All Outputs (72)

Should Job Centres provide career guidance? (2024)
Digital Artefact
Robertson, P. (2024). Should Job Centres provide career guidance?. [Blog]

This article considers the merits of the Labour Party Manifesto proposal to integrate career services into Job Centre Plus services (the UK's public employment service).

Is there a role for neuroscience in career counselling? (2024)
Digital Artefact
Robertson, P., Garden, C., & Carmichael, D. (2024). Is there a role for neuroscience in career counselling?. [Blog post]

This blog post provides a critical perspective on neuroscience informed career counselling.

Participatory Design with Domain Experts: A Delphi Study for a Career Support Chatbot (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wilson, M., Brazier, D., Gkatzia, D., & Robertson, P. (2024, July). Participatory Design with Domain Experts: A Delphi Study for a Career Support Chatbot. Presented at ACM Conversational User Interfaces 2024 (CUI ’24), Luxembourg, Luxembourg

We present a study of collaboration with expert participants for the purpose of the responsible design of a conversational agent. The Delphi study was used to identify and develop design and evaluation criteria for an automated career support interve... Read More about Participatory Design with Domain Experts: A Delphi Study for a Career Support Chatbot.

Special issue: Disciplinary perspectives in career development (2024)
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.

The collaborative use of career information by young people and career advisers: A thematic content analysis of career counselling records (2024)
Journal Article
Milosheva, M., Robertson, P., Cruickshank, P., & Hall, H. (2024). The collaborative use of career information by young people and career advisers: A thematic content analysis of career counselling records. Australian Journal of Career Development, 33(1), 72-81. https://doi.org/10.1177/10384162241232267

This study explores the career information-seeking behaviours of young people and career advisers. These are examined through the interrogation of a secondary data set held by Scotland's national skills agency, Skills Development Scotland. Descriptiv... Read More about The collaborative use of career information by young people and career advisers: A thematic content analysis of career counselling records.

Career development for an ailing services superpower (2024)
Digital Artefact
Robertson, P. (2024). Career development for an ailing services superpower. [Blog]

This article summarises recent assessments of the UK economy, and suggests how career development services can make a contribution to economic recovery.

Karriererettleiing og livskvalitet (2024)
Digital Artefact
Robertson, P. (2024). Karriererettleiing og livskvalitet. [Podcast]

This podcast contains an interview in which Prof Pete Robertson discusses the links between mental health, work and learning. It explores the role for career guidance practitioners in supporting mental well-being and how career development can be se... Read More about Karriererettleiing og livskvalitet.

Career Development as Freedom (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robertson, P. (2023, December). Career Development as Freedom. Presented at iCEGS annual lecture 2023, University of Derby

This lecture explores the Capability Approach and its potential to provide a way of thinking about career development that links theory, practice, and policy. Considering theory first, the Capability Approach provides a broad-brush way of looking at... Read More about Career Development as Freedom.

Responsible Design & Evaluation of a Conversational Agent for a National Careers Service (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wilson, M., Cruickshank, P., Gkatzia, D., & Robertson, P. (2023, September). Responsible Design & Evaluation of a Conversational Agent for a National Careers Service. Presented at Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA) 2023, Vienna, Austria

This PhD project applies a research-through-design approach to the development of a conversational agent for a national career service for young people. This includes addressing practical, interactional and ethical aspects of the system. For each asp... Read More about Responsible Design & Evaluation of a Conversational Agent for a National Careers Service.

Questions to ask of a model: A framework to help practitioners understand and choose between models for career development practice (2023)
Journal Article
Robertson, P., & Yates, J. (2023). Questions to ask of a model: A framework to help practitioners understand and choose between models for career development practice. Career Matters, 11(4), 40-41

Information literacy competencies for career transitions in the digital age (2023)
Book Chapter
Milosheva, M., Hall, H., Robertson, P., & Cruickshank, P. (2023). Information literacy competencies for career transitions in the digital age. In G. Widen, & J. Teixeira (Eds.), Information Literacy and the Digitalisation of the Workplace (71-101). Facet Publishing

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.

Principal Agent Theory & AI in Careers Services: Digitalisation and technologies in career education and guidance [Symposium] (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wilson, M., Robertson, P., Cruickshank, P., & Gkatzia, D. (2023, March). Principal Agent Theory & AI in Careers Services: Digitalisation and technologies in career education and guidance [Symposium]. Paper presented at Nordic Education Research Association Conference, Oslo

Career guidance and meritocracy: A match made in heaven? (2023)
Digital Artefact
Robertson, P. (2023). Career guidance and meritocracy: A match made in heaven?. [Blog]

This blog post explores how meritocratic ideologies may create inequalities, and present problems for career guidance practice.

Job Centres are the front line for mental health services: We need to prevent people from becoming patients in the first place (2023)
Digital Artefact
Coutts, A. P., Robertson, P., & Parsons, H. (2023). Job Centres are the front line for mental health services: We need to prevent people from becoming patients in the first place. [The New Statesman [online magazine, UK edition]]

This article does not have an abstract. It addresses the potential for front line services, such as Job Centres, to play a role in public mental health.

Career development and criminal justice: Foundations for a new integration to promote peace and justice (2022)
Journal Article
Robertson, P. (2022). Career development and criminal justice: Foundations for a new integration to promote peace and justice. Indian Journal of Career and Livelihood Planning, 11(1), 16-30

The promotion of peace and justice is an important responsibility of governments, and it represents one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN, 2015). To date there has been little consideration of how career development services mig... Read More about Career development and criminal justice: Foundations for a new integration to promote peace and justice.

Thoughts on Professionalism: A reaction to the recent Phoenix special issue (2022)
Digital Artefact
Robertson, P. (2022). Thoughts on Professionalism: A reaction to the recent Phoenix special issue. [online magazine]

Professor Pete Robertson, Edinburgh Napier University, responds to the recent issue of Phoenix which focused on professionalism. He asks whether career development in HE is a separate profession or part of a wider careers profession. Exploring som... Read More about Thoughts on Professionalism: A reaction to the recent Phoenix special issue.

Capturing career information use in everyday life: introducing the CIEL conceptual framework (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milosheva, M., Hall, H., Robertson, P., & Cruickshank, P. (2022, September). Capturing career information use in everyday life: introducing the CIEL conceptual framework. Presented at Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) Conference, Berlin, Germany

Introduction. Everyday career information use is not fully addressed by extant theories, models, and frameworks. In this paper, a conceptual framework of career information behaviour and career information literacy in everyday life is presented. Meth... Read More about Capturing career information use in everyday life: introducing the CIEL conceptual framework.

On the moral limits of the labour market: Navigating ethical issues around occupational choice (2022)
Digital Artefact
Robertson, P. (2022). On the moral limits of the labour market: Navigating ethical issues around occupational choice. [Blog]

This article does not have an abstract. It outlines some of the conplexities career advisers face when dealing with the wide range of occupations and industries that may be ethically problematic.

Opportunities and risks in the use of AI in career development practice (2022)
Journal Article
Wilson, M., Robertson, P., Cruickshank, P., & Gkatzia, D. (2022). Opportunities and risks in the use of AI in career development practice. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling, 48(1), 48-57. https://doi.org/10.20856/jnicec.4807

The Covid-19 pandemic required many aspects of life to move online. This accelerated a broader trend for increasing use of ICT and AI, with implications for both the world of work and career development. This article explores the potential benefits a... Read More about Opportunities and risks in the use of AI in career development practice.