Critical Perspectives on Career and Career Guidance (COCAG)

Thank you to Mariana Lucas Casanova for this reflection on the ECADOC summer school. Mariana is a Psychologist with over 20 years of experience working with higher education students and graduates, specialised in Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Vocational and Career Development. She is an Integrated Researcher at the Centre for Research & Innovation in Ed...

New open-access article on the earnings effect of university career services and what it means for a critical approach to guidance from Rosario Scandurra, a Ramón y Cajal Senior Researcher at UPF Barcelona School of Management and a member of COCAG. The article is open access at htt...

Thank you to Peter Robertson for this post exploring the trade-offs from career choice in his book Careers and Freedom: A new pe...

Working group 1 is continuing their webinar series on 26th October 10:00-11:00 UTC+0 with a presentation on on-location digital platform work from Moisés Ferreira. On-location digital platform work is rapidly expanding, yet its features and impacts on workers are often insufficiently understood. Drawing upon the results of a comprehensive scoping review of 152 studies, this w...

On 22nd September Jarkko Immonen (MA) explored the possibilities of cruel optimism as a conceptual tool for (eco)socially just career guidance praxis and research. Below is the webinar and slides in which he presented his research investigating cruel optimism in the context of tuition fee-liable (i.e. non-EU) university students in Finland, a group who inhabit a highly contra...