Program 

10:30am: Welcome: Mariana Lucas Casanova, Working Group 1 Leader (Escola Superior de Educação – Instituto Politécnico do Porto) 

Workshop “Building networks and social capital for a paradigm shift”  

Richard Gee – Working Group 1 Vice-Leader (Nottingham Trent University) 

This workshop will provide reflexive insight into the aims of the working group 1 (WG 1: The challenges and changes in career in the contemporary world) of the COST Action on “Critical perspectives on career and career guidance”. Considering that this project’s main feature is its focus on the development of critical perspectives on career and career guidance, through this workshop the leadership of WG 1 aims to offer participants the opportunity to reflect on what it means to be critical so that WG 1 members develop a clear conceptualisation of critical approaches that can then influence the work developed within this project. 

Therefore, during this workshop main interdisciplinary influences to critical theory and critical approaches will be presented, from the Frankfurt School (e.g., Adorno; Horkheimer), Poststructuralism (e.g., Foucault, Derrida), Decolonial perspectives (e.g., Spivak), as well as the career studies literature that outline critical and radical conceptualisations to career development (Watts, 1996; Mignot, 2001; Hooley et al, 2018). This introduction aims to frame what is expected from WG members: to question who benefits from particular research, policy or practice. Examples of critical approaches to different areas of research related to WG 1 will be presented to then offer participants a practical exercise in which they will be invited to develop critical research questions for previous work or for the six subgroups that have been identified within WG 1. Thus, through the network and social capital developed within this WG we hope to contribute to a paradigm shift in work and career studies, taking on our social and political responsibilities for the development of scientific knowledge, policy-making and career counselling practice. 

Link to video: https://youtu.be/Scx7TyZhun0

1:30pm: Show and Tell 

1:30pm: Opportunities provided through this COST Action (followed by Q&A) 

Members will introduce themselves and present contacts made through COCAG, their experiences in this COST Action and proposals for joint publications, projects or applications for funding.  

Members presenting: 

• Iva Černja Rajter, Institute of Social Science Ivo Pilar 

• André Borges, University of Lausanne, Switzerland  

• Ozlem Inanc, Isik University, İstanbul, Turkey 

• Sara Peltola, University of Jyväskylä, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Finland  

• Teresa Maria Sgaramella, FISPPA Department University of Padova, Italy 

• Rosario Scandurra, Barcelona School of Management – Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain 

• Evrim EROL, Kütahya Dumlupınar University, Turkey 

• Louise Oldridge, Nottingham Business School, UK 

Leaders and Vice-Leaders: 

• Richard Gee – Working Group 1 Vice-Leader, Nottingham Trent University, UK 

• Limor Kessler Ladelsky – Working Group 1 Vice-Leader, Bar Ilan University, Israel 

• Mariana Lucas Casanova, Working Group 1 Leader, Escola Superior de Educação – Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal 

3:00pm: The experience and future of WG1 subgroups (followed by Q&A) 

Subgroups	Subgroup Leaders	Affiliation:
Careers in Crisis	Melike Günbey	Giresun University, Turkey
	Sanja Petkovska	Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research, Belgrade, Serbia
Socio-technological careering	Róbert Hanák	University of Economics in Bratislava, Faculty of Business Management, Department of Information Management, Bratislava, Slovakia
	ESRA DOGRU HUZMELI	ISTANBUL GEDIK UNIVERSITY, Turkey
Lifelong and lifewide learning in career	Tanja Schroot	University of Turin, Italy
Career imaginaries	Judit Vegh (to be confirmed)	ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Doctoral School of Psychology, Hungary
Diversity and career	Sanna Pauliina Toiviainen	University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway

Link to video: https://youtu.be/tL8KJx61F8Q