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The Inception Report for this Nuffield Foundation funded project has been published. It has been developed in consultation with the thirty person project Advisory Group which includes widespread representation from across the careers sector.

Careers advice is a critical component of UK education and work transitions, particularly for disadvantaged groups. Around 33% of students currently use Large language model (LLM) tools for guidance, but policy makers, service managers, and practitioners lack evidence on how well they perform.

A new project, led by IER’s Associate Professor Peter Dickinson and funded by the Nuffield Foundation, will address this evidence gap. The project will develop and pilot a framework to evaluate LLM-powered careers advice tools against a human adviser baseline. Further education students and advisors from college around the UK will take part. The advisory group, chaired by Huw Morris, University College London, met in-person at IER this month, bringing a wealth of experience from the Higher Education and Skills sector.

Evidence based research on , commissioned by Country Durham and led by dmh associates, with contributions from the IER, has just been published.

Deirdre Hughes OBE, Associate Professor, has been working with Guest Editors from Derby, Dublin and Maynooth Universities on a newly published British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, on 'Praxis in Guidance and Counselling: New Frontiers'. An open link to the Introduction is available on the .

This , co-authored by Dr Sally-Anne Barnes and Professors Jenny Bimrose and Alan Brown, reports the findings from a phenomenographic study of career experts’ conceptions of systems development in lifelong guidance settings. The results show that conceptions of systems development in lifelong guidance varied from minimal, aspirational, strategic to systemic.