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

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

• 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]
• Learning for career and labour market transitions - individual biographies, with Professor Alan J Brown, Professor Jenny M Bimrose - 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
• ESRC Seminar Series: Re-framing Service Delivery, Professional Practices and Professional Identities in UK Careers Work, with Sally-Anne Barnes (Institute for Employment Research), Laurie Cohen and John Arnold (Loughborough University), Funded by: ESRC, Project Start Date: 01/11/2010 Project End Date: 31/10/2012 [details]
  
  

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Bimrose, J., Barnes, S-A., Brown, A. and Hughes, D. (2011) 'The role of career adaptability in skills supply', Wath-upon-Dearne, London: UK Commission for Employment and Skills, [Technical Report] [view]
• Bimrose, J., Hughes, D. & Barnes, S-A (2011) 'Integrating new technologies into careers practice: Extending the knowledge base', Wath-upon-Dearne, London: UK Commission for Employment and Skills, [Report] [view]
• Bimrose, J. and McNair, S.(2011) 'Career support for migrants: Transformation or Adaptation?' Journal Of Vocational Behavior 78 (3), 321 - 392 (0001-8791)
• Bimrose, J. and Barnes, S. -A. (2010) 'Labour market information (LMI), information communications and technologies (ICT) and information, advice and guidance (IAG): the way forward?', 1 - 57, London: UK Commission for Employment and Skills, [Report to Government] [view]
• Bimrose, J., Barnes, S. -A. and Attwell, G. (2010) 'An investigation into the skills needed by connexions personal advisers to develop internet-based guidance: full report', 1 - 65, Reading: CfBT Education Trust, Report of an empirical investigation into the demand from young people for internet-based guidance, together with the readiness of connexions services to deliver. (Full & Executive Reports are available online.) [Research Paper] [view]

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Conferences

RESEARCH DEGREES SUPERVISED

• Definition of the professional identity of Career Guidance practitioners, Date of Completion: 2014
• The work-role transition experience of business professionals: The case of Argentinean MBAs (Pamela Suzanne), Date of Completion: 2013