This website is designed to facilitate information sharing and discussion within the COCAG project, as well as to share content from around the world that aligns with COCAG’s aims. Members are encouraged to submit articles or items that address social justice, sustainability, or critical perspectives on career in policy, practice, or research. To propose an article, please contact Ghazal Vahidi at G.vahidi@derby.ac.uk.

We are happy to accept contributions from practitioners and researchers who are involved in delivering, researching, supporting and theorising career guidance. There is no single ideological or theoretical line that defines the site but to ensure all published material aligns with our core themes, contributors must clearly link their content to at least one of the following themes:

1- Understanding career challenges and changes:
explore how the challenges and changes in contemporary careers can be identified, analyzed, and understood. contributions should provide insights into these transformations and their implications.

2- Policy responses to career challenges:
discuss how policymakers can effectively respond to the evolving challenges faced by individuals in their careers. submissions should highlight strategies, frameworks, or case studies that address policy implications.

3- Critical approaches in career guidance practice:
propose ways in which career guidance practices can adopt a more critical stance to better address the changing world. content should demonstrate innovative approaches or critiques of existing practices.

The style of this site is as a blog rather than an academic article or textbook (although we would also like to share news about new academic articles). There are no ‘hard rules’ on blogging style, but the following should be helpful for contributors.

• We welcome a wide range of different media on the site including essays, interviews, films, audio files, drawings and learning resources.
• Most content should be short (less than 1000 words). It is fine for some to be very short (e.g. just a paragraph or two and direction to a useful resource).
• Some posts are longer reads (probably 1000-3000 words). These should be broken up with sub-headings to make them easier for people to digest.
• We aim for posts to be able to be accessed by as wide a range of people as possible. Ideally posts should be in English (or include an English translation). But we are willing to include any posts submitted in any of the languages spoken in COST partner countries. Where a translation into a second (or more) language can be provided that is great.
• Posts should hyperlink to other resources. Footnotes and bibliographies should not normally be used.