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Should Job Centres provide career guidance? (2024)
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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)
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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.

What to Expect at the BAFCA Convention (2024)
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Laird, P., & Davies, M. (2024). What to Expect at the BAFCA Convention. [Blog post]

BAFCA and its precursor the NFCA has been in existence since 1992. Established originally with the remit of providing knowledge sharing opportunities between coaches, one of its initial benefits was the delivery of its annual coaching conference. It... Read More about What to Expect at the BAFCA Convention.

Podcast - The art of doing collaborative research (2024)
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Guma, T. Podcast - The art of doing collaborative research. [podcast]

Career development for an ailing services superpower (2024)
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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.

Perfect your lesson plans with a chatbot (2024)
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McGill, C. (2024). Perfect your lesson plans with a chatbot. [Article]

Karriererettleiing og livskvalitet (2024)
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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.

Longer sentences? Overcrowded UK prisons are already failing society (2023)
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Foster, R., & Anderson, K. (2023). Longer sentences? Overcrowded UK prisons are already failing society. [Magazine]

Drugs (SCCJR Learning Resource accompanying video) (2023)
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Foster, R. (2023). Drugs (SCCJR Learning Resource accompanying video). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0cYCWQ4oBs]

This video accompanies a learning resource titled 'Drugs', as part of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research's learning resource suite for Modern Studies learners and teachers in Scotland.

Scotland's Prison Population (SCCJR Learning Resource accompanying video) (2023)
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Anderson, K. (2023). Scotland's Prison Population (SCCJR Learning Resource accompanying video). [Video]

This video accompanies a learning resource titled 'Scotland's Prison Population', as part of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research's learning resource suite for Modern Studies learners and teachers in Scotland.

What is crime? (SCCJR Learning Resource accompanying video) (2023)
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Soliman, F. (2023). What is crime? (SCCJR Learning Resource accompanying video). [Video]

This video is part of the SCCJR Learning Resources for Schools which has been created especially for Modern Studies learners. The briefings reflect some of the most popular topics that previous learners have decided to write about in their assignment... Read More about What is crime? (SCCJR Learning Resource accompanying video).

Ten years on: from Lampedusa to Pylos (2023)
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Soliman, F. (2023). Ten years on: from Lampedusa to Pylos. [Blog post]

Ask the Criminologists: Webinar for Modern Studies teachers (2023)
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Mabon, K., Gumulinska, I., Clayton, E., Morrison, K., Graham, H., & Foster (PI), R. (2023). Ask the Criminologists: Webinar for Modern Studies teachers. [YouTube video]

Webinar content prepared and recorded by our SCCJR project team for Modern Studies teachers in Scotland. We invited questions from Modern Studies teachers across Scotland and answered them, alongside questions ‘from the floor’ in this live webinar. T... Read More about Ask the Criminologists: Webinar for Modern Studies teachers.

The Career Information Podcast (2023)
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(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.

YouTube: Modern Studies learners webinar (2023)
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Mabon, K., Gumulinska, I., Clayton, E., Morrison, K., Graham, H., & Foster, R. (2023). YouTube: Modern Studies learners webinar. [YouTube video]

Webinar content prepared and recorded by our SCCJR project team for Modern Studies learners in Scotland. We invited questions from Modern Studies learners across Scotland and answered them in this pre-recorded webinar.

What Works for ‘Authentic Belonging’ Enhancement in Criminology? (2023)
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Haddow, C., & Brodie, J. (2023). What Works for ‘Authentic Belonging’ Enhancement in Criminology?. [Blog post]

Into the Planthroposcene - together with the photosynthetic ones (2023)
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Carabelli, G., & Maclean, G. (2023). Into the Planthroposcene - together with the photosynthetic ones. [Video]

How present are plants in your life? Do you notice them, or consider them part of the background? This video explores the relationships we have with the photosynthetic ones - those beings thanks to whom we can breathe, and thus be alive. By learning... Read More about Into the Planthroposcene - together with the photosynthetic ones.

Justice Social Work and the National Care Service (2023)
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Buchan, J. (2023). Justice Social Work and the National Care Service. [Blog post]

Blog piece for SCCJR on the potential implications of the National Care Service reforms for Justice Social Work.

Career guidance and meritocracy: A match made in heaven? (2023)
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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)
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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.