Employability Symposium 2023: Lighting the Labyrinth: Enhancing Student Success through the 3Es

Overview

We know that, regardless of discipline, developing graduates for successful trajectories beyond university is of critical importance. Enabling our graduates to have a positive impact, whether that be through creating value that is economic, social, cultural, or environmental – or indeed a mixture of each, is the embodiment of this success.

The event, by way of oral presentations, workshops and posters, will provide a space to discuss and share latest practices in embedding employability among a network of peers. The symposium will focus on employability initiatives that are inclusive and provide equitable opportunities and will address the following themes within higher education:

Enterprise Education
Sustainability
Authentic Assessment
Work Integrated Learning
The 3Es from a careers perspective
Inter/Multi-disciplinary approaches

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Date: 25 April 2023

Venue: theStudio, Manchester

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Symposium aims

To provide an open and supportive environment within which to share and discuss contemporary practice and initiatives in employability;
To identify challenges, propose solutions and create a safe space to think forward;
To develop a principled, and evidence-informed, approach to devising subsequent support and guidance for change(s) with regards to enhancing employability;
To develop a compendium of case studies that will help shape and inform the sector.

Who should attend?

Teaching practitioners including: heads of departments, academic programme leaders and developers, all lecturing staff, learning technologists and staff focused on employability including those in careers departments and with employer liaison roles.

Programme

Employability Symposium 2023 Programme

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Abstracts

Employability Symposium 2023 Abstracts

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Facilitators

Stuart Norton, PFHEA

Senior Consultant, Education
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Advance HE

Stuart has over 18 years’ experience within higher education with extensive experience in designing and developing strategic, institutional-wide change. In his role as Senior Consultant, Education at Advance HE, he focuses on both thought leadership and providing evidence-based solutions to support institutions, educators and students.

Dr Iwi Ugiagbe-Green

Reader
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Manchester Metropolitan University

Dr Iwi Ugiagbe-Green has over 20 years’ experience of working in higher education and nearly 15 years’ experience of supporting students’ transition to graduate labour market. In the last five years her work has focused on race and its intersection with other characteristics within the context of student education, experience, transition and progression to graduate labour market and postgraduate study. Iwi is an expert on race equity issues that impact students in higher education and graduate employment. Her work is inter-disciplinary and collaborative.

Michelle Phillips

Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of Undergraduate Programmes
,
Royal Northern College of Music

Michelle Phillips is a Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of Undergraduate Programmes at the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK), and Chair of the subject association MusicHE.