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84 lines
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abstract: 'Preparing students for employment involves encouraging ownership of
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their employability and engagement in opportunities that can help them
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improve it. Industrial placements play an important role in this but
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declining numbers of students are undertaking them. Using data collected
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over a three-year period at a Business School in a UK university, this
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paper will explore an intervention based on nudge theory designed to
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increase the uptake of these placements. Drawing upon behavioural
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science, it will explore nudge theory and its criticisms. It will
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discuss the concept of employability, including the tensions between the
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necessity of promoting students'' ownership of theirs and the inherent
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assumptions that they will engage in opportunities to achieve this.
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Critical assessment of how the nudge intervention worked will be
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provided, demonstrating how almost half of those `nudged'' responded
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positively, thereby successfully increasing the uptake of placements. It
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will identify soft outcomes, notably the breaking down of some typical
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behavioural barriers to placements and encouraging students to think
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reflectively. It will offer recommendations for replicable practice in
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other universities; specifically a model for developing nudges not only
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in relation to employability but within higher education more broadly.
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It concludes by proposing a new pedagogic definition of employability.'
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affiliation: 'Forder, C (Corresponding Author), Univ Brighton, Brighton Business Sch,
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Brighton, E Sussex, England.
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Fowlie, Julie; Forder, Clare, Univ Brighton, Brighton Business Sch, Brighton, E
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Sussex, England.'
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author: Fowlie, Julie and Forder, Clare
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author-email: c.l.forder@brighton.ac.uk
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author_list:
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- family: Fowlie
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given: Julie
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- family: Forder
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given: Clare
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da: '2023-09-28'
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doi: 10.1080/13639080.2020.1749247
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earlyaccessdate: APR 2020
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eissn: 1469-9435
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files: []
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issn: 1363-9080
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journal: JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND WORK
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keywords: Employability; nudge theory; higher education; work placement
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keywords-plus: 'HIGHER-EDUCATION; GRADUATE EMPLOYABILITY; SKILLS DEVELOPMENT; WORK
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PLACEMENTS; PERCEPTIONS; EXPERIENCE; CHOICE; FUTURE'
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language: English
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month: FEB 17
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number: '2'
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number-of-cited-references: '90'
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orcid-numbers: 'Forder, Clare/0000-0002-6658-2707
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Fowlie, Julie/0000-0003-1131-7612'
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pages: 154-168
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papis_id: a999b6bc3dce3f8054957e41249240b2
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ref: Fowlie2020canstudents
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researcherid-numbers: Fowlie, Julie/G-6029-2015
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times-cited: '3'
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title: Can students be `nudged' to develop their employability? Using behavioural
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change methods to encourage uptake of industrial placements
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type: Article
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unique-id: WOS:000525108900001
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usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
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usage-count-since-2013: '55'
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volume: '33'
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web-of-science-categories: Education \& Educational Research
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year: '2020'
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