UKCES

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, with a continuing research interest in supporting the use of ICT in practice. One example is through the MATURE project. Another is through the development of a website (the National Guidance Research Forum website) to support and facilitate the integration of guidance research with practice. A particular feature of this website is the high quality, impartial labour market information, produced in collaboration with seventeen Sector Skills Councils.

Other current and recent projects include: a qualitative, five year longitudinal case study, which is examining the nature of effective guidance for the Department of Education and Skills; 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.