One of the commitments of our COST Action (23112) Critical Perspectives on Career and Career Guidance is to publish an edited book bringing together the research of Action members.

We are pleased to announce that our book proposal has been accepted by Routledge and will be published as part of the Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism.

The creation of the book proposal has been a lengthy and consultative process, beginning with a call for chapter proposals that were presented at our Manchester launch event in 2025. The book has five editors and twenty-seven contributing authors from across ten European countries. It reflects the interests of members across all working groups of the Action.

The anticipated publication of the book will be early in 2028.

The editors view the publication of the book as marking an important milestone in the evolution of Critical Career Studies, emerging from our Action. The book will engage with pressing issues in contemporary career studies scholarship, particularly those that bridge theory, research, and the policy and practice of career education, counselling, and guidance. Addressing structural, organisational, and individual dimensions, the book will offer both critique and proposes alternatives aimed at transformative change. Across the chapters, conventional paradigms will be challenged and new directions presented for understanding and enacting career development theory, research, practice and policy.

The editors of the book are:

Fiona Christie – Manchester Metropolitan University (UK).

Filomena Parada  – Lusófona University, CeiED – Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Education and Development (Portugal).

Ghazal Vahidi – International Centre for Guidance Studies (iCeGS) Derby (UK).

Mariana Lucas Casanova – Centre for Research and Innovation in Education (inED), ESE, Polytechnic of Porto (Portugal).

Ábel Bereményi – Faculty of Education, University of Barcelona (Spain).

Further details of individual chapters and authors will follow.  The editors are really grateful to authors for their patience and commitment to the project as well as to the Routledge editorial team and anonymous peer reviewers who gave us helpful feedback on the proposal which will strengthen it.