Sage Handbook of Graduate Employability

This Handbook brings together the latest research on graduate employability into one authoritative volume. Dedicated parts guide readers through topics, key issues and debates relating to delivering, facilitating, achieving and evaluating graduate employability. Chapters offer critical and reflective positions, providing examples of a range of student and graduate destinations, and cover a wide range of topics from employability development, to discipline differences, gender, race and inclusion issues, entrepreneurialism, and beyond.

Showcasing positions and voices from diverse communities, industries, political spheres and cultural landscape, this book will support the research of students, researchers and practitioners across a broad range of social science areas.

Part I Facilitating and Achieving Graduate Employability

Part II Segmenting Graduate Employability: Subject by Subject Considerations

Part III Graduate Employability and Inclusion

Part IV Country and Regional Differences

Tania Broadley is Pro Vice-Chancellor Education at the University of Canberra, where she provides leadership and strategic direction for the advancement, development and improvement of the student learning experience and outcomes at the University. Tania is a teacher educator first and foremost with experience in academic leadership, university governance, and curriculum development, with research concentrated in the field of educational technologies, teacher education and academic professional development. Tania was a member of the AITSL National Expert Advisory Group and a foundational member of the QTPA development team at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT).

Dr Miriam Firth is a Senior Lecturer in Education Management and Leadership, in the Institute of Education, within the University of Manchester, UK. Her research focuses on Vocational Education, particularly Leisure, Hospitality, Events and Tourism Education. She chairs the AGCAS Creative Industries task group, and leads in Assessment for the Flexible Learning Project across the University of Manchester. With 15 years UK Higher Education lecturing experience Miriam has taught and supervised students on all programme levels. She has worked with the Higher Education Statistics Agency to support development of new national Employability metrics and published textbooks on Employability to support vocational students.

Professor Emma Hunt is the Vice Chancellor of Falmouth University which specialises in creative and cultural subjects.  Professor Hunt has long standing in regional skills policy and has been chair of the Dorset Skills and Advisory Board which saw the implementation of the Dorset Skills Plan and annual reports in implementing at regional level national Government policy in England.  She is also a member of the Skills steering group for the British Academy and a steering group member of the Knowledge Exchange Concordat.  She has held posts at Derby, Huddersfield and University of Arts London, as well as visiting professor at Kunming University in China.

John Neugebauer is a Visiting Fellow at Bristol Business School, University of the West of England. He has held managerial appointments in the UK National Health Service, and senior HR management roles with Lloyds Bank International, and Lloyds Bank. He has lectured at undergraduate and post graduate levels with The University of Bath, University of Bristol, Open University (in the UK and Europe), and the University of the West of England. He has been an external examiner for Bristol Dental School, and the University of Plymouth. John has worked as a consultant to small and large organisations, both in his own capacity and as part of Knowledge Exchange activities with higher education institutions. His first degree was from the University of Lancaster, and post graduate education and Ph D from the University of Bristol. He is a qualified coach and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.