the role of HE?
Strathclyde
Glamorgan
UEL
UWE
Use it or lose it?
Reframing: known and unknown?
Education
Act, 2011
Employers?
NGOs
Reframing: some key challenges?
LMI
Theory
EBP
ICT
European & International
• ELGPN
• ICCDPP
• PES to
PES
Resource Kit
Dialogue
International
European
• IAEVG
Reframing: the future ideal?
Responsible autonomy:
• appointing good people & creating the
conditions in which they can get on with the
job.
• ties are crucial – a sense of belonging,
community, identity
Ref: Radford, J. (2012) ‘Looking back to look forward’. Psychology in a changing world: past,
present & future. UEL, June 2012.
Reframing: the future ideal?
Vision
• Success
Converge
• Players
• Labour
Uniqueness
Market
Reframing: the future reality?
‘The lesson is, now as always, adapt or
perish.’
Ref: Wells, H.G. (1920) ‘Short History of the World’
Careers Work Innovation Website
Details of all 6 ESRC seminars
http://www.careersinnovation.net/
Special Symposium
British Journal of Guidance &
Counselling
Spring, 2013