Associate Professor

 

Room WCE1.01, Lifelong Learning Building, Westwood Campus

P.T.McCash@warwick.ac.uk

+44 (0)24 7615 1389

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I work across CLL as Director of Graduate Studies. I also teach on our Master's degrees in career development and coaching, and supervise a number of postgraduate students.

PhD supervision
PhD candidates are welcome to contact me with research proposals. Perhaps you've noticed a problem or topic that you'd like to explore more deeply? Maybe you're incubating a creative project with the potential for individual, social, or cultural transformation? If so, it would be good to hear from you.

I can supervise projects related to the fields of lifelong learning, adult education, career development work, coaching, and/or professional learning. I am particularly interested in interpretivist and qualitative approaches to research. Your project could be literature-based, conceptual, action research, case study, narrative/biographical, autoethnographic, or a blend of these approaches.

Research interests
My early scholarship related to education and career development work. Subsequently, this has broadened to a range of topics including culture, coaching, narrative, social justice, and depth psychology (especially Jungian and post-Jungian). Lifelong learning remains the red thread running through. I'm interested in the shared intellectual history connecting these areas such as interactionism and the learning career.

Chapters/books
McCash, P. (2021). Personal myth and analytical psychology. In S. Carpani (Ed.), The plural turn in Jungian and post-Jungian studies: The work of Andrew Samuels. Routledge.
McCash, P. (2021). Cultural learning theory and career development. In P. J. Robertson, T. Hooley, & P. McCash (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of career development. Oxford University Press.
McCash, P., Hooley, T., & Robertson, P. J. (2021). Introduction: Rethinking career development. In P. J. Robertson, T. Hooley, & P. McCash (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of career development. Oxford University Press.
Robertson, P. J., Hooley, T., & McCash, P. (Eds.) (2021).The Oxford handbook of career development. Oxford University Press.
Midttun, K. & McCash, P. (2019). Social justice and continuing professional development: A workshop for career development practitioners. In T. Hooley, R.G. Sultana, & R. Thomsen (Eds.), Career guidance for emancipation: Reclaiming justice for the multitude. Routledge.
McCash, P. (2016). Employability and depth psychology. In M. Tomlinson & L. Holmes (Eds.), Graduate employability in context: Theory, research and debate. Palgrave Macmillan.
McCash, P. (2008). Career studies handbook: Career development learning in practice. Higher Education Academy.

Articles
McCash, P. (2024). The Chicago School of Sociology and the origins of Career Studies. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling, 52(1), 25-39. https://doi.org/10.20856/jnicec.5203 
McCash, P. (2013). The professional development needs of career service employees in the university sector: A personal view on some contemporary challenges. Career Service Papers: Career Service Netwerk Deutschland, 11: 17-25.
Frigerio, G. & McCash, P. (2013). Creating career coaching. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling, 30: 54-58.
McCash, P. (2010). Using concept mapping to develop a career studies curriculum. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling, 23: 25-33.
McCash, P. (2007). Career studies: New ideas for academics and careers advisers. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling, 17: 23-29.
McCash, P. (2006). We’re all career researchers now: Breaking open careers education and DOTS. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 34 (4): 429-449.

Other publications/media
McCash, P. (2020, July 2). Looking Back on the DOTS, Career Learning, and Community Interaction Theories.Link opens in a new window In M. Larbalestier (Chair), A Bill Law Retrospective, National Institute for Career Education and Counselling Online Seminar. NICEC Seminar: a Bill Law retrospective | NICEC (video recording).
McCash, P. (2018). Career development at depth: A critical evaluation of career development theory from the perspective of analytical psychology. PhD thesis: University of Essex.
McCash, P. (2014). Foreword. In Association of Higher Education Career Services, Crafting the present for future employability: An AHECS employability module. AHECS.
Andrews, D., Frigerio, G. & McCash, P. (2012). Final report to the British Council Pakistan on a consultancy to develop postgraduate courses in career counselling and education. Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Warwick.
Frigerio, G., Mendez, R. & McCash, P. (2012). Re-designing work-related learning: A management studies placement module. Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Warwick.
McCash, P. (2011). Designing a generic career studies module: A practical example. Centre for Career Management Skills, University of Reading.