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Careers work in Scottish state secondary schools: The guidance teacher as pastoral firefighter (2025)
Journal Article
Robertson, P., Meldrum, S., & Earnshaw, H. (online). Careers work in Scottish state secondary schools: The guidance teacher as pastoral firefighter. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2025.2463444

This article examines the delivery of career education, information, advice and guidance (CEIAG) to young people in Scottish state secondary schools. It explores the role of guidance teachers, and the influence of national policy initiatives, curricu... Read More about Careers work in Scottish state secondary schools: The guidance teacher as pastoral firefighter.

Beyond One-to-One: Unlocking the Power of Group Career Guidance (2025)
Newspaper / Magazine
Edwards, S., & Meldrum, S. (2025). Beyond One-to-One: Unlocking the Power of Group Career Guidance

Interest in Group Career Guidance (GCG) has surged recently, particularly among Career Development Professionals (CDPs) based in universities and - more recently - in schools and colleges. This innovative small group approach is closer in practice to... Read More about Beyond One-to-One: Unlocking the Power of Group Career Guidance.

Empowering Learners and Innovating Practice - A GATE to a better Future, (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Meldrum, S. (2024, November). Empowering Learners and Innovating Practice - A GATE to a better Future,. Presented at IAEVG international Conference 2024 - Riding the Wave of Change, Jyväskylä, Finland

Group career coaching has been gaining some traction in the UK and elsewhere in the field of career development in recent years. This small group approach appeals to practitioners as counselling skills, normally reserved for 1-1 practice, can be used... Read More about Empowering Learners and Innovating Practice - A GATE to a better Future,.

Group Career Coaching - Empowering Learners and Innovating Practice (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Meldrum, S. (2024, September). Group Career Coaching - Empowering Learners and Innovating Practice. Paper presented at 2024 NICE Academy: Retracing our roots: Cultivating the Future of Career Guidance and Counseling Saxion Deventer, Saxion Deventer, Netherlands

This interactive presentation aims to raise awareness of group career coaching and the Collective Career Coaching Approach (Meldrum, 2021) and its potential to empower learners and innovate practice. Through a presentation and the discussion of a cas... Read More about Group Career Coaching - Empowering Learners and Innovating Practice.

School of Applied Science enhanced PDT Model (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McIntyre, A., McGill, C., Haddow, C., Meldrum, S., & Dias Scoon, M. (2024, June). School of Applied Science enhanced PDT Model. Presented at The Gathering (DLTE), Edinburgh Napier University, UK

Group Career Coaching (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Meldrum, S. (2023, November). Group Career Coaching. Presented at CDI Scotland Members Meeting, Online

This short taster session will explore group career coaching as an approach to practice delivery. It will define what it involves, consider its benefits (such as peer learning and support) and how to overcome some of its limitations (such as lack of... Read More about Group Career Coaching.

The Career Information Podcast (2023)
Digital Artefact
(2023). The Career Information Podcast. [Podcast]

This series of podcasts explores the topic of career information. It is the product of a collaboration between staff and students in the School of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment (SCEBE) and the School of Applied Sciences (SAS).... Read More about The Career Information Podcast.

Agents for change: Reimagining emancipatory career guidance practices in Scotland (2022)
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 barriers and inequalities. It is set in the context of the ongoing major r... Read More about Agents for change: Reimagining emancipatory career guidance practices in Scotland.

Shining a brighter light on groupwork (2022)
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 been paid to developing groupwork models which both channel the skill set... Read More about Shining a brighter light on groupwork.