This year has been notable for a lot of things, but it has also been the year in which we’ve really got this blog up and running. Over the last year we have appointed an editorial board for the Career guidance and social justice site, really started to attract new contributors and were visited by over 13,000 readers. We hope that 2021 will see this site getting even busier and making more of an impact on the field.

In the meantime here are the most popular posts on the site from 2020.

1. Why a social justice informed approach to career guidance matters in the time of coronavirus. At the start of the crisis we reflected on whether career guidance and social justice still mattered. Unsurprisingly we argued that they did! We also translated this article into lots of different languages. The Danish and French versions were particularly popular.
2. Turbulence in early graduate careers: the implications for career guidance. Fiona Christie’s piece based on her research with graduates highlighted the difference career voices that students adopt when thinking about their futures.
3. Sticking with them: How a targeted careers service in the South West responded to Covid-19. One of our key aims when we get up this site was to highlight examples of practice which were engaged with social justice. So it was great to include this piece about careers work in the South West of England from Oliver Jenkin.
4. Black Lives Matter and the careers profession – Silence is not an option. 2020 was as much the year of Black Lives Matter as it was of Covid. So, thank you to Tahira Majothi for this piece looking at how this issue has been addressed by careers services in UK higher education in this piece and a follow up post.
5. Is it time for a UBI in the UK? Asked Paul Gaunt, exploring how UBI might change the relationship between pay, work and career.
6. Why this year’s school results require careers professionals to do more than just advise. Another Covid-inspired post from me looking at the crisis that was unfolding in England’s schools during the summer of 2020.
7. Troublemaking in careers education. Aditi Arur explains why we need to be willing to make some trouble in careers work and disrupt the hegemony.
8. The Cop in the Head: a forum theatre and social justice approach to job interviews. An exciting piece on the use of forum theatre in careers work by Jacqueline McManus and Catherine Taylor.
9. How can Career Education Information and Advice and Guidance (CEIAG) professionals be agents for positive change in a Post-Covid-19 world? Asks Emma Le Blanc in this piece looking at Brexit and climate change.
10. Dancing your way to a new world. Nicola Hay discuss her practice and the importance of dancing your way to social justice.

Thanks to everyone who have contributed to the site over the last year. If you are interested in making a contribution to the site this year, then get in touch with one of the editors.