All Outputs (4)

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.

Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media debates: lessons and recommendations in the future fight for LGBTIQ+ equalities. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2024, May). Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media debates: lessons and recommendations in the future fight for LGBTIQ+ equalities. Presented at UCU Equality Research Conference 2024, University of Manchester, UK

Anti-feminist and anti-LGBTIQ+ mobilisations have taken roots transnationally, denying individuals autonomy, rights to bodily integrity, and self-determination, and attacking selected groups of people (e.g. trans* people, people doing abortion) in or... Read More about Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media debates: lessons and recommendations in the future fight for LGBTIQ+ equalities..

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.