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    Professor Jenny Bimrose

    Jenny Bimrose

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    Professorial Fellow and Deputy Director

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    Institute for Employment Research
    Room C0.09
    University of Warwick
    Coventry
    CV4 7AL
    Tel: 024 7652 4231
    Fax: 024 7652 4241
    Email: Jenny.Bimrose@warwick.ac.uk

     

     


    RESEARCH PROFILE


    Many research projects on which Jenny has worked have focused on the area of the theory and practice of career counselling and guidance and on gender. Ongoing research interests include supporting guidance practitioners in their use of labour market information in guidance; the theory and practice of careers guidance; the decision-making styles and career trajectories of individuals across Europe; the implications for career guidance of women's career development; and examining knowledge maturing processes within and between organisations.


    BACKGROUND


    With over thirty years experience in higher education, researching and teaching at post-graduate level, Jenny has extensive experience of external project management and consultancy, both in the UK and Europe. She is a Fellow of the Institute for Career Guidance, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a Research Associate at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa. She was a member of the Career Profession Task Force, convened by Government (2010-2012), lead manager for an ESRC seminar series on the careers profession (2010 - 2012) and Co Editor for the British Journal for Guidance and Counselling. One particular research interest relates to supporting the use of ICT in careers practice. An example is through the MATURE project. Another is through the development of a website (the National Guidance Research Forum website), which was designed to support and facilitate the integration of careers guidance research with practice. A particular feature of this website is the high quality, impartial labour market information, produced in collaboration with Sector Skills Councils.

    Another strand of research relates to the role of careers guidance in the career biographies of young people and adults making transitions into and through the labour market. Current and recent projects in this area include: a qualitative, five year longitudinal case study, which evaluated the effectiveness of careers guidance for adults, undertaken for the [then] Department of Education and Skills; research undertaken for the European Commission into the career trajectories of adults across Europe; a qualitative evaluation of a career adaptability framework being developed from an international research study, funded by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills; and an international comparative study of the career trajectories of older women across six countries. Other research includes an investigation into information, advice and guidance offered by Sector Skills Councils; a feasibility study into the provision of local labour market information (LMI) for guidance for Ufi learndirect; a national evaluation of the skills coaching pilot in England for the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP); the development of an on-line module to support guidance practitioners' use LMI in practice (LMI online learning module); a literature review for DWP on skills diagnostics and screening tools; and qualitative research into careers education and guidance provision within Connexions Kent & Medway.



    CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS


    • Developing a careers LMI data tool, with Mr Duncan Adam, Prof Robert A Wilson, Dr David W Owen, Professor Anne E Green, Dr Sally-Anne Barnes - Institute for Employment Research , Funded by: Department for Business Innovation and Skills, Project Start Date: 05/11/2012 Project End Date: 27/03/2015 [details]
    • Continuous Social Learning in Knowledge Networks - MATURE, with Alan Brown, Sally-Anne Barnes (Institute for Employment Research), Funded by: European Commission, Project Start Date: 01/01/2008 Project End Date: 31/12/2013 [details]
    • LMI module update - supplement, with Dr Sally-Anne Barnes - Institute for Employment Research -, Funded by: National STEM Centre, Project Start Date: 26/02/2013 Project End Date: 31/10/2013
    • Learning for career and labour market transitions - individual biographies, with Professor Alan J Brown, (Institute for Employment Research), Dr Barbara A Merrill (Centre for Lifelong Learning), Funded by: CEDEFOP, Project Start Date: 02/01/2012 Project End Date: 28/06/2013
    • LMI for All: Developing a careers LMI data tool, Funded by: UKCES, Project Start Date: 01/11/2012 Project End Date: 30/05/2013
    • LMI for All: Developing a careers LMI data tool, with Jenny Bimrose , Rob Wilson , Sally-Anne Barnes , David Owen , Anne Green , Yuxin Li, Duncan Adam , Luke Bosworth , Peter Millar , IER , Funded by: UKCES, , Project Start Date: 01/11/2012 Project End Date: 30/05/2013

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    SELECTED PUBLICATIONS


    • Bimrose, J. and Hearne, L. (2012) 'Resilience and Career Adaptability: Qualitative Studies of Adult Career counselling' Journal Of Vocational Behavior 81 338 - 344 [article]
    • Brown, A., Bimrose, J., Barnes, S-A. and Hughes, D. (2012) 'The role of career adaptabilities for mid-career changers' Journal Of Vocational Behavior 80 (3 ), 754 - 761 [article]
    • McMahon, M., Watson, M. and Bimrose, J. (2012) 'Career Adaptability: A Qualitative Understanding from the Stories of Older Women' Journal Of Vocational Behavior 80 762 - 768 [article]
    • Bimrose, J. (2012) 'Gender' in Handbook of Counselling and Psychotherapy, 25 - 29, Editors: C. Feltham & I. Horton, London: Sage
    • Bimrose, J. (2012) 'Career development & women' in Career Development: Global Issues and Challenges, 25 - 30, Editors: M. Watson & M. McMahon, NY, USA: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

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    RESEARCH DEGREES SUPERVISED

    • Definition of the professional identity of Career Guidance practitioners (John Gough), Date of Completion: 2018
    • On-line career counselling (Tannis Goddard), Date of Completion: 2018
    • The impact of career guidance on well-being outcomes (Peter Robertson), Date of Completion: 2012
    • The work-role transition experience of business professionals: The case of Argentinean MBAs (Pamela Suzanne), Date of Completion: 2012

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    Editorial Board Membership:

    2006–on-going Editorial Board (Associate) for the British Journal for Guidance and Counselling

    1998–2000 Editorial Board for the professional journal of the Institute of Career Guidance: ‘Career Guidance Today’.

    1999–2001 Editorial Board for the professional journal of the British Association of Psychology: ‘Psychology’.

    Membership of learned or professional societies:

    • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (1993 – present)
    • Institute for Career Guidance: Chair: Research Committee (1997 – 2004); Research Committee member (2004 – present); Chair: Ethics & Standards Committee (2004 – 2007); Awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Institute (2003) – by process of peer review.
    • Member of the National Association of Educational Guidance for Adults
    • Member of the International Association of Educational & Vocational Guidance
    • Member of the National Career Development Association




     

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