Research Conference for Careers Practitioners: event resources 2023


This annual collaborative conference was delivered by the Career Development Institute, AGCAS, University of Derby and NICEC on Thursday 16 February 2023.  

To support you further with ideas for your research we are sharing some useful documents, speaker presentations and the research posters below.

Useful documents

A chapter on Action Research from CPD for the Career Development Professional

A chapter on Ensuring Continuous Improvement from the latest Careers Leaders Handbook

Thank you to Trotman for permission to share these chapters with you. If you are interested in the full books please visit the Trotman website.

Getting to Chartered Status: Understanding the views of stakeholders: Executive summary (Courtesy of the International Centre for Guidance Studies)

iCeGS Annual Review 2022 (Courtesy of the International Centre for Guidance Studies)

CDI Resource Pack on Data Collection (Courtesy of the CDI)

Speakers' presentations

We are grateful to our speakers for kindly sharing their presentations and videos (only content approved for sharing is listed below).


Welcome and morning keynote

Chris Percy (Careers Researcher), Siobhan Neary (Head of the International Centre for Guidance Studies iCeGS), Elaine Boyes (Executive Director, AGCAS): Watch video

National panel speakers

Watch panel video

Elnaz Kashefcakdel: View presentation

Fiona Christie: View presentationWatch video

International panel speakers

Watch panel video

Lorraine Godden: View presentation

Nicki Moore: View presentation

Randi Skovhus: View presentation

Seminar speakers

Keren Coney: View presentation | Watch video

Maria Cecil: View presentation | Watch video

Polly Wiggins: View presentation | Watch video

Anne Delauzun: View presentation | Watch video

Cordelia Wise: View presentation | Watch video

Sophie Hall: View presentationWatch video

Afternoon keynote and close

Watch video

Keynote speaker Sareena Hopkins: View presentation

Closing remarks: David Morgan (Chief Executive, CDI) and Gill Frigerio (Associate Professor, University of Warwick & Chair of NICEC): View presentation

Research posters and videos

Please find the entries for this year's research poster competition below.


Corinne Holden: Study into the experiences of low paid menopausal women in the workplace. View presentation

Elayne Greeley: Unified Professional Identity. View presentation

Emma Lennox: Career journey influences on Arts, English and Languages Students. View presentation | Watch video

Gemma Witts: What is the experience of UK based HE Careers Advisers supporting international students? View presentation

Helen Jackson: Pre-adolescents’ perceived career guidance needs and co-designing input. View presentation

Holly McLoughlin: A theory of how CDPs innovate. View presentation | Watch video

Jillain Bain: The impact of child loss on career decision making and trajectory. View presentation

Lesley Grayburn: What opportunities and challenges does the datafication of UK higher education present to careers services in engaging with underrepresented groups? View presentation

Louise Thomas-Burt: Why are careers appointments negatively impacting our graduate outcomes results? View presentation

Steve Moworth: Climate and ecological reality: a silence at the heart of our practice. View presentation | Watch video

Uuganaa Ramsay: Hypnotherapy: Use, knowledge and attitudes of careers professionals. View presentation | Watch video

Victoria Spence: Careers Theories in the Creative Arts. View presentation