Dr Emma Bolger

A new article written by Uuganaa Ramsay and I is available in this month's issue of the Career Development Institute publication, Career Matters.  Uuganna is the founding trustee of the Mongol Identity , and recently appeared on BBC Radio Scotland talking about her work, which you can listen again to here . In our article we discuss the limitations of unconscious bias training, how career development professionals can actively mitigate their own biases in their work and practical positive action approaches that can be taken to address racial stereotyping and oppression. Our article can be viewed online here . 

I have made an English language translation  available of this article written by Uuganaa Ramsay and I, which was commissioned by Skills Norway and published on 28 August 2020. You can access it here .  The original article remains online and is available in Norwegian here .

An article on unconscious bias and white privilege in career guidance practice, co-authored by Uuganaa Ramsay and, I has been published today by Skills Norway and is available here:  https://veilederforum.no/artikler/praksis/ubevisste-fordommer-og-hvite-privilegier-i-karriereveiledning?fbclid=IwAR0XioK7v8AVK5xmCoOIGBehrr91m_tpfidJF5loYci6rp82H_C3u0zG74E

This month will see the publication (in translation) of an article I have written in collaboration with Uuganaa Ramsay , on the importance of addressing unconscious bias and white privilege in career guidance practice, for Skills Norway . In addition we will be delivering a webinar  on this topic on 27th August, for the same organisation.  We will be sharing our work more widely in coming months. Students on the Postgraduate Diploma in Career Guidance and Development at UWS can also look forward to seeing more in relation to race-aware career practice in their learning this year, as we focus on what we can do as a sector to address racism in our society. 

Thanks to some excellent suggestions from students who have recently completed their Career Development Institute Qualification in Career Development professional reports with us at UWS, I've been able to add 5 new OERs to my list of Open Educational Resources for Career Development and CareerDevelopment Professionals . This takes the total to 27 free, open, online resources for you and your clients! Many thanks to Pritpal Kalsi, Laurence Hansen, Elsa Olaru and Cliona McMenamin for their contributions!

Long overdue, in my opinion, but our national skills and careers services in the UK have launched new portals that collate and promote OERs for skills development. Skills Development Scotland have launched a Free Online Courses portal: https://www.myworldofwork.co.uk/learn-and-train/find-free-online-courses The National Careers Service (England) has launched The Skills Toolkit: https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/find-a-course/the-skills-toolkit If you are a career development professional and you complete any courses that you find useful for your self or for your clients, let me know and I will add to the  OERs for Career Development page on my website (if they aren't already listed there!). Note that as I am based in the UK, I post resources that are UK-orientated. Some of the courses listed via the portals above may be targeted at a non-UK audience, so always try them out before recommending!