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show or hide details for this item Research: Where Next? Blog Entry 1 reply 08-November-2006 Deirdre Hughes
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A new Institute of Career Guidance (ICG) Practitioners' Research Forum

The ICG Council has formally approved a set of recommendations from the Research Committee to establish, in liaison with the ICG membership, a Practitioners` Research Forum. This is designed to help meet the research needs and interests of the ICG membership and to ensure that future research is informed by practitioner perspectives. It is intended that this new Forum will enable members to:

  • share ideas for research development, of benefit to themselves and the ICG, through email, weblog discussion groups via the NGRF and ICG websites and face-to-face meetings linked to the ICG Regional Representative arrangements;

  • participate in at least one major research event or activity each year highlighting good and interesting practice and linking to the work of other careers professional associations.

One possibility for participation in a major research event for 2007 is the active involvement of practitioners and managers in a national survey, led by the Centre for Guidance Studies, University of Derby, that mirrors the work of a Canadian Research Working Group (CRWG) in identifying important issues in the collection and reporting of impact data related to careers guidance.

It is hoped that the Forum will attract expressions of interest from a wide cross section of the ICG membership. Your views are invaluable to help develop the ICG Practitioners' Research Forum into a vibrant community of practice. The first meeting of the Forum meeting will be held on:

Thursday 9th November 2006, 5.30pm - 6.00pm in the Queen Mary Suite, Glasgow Marriott Hotel, Glasgow.

For more information either post a reply below highlighting key themes or issues that you feel need to be addressed from a research perspective. We will actively respond by sharing ideas and signposting you to potential sources of useful information and/or contacts.

Alternatively, you may wish to contact: Deirdre Hughes (email: dmhughes@derby.ac.uk )  or Pete Robertson (email: p.robertson@napier.ac.uk ), Co-chairs of the ICG Research Committee, in the first instance.

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A welcome initiative Discussion Topic 1 reply 17-November-2006 jonathan reeve
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Some tentative ideas

Hi. The proposed forum seems a very good, and timely, idea.

  1. A survey does indeed seem a good way of scoping the territory; would it also include reference to ways in which practitioners might be applying aspects of different theories, or the egneral level of awareness of tehoretical perspectives?
  2. (Really an observation)There seems to be a tendency in what I guess is relatively small research community for certain ideas or approaches to catch on and become "fashionable". The current enthusiasm for narrative approaches are a good example of this tendency; however, I wonder if it tends to exclude attention to other, established, approaches, i.e. we don't see them, because we're not looking for them (and equally, if we do see them, we choose not to see the benefits of them). Hence, for example, the frequent criticism of the likes of Egan, or what is described as "trait-and-factor", etc. Again, a survey might offer the potential to address this and create a fuller picture.
  3. Would some "voluntary" research be possible, i.e. willing practitioners test out some competing approaches and report back - action-research/ practitioner led research, etc. Or (from my work perspective) canvassing students on their responses to - and hopefully attempts to incorporate - the theoretical approaches that they encounter in class.

Don't kow how helpful any of these ideas are? But deinitely keen to get involved!