In this webinar, Albert Segura spoke with Tracey, who leads the careers service at the University of Aberdeen, about a way of working that few institutions apply with real discipline: treating research as core practice, not an afterthought.
Over many years, her team has built a career service that runs practitioner-led research projects, designs support around how students genuinely behave, and rigorously critiques the tools and platforms it already relies on.
- Why research-informed decision-making is a career service's strongest defence against hype and short-term thinking
- How Aberdeen runs practitioner-led research projects, securing funding, designing studies, and feeding findings back into degree programmes
- How to rigorously critique the tools and platforms you already have and decide what's genuinely working for students
- How to build a strategic planning rhythm that keeps career services ahead of constant change
- Current questions about how today's students consume information and approach the job search, and why the "vacancy gap" persists
Watch the full recording below.