The ESRC seminar series entitled: ‘Re-framing service delivery, professional practices and professional identities in UK careers work’ is being organised by Professor Jenny Bimrose and Dr Sally-Anne Barnes from the Institute for Employment Research in partnership with Professors Laurie Cohen and John Arnold from Loughborough University.  The series will comprise 6 one-day seminars. The title of the second is: ‘Professional associations & professionalism: exploring the ‘Balkanisation’ of careers guidance, the role of the associations and their inter-relationships’ at the University of Glamorgan on 31st March, 2011.  More information on the seminar series is available.

Dr Clare Lyonette from the Institute for Employment Research has been elected on to the editorial board for the Work, Employment and Society Journal from January 2011 for 3 years. 

Since February 2010, Jenny Bimrose, Professorial Fellow at IER, has been a member of the Careers Profession Task Force, convened by the [then] Department for Children and Families and continued by the Department of Education.  The Department of Education published the final report, Towards a Strong Careers Profession on 15th October, 2010.  The establishment of this Task Force into the Careers Profession was a direct result of a commitment contained in The Children’s Plan’ and subsequent strategy for young people’s information advice and guidance, entitled: ‘Quality, Choice and Aspiration (2009).  The key objective of the Task Force was to provide the vision for high-quality delivery of CEIAG and make recommendations on the actions needed to ensure careers professionals in England have the knowledge and skills required to enable young people to: make informed decisions about learning and work pathways; and have the ability to manage and plan their own careers and personal development.  The Task Force was Chaired by Dame Ruth Silver, the Learning and Skills Improvement Service.

To mark 10 years since the merger of the College of Guidance Studies with Canterbury Christ Church University and the creation of the Centre for Career and Personal Development, Jenny will give a public lecture drawing on findings from three research studies (one ongoing and two recent), in national, European and International contexts.

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