Congratulations to all four of our PhD students (Eleanor, Masauso, Fatima and Mi) who made submissions to the annual Warwick PhD poster competition that took place last week. Eleanor Lutman-White won the Faculty of Social Sciences prize and Fatima de Almeida Reszcynski was chosen as a runner-up.

The competition is part of the annual Postgraduate Research Showcase that brings together and recognises the excellence of Warwick’s postgraduate research.

Gill Frigerio has co-authored the report of a project funded by the Higher Education Academy which piloted the use of ‘Career Adapt-Ability’ in higher education career and employability services.

Career Adapt-Ability, developed by Professor Mark Savickas and colleagues, highlights four psycho-social competencies that individuals can develop to support them in handling transition in today’s labour market. Based on the premise that higher education prepares individuals for lifelong career development as well as initial transition, the project aimed to integrate the concept and its accompanying measurement instrument (The Career Adapt-abilities Inventory) into the career development and employability activities of six HE institutions.

Liz Harrison, current student on the BA (Hons) Counselling and Psychotheraphy Degree won the PCCS Books Prize 2015 at the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) Research Conference 2015. The event was held in Nottingham on 15th/16th May.

ESREA (European Society for Research on the Education of Adults) Access, Learning Careers and Identities Network Conference 2015

25 – 27 November, 2015, University of Seville, Spain
First Call for Papers

Continuity and Discontinuity in Learning Careers: Potentials for a Learning Space in a Changing World

The last ESREA Access, Learning Careers and Identities Network Conference in 2013 had the ‘crisis’ as its theme. Two years on the economic crisis, which also has social and political consequences, is still with us and continues to be particularly dominant in the south of Europe.

In a changing world what potential learning spaces – formal and informal – can be identified to encourage adults, particularly non-traditional adults, to learn in ways which are beneficial and positive to them as well as in ways which enables them to challenge the inequalities they experience in society?

Past, Present and Future of Adult Education and Lifelong Learning at Warwick and in the UK

The University of Warwick’s 50th Celebration
Centre for Lifelong Learning Event, 6 May 2015, 2pm - 4pm
Ramphal Building (Sociology), Room 1.03

The Centre for Lifelong Learning invites you to an event to celebrate 30 years of adult education and lifelong learning at Warwick during the University’s 50th celebrations. This roundtable discussion will reflect upon the changing nature of university adult education and lifelong learning over the past three decades as well considering what the future holds for universities across the UK.