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View article: Graduates' conceptions of meaningful work
Graduates' conceptions of meaningful work Open
This paper explores how meaningful work is conceptualised by recent graduates. Whilst the imperative to maximise economic returns from higher education (HE) endures in HE policy, less attention is given to how meaningful work is and its re…
View article: Capitals, capabilities, and the conversion of commodities: the case of neurodivergent graduates’ transitions to the labour market
Capitals, capabilities, and the conversion of commodities: the case of neurodivergent graduates’ transitions to the labour market Open
The employment opportunities and outcomes of disabled graduates has gained increased international attention among researchers, policymakers and HE practitioners. This article explores the early employment transitions and experiences of ne…
View article: ‘Let’s play together for entrepreneurship!’ Engaging actors in academic capitalism within the policy discourse on entrepreneurship
‘Let’s play together for entrepreneurship!’ Engaging actors in academic capitalism within the policy discourse on entrepreneurship Open
Since the early 2000s, the promotion of entrepreneurship in higher education (HE) has become a central aim of educational policy in Europe. We apply a critical discourse approach to examine entrepreneurship HE policy discourse in the frame…
View article: ‘You have to work ten times harder’: first-in-family students, employability and capital development
‘You have to work ten times harder’: first-in-family students, employability and capital development Open
Since the 1990s, UK government policy has sought to increase access to higher education, with a plan to improve social mobility. However, enhancing the employability prospects for all has proven difficult to achieve through widening partic…
View article: Scarring effects for young people in challenging economic times: a conceptual synthesis and future policy and research agenda
Scarring effects for young people in challenging economic times: a conceptual synthesis and future policy and research agenda Open
A renewed conceptual framework of labour market scarring is developed. Due to economic shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic, labour market scarring presents an important policy problem. The paper first outlines the theoretical mainstream v…
View article: Conceptualising transitions from higher education to employment: navigating liminal spaces
Conceptualising transitions from higher education to employment: navigating liminal spaces Open
This article develops and applies the concept of liminality andliminal identities to illustrate the relative positioning of graduateswithin the transitional spaces of moving from one institutionalcontext to another and navigating an uncert…
View article: Initial employability development: introducing a conceptual model integrating signalling and social exchange mechanisms
Initial employability development: introducing a conceptual model integrating signalling and social exchange mechanisms Open
This article develops a conceptual understanding of initial employability development, specifically the transition into first career destinations. Substantial previous research focuses on the role of individuals in ensuring employment read…
View article: In the name of employability: Faculties and futures for the arts and humanities in higher education
In the name of employability: Faculties and futures for the arts and humanities in higher education Open
This introductory overview sets out the scope and aims of the special issue, which is concerned with establishing more meaningful understandings and discourses on the relationship between arts and humanities and graduate employability. The…
View article: Introduction: Rethinking Graduate Employability in Context
Introduction: Rethinking Graduate Employability in Context Open
This book offers critical multidisciplinary analyses of graduate employability, which have thus far been scarce and often scattered. The book examines employability from macro, meso and micro perspectives: higher education policy, the labo…
View article: Epilogue
Epilogue Open
This edited collection has offered conceptually informed and innovative scholarship on graduate employability. The approach developed in these chapters has been informed by sociological, social-psychological and philosophical approaches wh…
View article: Graduating in uncertain times: The impact of <scp>COVID</scp>‐19 on recent graduate career prospects, trajectories and outcomes
Graduating in uncertain times: The impact of <span>COVID</span>‐19 on recent graduate career prospects, trajectories and outcomes Open
This article examines the impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on recent UK graduates' initial employment outcomes and how they experience the transition into a challenging labour market context. We draw on longitudinal survey and interview da…
View article: When masses meet markets: credentialism and commodification in twenty-first century Higher Education
When masses meet markets: credentialism and commodification in twenty-first century Higher Education Open
The institutional form and conception of Higher Education have changed through the growth of mass higher education, which in many national systems now operates on market logics. Drawing on theories of credentialism, this article provides a…
View article: Career values and proactive career behaviour among contemporary higher education students
Career values and proactive career behaviour among contemporary higher education students Open
The paper draws on evidence from a survey of Australian and UK students (N = 433) on students’ career values and their relationship to their proactivity in career self-management. Much of the dominant approaches to careers have focused on …
View article: Conceptions of the value of higher education in a measured market
Conceptions of the value of higher education in a measured market Open
A critical analysis is developed of the dominant meanings of value in marketised higher education. In policy terms, this has become informed by the logics of the measured market whereby value has become synonymous with economic return and …
View article: Resources and readiness: The graduate capital perspective as a new approach to employability
Resources and readiness: The graduate capital perspective as a new approach to employability Open
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View article: Forms of graduate capital and their relationship to graduate employability
Forms of graduate capital and their relationship to graduate employability Open
Purpose In the context of far-reaching changes in higher education and the labour market, there has been extensive discussion on what constitutes graduate employability and what shapes graduates’ labour market outcomes. Many of these discu…
View article: Graduate Employability in Context
Graduate Employability in Context Open
This book explores the highly significant and contested area of graduate employability and employment which is paid so much attention by those in the media and policy-makers. This is driven largely by concerns over the wider economic impac…