Theme: Local - global tensions in career transitions and guidance

Time October 1, 2025, arrival day

16:00 - 20:00

Registration and information

19:00

Room: Glæsigerði

Conference dinner - opening and welcoming
3 course dinner without wine, Price: 11.000

Time October 2, 2025

08:00 Registration/Info

9:00 - 10:00

Room: Aðalgerði

Keynote

Navigating local-global tensions: Disrupting and rethinking career guidance

Prof. Dr. Nancy Arthur, University of South Australia and University of Calgary, Canada

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee and poster sessions

10:30 - 12:00

Parallel Sessions 1

Room: Aðalgerði

Session 1A

Chair: Randi Boelskifte Skovhus

Career guidance approaches


Assessing the pupil in guidance counselling

Liisa Voutilainen

Adults’ transitions from a life-long learning perspective. Bridging the tensions between local and global 

Ingela Bergmo Prvulovic
Anna Bilon-Piórko

Passing and talking over in guidance Interactions: An ethnographic study on intensified guidance counselling in Finnish basic education

Hanna Juulia Lonka
Anne-Mari Souto
Heidi Vartainen Huilla

Navigating local-global tensions through student voices: A critical approach to career guidance in Danish schools

Kristiana Mariager-Anderson
Rie Thomsen
Randi Boelskifte Skovhus
Miriam Dimsits
Room: Glæsigerði

Session 1B

Chair: Tristram Hooley

Educational transitions and pathways


Developing career management skills in higher education: Career practitioners' conceptions at Finnish universities of applied sciences

Päivi Kauppila
Jaana Kettunen

Causing dilemmas. School staff supporting parents of students in critical educational transitions

Åsa Sundelin
Anneli Öljarstrand

Predictors of early school leaving in the Nordics – comparison of Sweden and Finland

Piia Åminne
Olav Nygård

The Politics of Skills: Competing Visions of Education and Social Mobility

Ghazal Vahidi
Tristram Hooley
Room: Stjörnugerði

Session 1C

Chair: Stefan Lund

Migration transitions and careers


The challenges of social inclusion and recognition for career guidance of newly arrived migrant youth

Fredrik Hertzberg

Bridging school and migrant families – Multilingual tutors as new professionals in Finnish schools

Ninni Vivian Lankinen

Marketing rural education and producing rural workers? A mixed analysis on recruitment and employability within the Natural Resource programme

Elin Ennerberg
Janna Lundberg
Anna-Maria Fjellman


The aspirations–attainment paradox: educational transitions of immigrant youth

Stefan Lund
Andreas Voyer
Room: Þinggerði

Session 1D

Chair: Bo Klindt Poulsen

Policy, systems and discourse


How Marketisation Works as a Driver for an Academic-Vocational Divide in Three Nordic Countries

Mattias Nylund
Marianne Dovemark
Elsa Eiríksdóttir
Guðrún Ragnarsdóttir
Annette Rasmussen

Career perspectives at the political level of curriculum of higher education 

Kirstine Terese Stoksted
Laura Cordes Felby

How the Student union reproduced or challenged the idea of the technologist during the 20th Century 

Petronella Rosenquist

Career guidance as social practice: Counsellors’ strategies and dilemmas in the Danish municipal youth initiative

Bo Klindt Poulsen

 

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:30

Symposium and Interactive practice session

Room: Aðalgerði

Symposium A

Chair: Peter Gladoic Håkansson

FinnFram (Finna vägar i en tid av stora framtids-utmaningar), Research school in transitions, careers and guidance

Peter Gladoic Håkansson
Anna Pallin
Kicki Hägggblom
M. Ammar Syed
Elisabeth Berg
Ramajana Halilovic
Mahtab Eshagbeigi-Hosseini
Mato Bosnjak
Rida Nasri
Petronella Rosenquist
Room: Glæsigerði

Symposium B

Chair: Miika Petteri Kekki

Critical perspectives on the Finnish guidance and counselling policies and practices

Miika Petteri Kekki
Anne-Mari Souto
Kalle Vihtari
Hannele Pitkänen
Kirsi Raetsaari
Mira Kalalahti
Toni Kosonen
Janne Varjo
Room: Þinggerði

Symposium C

Chair: Åsa Sundelin

Co-creation symposium: Local-global and more-than-human entanglements in guidance practice

Mahtab Eshaghbeigi-Hosseini
Sanna Pauliina Toiviainen
Anna Bilon-Píorko
Sara Peltola
Miriam Dimsits
Room: Sáttagerði

Symposium D

Chair: Jónina Kárdal

Career education on thin ice at the edge of the world: Greenland, Faroe Islands and Iceland

Jónína Kárdal
Julianna Deirdre Hansen
Sif Einarsdóttir
Kulunnguaq Korneliussen
Lene Andersen

Room: Stjörnugerði

Interactive Practice session

Chair: Fjóla María Lárusdóttir

Guidance in pathways towards career development – integration/inclusion of immigrants

Fjóla María Lárusdóttir
Hildur Betty Kristjánsdóttir
Steinunn Björk Jónatansdóttir
Kristín Hjartardóttir

14:30 - 15:00 Coffee and poster sessions

15:00 - 16:30

Parallel Sessions 2

Room: Aðalgerði

Session 2A

Chair: Staffan Nilsson

Professional competences of career guidance councelors


School placement in educational guidance counselling Training: A model for professional growth

Ece Gokmenoglu
Fiona Casey

Professional competence in an era of complex tensions: The significance of counselors' emotional competence

Kirsten Marie Dalene

Green career guidance: Professional competencies, challenges and approaches

Korin Janette Grant

Career guidance counsellors’ experiences of the transition from higher education to professional practice in Sweden

Staffan Nilsson
Room: Glæsigerði

Session 2B

Chair: Fredrik Hertzberg

Integration and diversity in transitions and careers 


Building migration industry: Socialist Yugoslavia’s approach to labour migrants’ pre-departure training

Mato Bosnjak

Immigrant adult students talking back against their marginalized identification in University of Applied Sciences studies

Kirsi Maarit Autio
Anne-Mari Souto
Maija Korhonen

Can a role model intervention decrease inequality in access to higher education? First results from a comparative randomized controlled trial

Markus Kohlmeier
Heiður Hrund Jónsdóttir

Voices of transition: Newly arrived students’ Experiences of career guidance in Sweden 

Brendan Munhall
Fredrik hertzberg
Room: Stjörnugerði

Session 2C

Chair: Joakim Lindgren

Serving people in a vulnerable position


Together for the youth – Interdisciplinary collaboration between one-stop guidance centers and educational institutions in Finland

Päivi Pukkila
Jaakko Helander
Pasi Savonmãki

The Future laboratory method and its impact assessment in youth work

Sari Hannele Miettinen
Carmen Tomás Martínez

The highways of choice?

Kati Johanna Jokio

Navigating remedial and compensatory trajectories through the Swedish Introduction programme: how disadvantaged students make sense of their transitions.

Joakim Lindgren
Lisbeth Lundahl
Room: Þinggerði

Session 2D

Chair: Anne-Marie Souto

Social justice in higher education


The influence of habitus on philosophers’ educational and career paths: Social mobility in the shifting educational system in Iceland 

David Gudmundur Kristinsson
Berglind Ros Magnusdottir

Disappearing dreams

Rida Nasir

Tracking student trajectories in higher education: A longitudinal analysis of degree completion at the University of Iceland

Stefán Hrafn Jónsson

”We are human beings, Not robots”. Cruel optimism and the education-to-work fantasy in the career-related narration of Non-EU students in Finnish Universities

Jarkko Immonen
Anne-Mari Souto
Maija Korhonen
Room: Sáttagerði

Session 2E

Chair: Peter Gladoic Håkansson

Labour market transitions and careers


Negotiating creative futures
- Career orientations and professional identity formation of ‘behind and around the scenes’ students in Sweden and Denmark

Marie Wos

Recent graduates’ employability and job satisfaction

Tarja Tuononen
Heidi Hyytinen

Navigating career guidance: Balancing individual aspirations with labour market needs  

Malin Axelsson

From closed to open, to closed again. Recruitment practices and the local/global world

Peter Gladoic Håkansson

17:00 - 20:00

Reykjadalur hot spring hiking tour OR Visit to Geothermal Park - Meeting point in Lobby

Time October 3, 2025

8:00 - 9:00

Registration/Info

9:00 - 10:00

Room: Aðalgerði

Keynote

The role of career guidance in transforming (or perpetuating) educational inequalities

Prof. Dr. David Reimer, University of Iceland and Aarhus University

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee and Interactive poster sessions

10:30 - 12:00

Parallel Session 3

Room: Aðalgerði

Session 3A

Chair: Ida Holt Mathiesen

Career education and learning


Career education in preschool – Why and what?

Maria Lindblom Jonsson

How we learn about careers: An Illerisian approach to career learning

Julie Sikin Bhanji Jynge
Tristram Hooley

Life skills education and career learning in schools 

Ida Holth Mathiesen
Room: Glæsigerði

Session 3B

Chair: Gill Frigero

Education of career professionals


Understanding career guidance in the context of the Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration  

Hanna Owens Svennungsen

Who is responsible for ensuring that students receive career counselling? A study on schools in socio-economically vulnerable contexts

Elisabeth Berg

Phenomena impacting curriculum design in guidance and career counsellor education

Kati Mãenpää
Pirjo-Liisa Lehtelä

The career development handbook: groundwork and goals

Gill Frigerio,
Rosie Alexander
Tristram Hooley
Room: Stjörnugerði

Session 3C

Chair: Ingrid Bårdsdatter Bakke

Meeting needs of challenged youth


Dialogical skills and competences in interdisciplinary collaboration – case: One-Stop Guidance Centres

Riikka Michelsson
Päivi Pukkila

Navigating the transition gap -   stories of young adults and guidance counselors living and working in the transition gap

Ramajana Halilovic

Seeking social justice: co-creation with autistic students to create inclusive careers and employability provision

Keren Alexandra Coney

Young NEET gamers in a supported employment program in Norway 

Ingrid Bårdsdatter Bakke
Øyvind Snipstad
Sikin jynge
Room: Þinggerði

Session 3D

Chair: Rosie Alexander

Social Justice and emancipation in transition and guidance


Enactment of class and ethnicity in different school contexts in an urban Swedish environment. 

Mohammad Ammar Syed

Perspectives on social justice in career guidance: A comparative study of Catalonia and Sweden

Anna Pallin
Marc Martinez-Pons

Career practitioners as social justice advocates?

Miika Petteri Keeki

Conceptualising social justice in rural career guidance 

Rosie Alexander
Room: Sáttagerði

Session 3E

Chair: Toni Kosonen

Lifelong learning and guidance


Navigating uncertainty: Adult learners' access to educational and career guidance in the face of societal and personal challenges in Iceland

Helgi Þorbjörn Svavarsson
Berglind Rós Magnúsdóttir

Lifelong learning - A potent concept in transitional times

Hróbjartur Árnason

Constructing approaches to client work in public employment services: a Luhmannian systems theoretical perspective

Toni Kosonen
Anne-Mari Souto
Hanna Nuutinen
Heli Pesonen

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:30

Parallel and interactive discussion session 4

Room: Aðalgerði

Session 4A

Chair: Rie Thomsen

Theoretical perspectives on careers and transitions


Validating the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale (CAAS) in Norway

Ingrid Bårdsdatter Bakke
Hannah Svennungsen
Guðbjörg Vilhjálmsdóttir

"You should not remain here.": 
Opting for rural upper-secondary schools and challenging the meritocratic Ideal

Berglind Rós Magnúsdóttir
Unnur Edda Garðarsdóttir

Working with calling in context

Gill Frigerio,
Torild Schulstok

The emancipation of career

Tristram Hooley
Rie Thomsen
Room: Glæsigerði

Session 4B

Chair: Anna Maja Niemi

Inclusion and belonging in education and labor market


Everyday racism in Swedish school: Upper secondary students' experience and educational practices

Hassan Sharif

Analyzing activities of migrant women's solidarity network through the lenses of career support and relational co-agency

Sanna Pauliina Toiviainen

Vocational education for women and transitions in a historical perspective: The rise and fall of domestic education

Gun-Britt Wärvik
Åsa Broberg

The transitions and belonging of Swedish-speaking young people with learning disabilities in Finland  

Aarno Kauppila
Emilia Lahti
Anna-Maija Niemi
Room: Stjörnugerði

Session 4C

Chair: Tristram Hooley

Interactive discussion session


Critical perspectives on career and career guidance (COCAG): Opportunities for participation 

Tristram Hooley
Ghazal Vahidi
Ingela Bergmo Prvulovic
Room: Þinggerði

Session 4D

Chair: Fredrik Hertzberg

Interactive discussion session


Nordic journal of transitions, careers and guidance: Opportunities for early career researchers

Fredrik Hertzberg
Sif Einarsdóttir
Jaana Kettunen
Rie Thomsen
 

14:30 - 15:30

Room: Aðalgerði

Coffee and closing - summary and future events

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