Changing boundaries: career, identity, and self

An international conference on research, practice and policy in career development

The NICEC Fellows are delighted to invite you to a two day conference to be held on the
16th - 17th April 2019 in Manchester, England.

The conference will provide a mixture of keynotes, debates, seminars and open discussion and will
seek to address a number of big issues relating to the career development field. Confirmed
international speakers include Professor Michael Arthur, Suffolk University Boston and Dr Mary
McMahon, University of Queensland.

This conference will explore the ways in which boundaries are changing and what the implications
might be for theory, practice and policy-making in career development in a world where once
taken-for-granted assumptions are changing.

Conference themes
The conference is organised around three broad themes reflecting NICEC’s focus on the relationship
between policy, research and practice:

 Changing context for work and career

 Shifting themes and concepts
 Innovating practice

Join us
We invite contributions for workshops from a broad range of presenters conceptualising ‘changing
boundaries’ in different ways to reflect the diversity in thinking and innovation in policy-making and
practice. Key questions that the conference aims to address include:

 What influences career identity and the self?

 Can disruption be fruitful?
 What does the future look like?
 What conceptualisations of career will be needed?
 Where is the continuity and where is the change?

We welcome abstracts of up to 300 words for individual presentations (20 minutes) and up to 500
words for symposiums (one hour). Abstracts should be submitted to julia.yates.1@city.ac.uk by 31st
October 2018.

For further details email info@nicec.org and to book your place:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/changing-boundaries-career-identity-and-self-an-international-conference-
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