CDI & iCeGS Research conference - Demystifying Research: Encouraging curiosity

Who was it for?

Career Development Practitioners.

Many people see research as something undertaken by academics. However, we want to inspire all career development practitioners to develop their confidence, undertake research and develop the evidence base. We want you to celebrate your research and to talk about how this has informed your own and others practice.

What did the conference contain?

This one-day conference was esigned as an introduction to research and research approaches. It was also a platform for those undertaking research to tell us how they have gone about it and what they have found out. Delegates heard about innovative approaches to gathering, analysing and presenting data.

Keynote speakers included:

• Dr Siobhan Neary, Head of iCeGS,
• Dr Emily Tanner, Head of Research at the Careers and Enterprise Company,
• Emily Róisín Reid from Warwick Medical School,
• Nicki Moore, Senior Lecturer in Career Development at the University of Derby and
• Dr Jill Hanson, Senior Researcher at the International Centre for Guidance Studies.
• Professor Tristram Hooley, University of Derby

Workshops: There were three themes for the workshops

1. Resourcing research
2. Innovative approaches to research
3. Using research to inform practice

Follow the links to view recordings of the sessions.

Plenary 1 

• Understanding research in career development by Nicki Moore
• Progress and priorities for careers and enterprise education in England by Dr Emily Tanner
• International Research in Career Development by Dr Siobhan Neary

Workshop 1

• Practicalities of recruiting participants in survey research during doctoral study by Kane Needham
• Practitioner research - the CDI helps! by r Lyn Barham
• Connecting Research and Practice: Calling in a Career Context by Dr Christine Blackie
  • (To discuss her research, please contact her direct on christine.blackie@gmail.com)

Workshop 2

• The Listening Guide - a way to listen to your interview data by Dr Lyn Barham
• Using evaluation to measure impact by Dr Emily Tanner

Workshop 3

• Cultivating your conceptual thinking to enrich your research practice by Dr Cathy Brown
• Plan, Do, Reflect, Review: Using action research to explore your practice by Gill Frigerio

Plenary 2

• Research ethics and young people by Dr Jill Hanson
• One career practitioner’s voyage into research: A mixed-methods approach by Emily Reid
• The Lazy Persons Guide to Evidence by Professor Tristram Hooley