Promoting student well-being: Are you better than you think? (2017)
Journal Article
Robertson, P. (2017). Promoting student well-being: Are you better than you think?. Phoenix (AGCAS journal), 20-21

Dr Pete Robertson, Associate Professor & Programme Leader for Career Guidance in the School of Applied Sciences at Edinburgh Napier University, outlines proactive approaches that careers services can adopt to respond to the challenges of supporting s... Read More about Promoting student well-being: Are you better than you think?.

Positive psychology and career development (2017)
Journal Article
Robertson, P. J. (2018). Positive psychology and career development. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 46(2), 241-254. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2017.1318433

Positive psychology has been an influential movement within psychology in the early years of the 21st century. It is now timely to assess the value of its contribution to career education and guidance. This paper provides a critique of this perspecti... Read More about Positive psychology and career development.

Identifying and measuring capabilities for career development in NEET young people (2017)
Journal Article
Robertson, P. J. (2017). Identifying and measuring capabilities for career development in NEET young people. Recherches sociologique et anthropologique/ Sociological and anthropological research, 47(2), 83-99

Amartya Sen's Capability Approach offers great potential as a conceptual framework for promoting social justice and well-being through economic and educational engagement. Yet the capability approach presents researchers with formidable difficulties,... Read More about Identifying and measuring capabilities for career development in NEET young people.

Career Guidance, Health and Well-being (2017)
Journal Article
Robertson, P. (2017). Career Guidance, Health and Well-being. Career Matters, 5(1), 36-37

This is a brief article for practitioners in the Career Development Institute's magazine: Career Matters. It explores the links between work, health and well-being, and considers the implications for career development practice.

Positive psychology: A movement to reintegrate career counselling within counselling psychology (2015)
Journal Article
Robertson, P. (2015). Positive psychology: A movement to reintegrate career counselling within counselling psychology. Counselling psychology review / the British Psychological Society, 30(3), 26-35

Content & Focus: In the UK career counselling has tended to evolve separately from the counselling psychology profession. Elsewhere, notably in North America, counselling psychology does embrace career issues. This paper explores the contested bounda... Read More about Positive psychology: A movement to reintegrate career counselling within counselling psychology.

Towards a capability approach to careers: Applying Amartya Sen's thinking (2014)
Journal Article
Robertson, P. J. (2015). Towards a capability approach to careers: Applying Amartya Sen's thinking. International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 15(1), 75-88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10775-014-9280-4

Amartya Sen’s capability approach characterizes an individual’s well-being in terms of what they are able to be, and what they are able to do. This framework for thinking has many commonalities with the core ideas in career guidance. Sen’s approach i... Read More about Towards a capability approach to careers: Applying Amartya Sen's thinking.

Clients with mental health conditions: a challenge for career guidance practice. (2011)
Book Chapter
Robertson, P. (2011). Clients with mental health conditions: a challenge for career guidance practice. In B. A. Irving, & L. Barham (Eds.), Constructing the Future: Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice (131-146). Institute of Career Guidance

This article explores meeting the needs of clients with mental health conditions and seeks to establish this group as one of particular interest to career guidance practitioners. The issues are introduced in broad terms by looking at the incidence, s... Read More about Clients with mental health conditions: a challenge for career guidance practice..