Call for Guest Editors – Critical Career Perspectives and the Dark Side of Careers
Dear Colleagues, Special Issue/module title: Rethinking Contemporary Careers: Career Challenges, Dark Sides and Career Guidance – Classical and Critical Research Perspectives Professor Ricky Gee and…
COCAG Grant Applications for 2027 Are Now Open
The COCAG Action is pleased to announce that applications for the 2027 round of COCAG grants are now open. These grants are designed to support…
Beyond a Summer School: Building the Next Generation of Career Guidance Researchers in Europe
Insights from the 13th ECADOC Summer School / COCAG COST Training Event, Dublin 2026 What makes a doctoral summer school truly valuable? Is it the…
‘Truthful’ Career Thinking – What is the value of integrating existentialism into career guidance?
WG3 Radical Career Imaginaries sub-group recently held another webinar with Robin Stevens, a Careers Education Team Leader at Kings College London and Doctoral Researcher at…
Reflecting on Work, Uncertainty and Career Imaginaries at ECADOC 2026
Thank you to Mariana Lucas Casanova for this reflection on the ECADOC summer school. Mariana is a Psychologist with over 20 years of experience working…
Who gains from university career services? New evidence from Catalonia
New open-access article on the earnings effect of university career services and what it means for a critical approach to guidance from Rosario Scandurra, a…
Navigating freedom in the labour market
Thank you to Peter Robertson for this post exploring the trade-offs from career choice in his book Careers and Freedom: A new perspective on career…
Characteristics and Outcomes of On-Location Digital Platform Work: Implications for Worker Health
Working group 1 is continuing their webinar series on 26th October 10:00-11:00 UTC+0 with a presentation on on-location digital platform work from Moisés Ferreira. On-location…
Cruel Optimism and Career Guidance – (Beyond) The Case of Non-EU Student in Finnish Universities
On 22nd September Jarkko Immonen (MA) explored the possibilities of cruel optimism as a conceptual tool for (eco)socially just career guidance praxis and research. Below…
Something went wrong. Please refresh the page and/or try again.
Newsletter
What is COST?
COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is a funding agency for research and innovation networks. Our Actions help connect research initiatives across Europe and enable scientists to grow their ideas by sharing them with their peers. This boosts their research, career and innovation. For more information please visit the official COST Action website www.cost.eu.
