Scottish Student Conference 2026: event resources

This annual collaborative conference was delivered by the Career Development Institute, University of the West of Scotland and Edinburgh Napier University on 25 February 2026.

To support students further, we are sharing some useful documents below.

Speakers' presentations and recordings

We are grateful to our speakers for kindly sharing their presentations (only content approved for sharing has been listed below).


Keynote 2: Decent work
Ishbel McWha Hermann
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Keynote 3: A sense of calling: Career heaven? or no earthly use?
Gill Frigerio & Pete Robertson
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Workshop 1 (option 1): Dementia and women’s career development
Rachel Allen
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Workshop 1 (option 2): Gender and apprenticeships
Maria Cecil
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Workshop 2 (option 1): The feminisation of the medical profession
Susie Agnew
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Workshop 2 (option 2): Small-scale practitioner research: How everyday inquiry can strengthen your practice
Gemma Smith, Valerie Rowles, Natalie Freeman & Stephanie Kenyon
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