Scottish Student Conference 2025: event resources

This annual collaborative conference was delivered by the Career Development Institute, Edinburgh Napier University, University of the West of Scotland, and Skills Development Scotland on 6 February 2025

To support students further, we are sharing some useful documents below.

Speakers' presentations and recordings

We are grateful to our speakers for kindly sharing their presentations (only content approved for sharing has been listed below).


Keynote 1: Data Protection legislation 
Diana-Leigh Watt (Napier)
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Keynote 2: Career registration in higher education 
Dr Bob Gilworth
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Keynote 3: Higher Education career services use of data 
Jane Campbell and Andy Blunt
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Workshop 1: Using machine learning to enhance the provision of labour market intelligence  
Aleksander Bielinski  
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Workshop 1: The guidance counsellor in Ireland 
Dr Petra Elftorp
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Workshop 2: Where to next? Post-school transitions and career decision-making among young people in Scotland: Insights from the Growing Up in Scotland study
Hannah Glover 
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Workshop 2: Personalisation versus Privacy: Designing a career information chatbot
Marianne Wilson 
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Keynote 4: The SDS Data Hub 
Taylor Stewart
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Keynote 5: Customer Voice  
Debbie Pavia and Graeme Smith
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