2024
We have chapters in the wonderful book by Dr Elizabeth Knight and Dr Belgin Okay-Somerville, ‘Young People’s Career Development and Wellbeing: An Enquiry across National Education Systems Based on Longitudinal Data’!
- Daria and Charoula: ‘Reimagining the Relationship Between Career Transitions and Wellbeing: An Insight into Graduate Higher Education Journeys in the UK’
- Valentina, Dorel and Giulio: ‘Analyzing the Gap Between Job, Earning, and Career Satisfaction Among Young Graduates: Evidence from Italy’
For more information, see: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-68229-2
2023
September 2023
Luca gave a paper, ‘Is Green Innovation Skill-Biased? Evidence from Italian Provinces,’ at the workshop ‘Unequal Graduate Outcomes: International Perspectives over the Long-Term‘, organised by Dr Golo Henseke, and jointly supported by Centre for Global Higher Education and the Society for Research into Higher Education, 11-12 September 2023.
August 2023
A mini reunion! A joint presentation by Giulio, Dorel, Charoula and Daria, although not everyone could be there. ‘Reimagining the Relationship Between Career Transitions and Well-being: studying the UK and Italy,’ presented as part of a Symposium at the European Conference on Educational Research, University of Glasgow, 22 August 2023.
December 2023
Charoula and Daria gave a paper at the Studies in Higher Education Conference, ‘Is work experience during higher education gendered?: Access and outcomes in the UK.’, on the 8 December 2023.
2021
July 2021
Charoula gave a paper at the Gender Work and Organisation conference (postponed from 2020) on ‘Work experience during higher education in Italy and the UK: how do women ‘choose’?’, 02 July 2021.
June 2021
Charoula presented a paper at the 19th ILERA World Congress on ‘Gender inequalities in work experience during higher education: comparing Italy and the UK’ on the 22 June 2021.
2020
November 2020
Giulio was invited to give a seminar based on our research at the National Research Council of Italy (IRCrES – CNR), ‘How do internships undertaken during higher education affect graduates’ labour market outcomes in Italy and the United Kingdom’ on the 20th of November 2020.
29 June-3 July 2020
We took part in the EAWOP Small Group Meeting on ‘Young people’s work, employment and careers’, organised by Belgin Okay-Somerville (University of Glasgow), Dora Scholarios (University of Strathclyde) and Rosalind Searle (University of Glasgow).
This was followed up by a digital event on LinkedIn, Illustrations of the Youth Employment Challenge: A Digital Exhibition, organised by Belgin Okay-Somerville (09-13 November 2020).
2020
‘A critical comparative analysis of the graduates’ transitions to employment in the UK and Italy.’ Oxford Brookes Funded project and website launch.
2019
August 2019
We organised a panel session on graduate transitions to employment at the ESA 2019 conference in Manchester. You can see the Abstracts book here.
July 2019
We took part in an invited ILO symposium on internships in Geneva, ‘From Education to Employment: How Internships and Traineeships are Challenging Labour Regulation’, organised by Prof Andrew Stewart (University of Adelaide), 11-12 July 2019.
May 2019
Daria was invited to present our research at the Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE) seminar series at the UCL Institute of Education, 02 May 2019.
April 2019
Some members of the graduate transitions network attended the 2019 Centre for Global Higher Education conference held at UCL Institute of Education.
January 2019
We set up the Graduate Transitions network / mailing list following the Symposium on the political economy of higher education and training, 13 July 2018: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/GRADUATE-TRANSITIONS
2018
Feb 2018-July 2018
Daria and Charoula successfully applied for IAS Visiting Fellow funding to invite Luca and Giulio to work in IER for one month in July 2018: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ier/research/graduatetransitions/
As part of this visiting fellowship, several events were organised, including: Seminar on European project management, 10 July 2018; Symposium on the political economy of higher education and training, 13 July 2018; IER lunchtime workshop 17 July 2018.
Graduate transitions to work 