Putting Research into Practice
Posted: 28 May 2007
Joint HECSU/HEA conference
12 June 2007
Martin Harris Centre, University of Manchester
Concern that (career guidance) practice should be supported by a body of knowledge is not new; 'evidenced-based practice' is a recurrent mantra in both initial training and continuing professional development as well as policy imperatives. However there appears to remain a separation between those generating the evidence (researchers) and those conducting career guidance (practitioners).
This conference aims to reveal how practitioners, by conducting their own research and researchers, by working within practice settings, are challenging this separation and finding ways of creating new understandings about how to best support students and graduates.
Keynote speakers:
- Stephen McNair, Guidance in HE and beyond: the context and role of research.
- Allister McGowen, What research means to my practice.
- Peter Hawkins, Are you up for a challenge?
- Kate Purcell, Futuretrack2006 - findings of the first survey of 130,000 students.