Susan Mate
Biographic Data
| ID | 4412335 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Mate |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Mate |
| SIGNATURE | MATE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Education Services, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9148-129X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Integrating design processes and narrative approaches in career guidance
Design processes and narrative approaches are increasingly used in career guidance, yet their theoretical grounding and practical applications remain limited. This study critically examines the strengths and challenges of these approaches before presenting an integrated model—Co-Designing Career Narratives (CCN) to bridge theory and practice. Aligning design thinking’s action-oriented process with narrative therapy’s meaning-making techniques, CC…
Re-storying career practitioners’ professional identities as career and employability specialists through an online WIL capstone
Pedagogical partnerships are rarely used to explore how students develop agency through Work Integrated Learning (WIL). This study contributes to this gap by exploring how pedagogical partnerships between students, industry experts and subject leaders in a postgraduate online WIL capstone assisted students to gain clarity about their professional identities as careers practitioners. To further scholarly understanding and appreciation for pedagogi…
Re-authoring career narratives
Narrative Career Therapy (NCT) is recognised in this paper as having relevance for career practitioners who are working to create meaning for their clients in complex work life situations.Re-authoring Career Narratives is described as a practice that involves principles of NCT and these principles contribute to the exploration of agentive development.Re-authoring Career Narratives is demonstrated to support clients to navigate the reality that ca…
Beyond generic support
Despite the emerging attention to career development for gender and/or sexuality diverse (GSD) students, the literature is largely limited to generic support, missing a specific focus on either careers or being GSD. Such a generic view about contextual influences makes it difficult to guide the design and implementation of concrete, feasible practices for supporting GSD students' careers. Extending the existing body of work, this study employed q…
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Re-storying career practitioners’ professional identities as career and employability specialists through an online WIL capstone
Pedagogical partnerships are rarely used to explore how students develop agency through Work Integrated Learning (WIL). This study contributes to this gap by exploring how pedagogical partnerships between students, industry experts and subject leaders in a postgraduate online WIL capstone assisted students to gain clarity about their professional identities as careers practitioners. To further scholarly understanding and appreciation for pedagogi…
Re-authoring career narratives
Narrative Career Therapy (NCT) is recognised in this paper as having relevance for career practitioners who are working to create meaning for their clients in complex work life situations.Re-authoring Career Narratives is described as a practice that involves principles of NCT and these principles contribute to the exploration of agentive development.Re-authoring Career Narratives is demonstrated to support clients to navigate the reality that ca…
Beyond generic support
Despite the emerging attention to career development for gender and/or sexuality diverse (GSD) students, the literature is largely limited to generic support, missing a specific focus on either careers or being GSD. Such a generic view about contextual influences makes it difficult to guide the design and implementation of concrete, feasible practices for supporting GSD students' careers. Extending the existing body of work, this study employed q…
Integrating design processes and narrative approaches in career guidance
Design processes and narrative approaches are increasingly used in career guidance, yet their theoretical grounding and practical applications remain limited. This study critically examines the strengths and challenges of these approaches before presenting an integrated model—Co-Designing Career Narratives (CCN) to bridge theory and practice. Aligning design thinking’s action-oriented process with narrative therapy’s meaning-making techniques, CC…
Career Development and Diversity (3 works) · Higher Education and Employability (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Career development (2 works) · Innovative Education and Learning Practices (2 works) · Medical education (2 works) · Medicine (2 works)