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List of contents
Foreword: Paul Redmond
Chapter One: Introduction – Graduate careers in context - setting the scene
Fiona Christie and Ciaran Burke
Part One: Graduate labour market: theoretical debates
Chapter Two: "Investing Your Future": The Role of Capitals in Graduate Employment Pathways
Ciaran Burke and Sarah Hannaford-Simpson
Chapter Three: Whose employability? Fees, Labour Markets and the Unequal Rewards of Undergraduate Study
Andrew Morrison
Chapter Four: Regional Capital and ‘Local’ Graduate Employment
Teresa Crew
Part Two: Graduate careers and transitions
Chapter Five: Graduate labour market myths
Charlie Ball
Chapter Six: Graduate Gap Years: Narratives of Postponement in Graduate Employment Transitions in England
Katy Vigurs, Steven Jones, Diane Harris and Julia Everitt
Chapter Seven: Geography, mobility and graduate career development
Rosie Alexander
Chapter Eight: Learning to be employable
Jane Artess
Chapter Nine: Life in the graduate graveyards: making sense of underemployment in graduate careers
Tracy Scurry and John Blenkinsopp
Part Three: Professional and Organisational issues relating to employability
Chapter Ten: Organisational Responses to the Employability Agenda in English Universities
Bob Gilworth
Chapter Eleven: A new career in Higher Education careers work
Siobhan Neary, Jill Hanson
Chapter Twelve: Contested Boundaries of Expertise in HE careers and employability services
Nalayini Thambar
Part Four: Careers Professionals Evolving into Researchers
Chapter Thirteen: The rise of the practitioner-researcher. How big data and evidence-based practice requires practitioners with a research mindset
David Winter
Chapter Fourteen: Making connections through practitioner research
Gill Frigerio
Chapter Fifteen: Conclusion - editorial reflections and a call to action
Fiona Christie and Ciaran Burke
About the author
Ciaran Burke is an Associate Professor of Higher Education, his research focuses on access to higher education and graduate employment pathways. Adopting a Bourdieusian theoretical lens, he has published extensively on issues including graduate employment, social justice and social theory.
Fiona Christie is a Careers Consultant, Writer and Researcher. Her experience includes extensive advice and guidance, teaching, and management in Higher Education and she has also worked in Secondary/Further Education. She has recently completed her PhD in Educational Research with a focus on graduate transitions, careers and employability.
