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CRAC Trustees June 2025
18/06/2025
The Careers Research and Advisory Centre (CRAC Ltd) is pleased to announce the appointment of three new trustees to the Board: Dr Shewly Choudhury, Dr Alexander Hasgall and Professor Jeremy Sanders.
Dr Shewly Choudhury
A neuroscientist by training, Shewly is currently Hea...
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Career Tracking of British Academy funded early-career researchers
22/05/2025
CRAC- Vitae has published the Career Tracking of British Academy Funded Early-Career Researchers report, after having been commissioned by the British Academy to design a Research Career Tracker.
Read the full report which examines the career paths of awardees of two British Academy...
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Royal Society Early-Career Research Fellowships – Career Pathway Tracker 2024
29/04/2025
CRAC–Vitae has published the Royal Society Early-Career Research Fellowships – Career Pathway Tracker Report 2024, after having been commissioned by the Royal Society to undertake a second iteration of its ‘Career pathway tracker’ project.
Read the full re...
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Broadstone advises on Just Group’s buy-in for the CRAC Pension Scheme
03/03/2025
The CRAC Pension Scheme has secured a £2.8m full scheme buy-in with Just Group.
Read the full press release here: Download
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Technician Commitment welcomes new Chair to Steering Board
21/05/2024
The Technician Commitment, hosted by the UK Institute for Technical Skills and Strategy (ITSS) are pleased to announce the appointment of Clare Viney as the new Chair of the Technician Commitment Steering Board.
Clare has been an active member of the Technician Commitment Steerin...
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Become a CRAC Trustee and help shape our future
22/01/2024
CRAC and its Board are looking for at least two new Trustees to join the Board from June 2024.
Diverse viewpoints are vital to a healthy and inclusive culture and we welcome applicants from all roles and backgrounds who have the commitment and enthusiasm and/or experience to guide, govern...
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Adrian Alexander Bridgewater – 1936 – 2023
19/12/2023
It is with sadness that we learned that Adrian Bridgewater, Co-Founder of the Careers Research and Advisory Centre, (CRAC), died on 5 December 2023.
CRAC was set up by Adrian and Professor Tony Watts in 1964 to improve the quality of careers work and career support in u...
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Report: Inclusive selection and support for the Future Leaders Fellowship scheme
30/11/2023
CRAC has published the report “Inclusive selection and support for the Future Leaders Fellowship scheme” following research into the internal selection processes used by institutions for the Future Leaders Fellowship (FLF) scheme.
Commissioned by UK Research & Innovation (...
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Strategic Action Plan announced by government for Careers in 2024
21/09/2023
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Supporting local students and graduates report published
19/09/2023
An evaluation of the Office for Students Challenge Competition: Industrial strategy and skills: support for local students and graduates
“Supporting local students and graduates” explores how individuals’ careers are influenced by where they live, study and wor...
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Career Guidance Guarantee presented in UK Parliament today
20/07/2023
The Career Development Policy Group (CDPG), of which the Careers Research and Advisory Centre (CRAC) Ltd is a founding member, was represented in UK parliament today at a roundtable on “A Career Guidance Guarantee for England”.
In partner...
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Career guidance roundtable summary report published
31/05/2022
The Career Development Policy Group (CDPG), of which The Careers Research and Advisory Centre (CRAC) Ltd is a founding member, have published a summary of the three virtual roundtables recently hosted, discussing the career guidance system in England. The roundtables that CRAC contributed to, wer...
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Professor David Oswell announced as new CRAC Chair
28/03/2022
The Careers Research and Advisory Centre (CRAC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor David Oswell as Chair of the Board of Trustees. David is currently a CRAC Trustee and Pro-Warden for Research, Enterprise and Knowledge Exchange at Goldsmiths, University of London.
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Seeking views from Arts and Humanities doctoral students
15/02/2022
The Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has commissioned The Careers Research Advisory Centre (CRAC) Ltd, who manage the Vitae programme, to review current doctoral provision in the arts and humanities, and identify options for how it should support doctoral provision in future.&n...
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LIfe at the Young Bar
27/01/2022
Commissioned by The Bar Council, this report presents a snapshot of life at the Young Bar in 2021.
Our findings and recommendations are summarised by broad theme: the evolving profile of the Young Bar, impacts of Covid-19 on practice, working practices and work allocation, wellbeing, bull...
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Helping Black Asian and Minority Ethnic Postgraduate Researchers
26/11/2021
Vitae, part of the Careers Research & Advisory Centre (CRAC) Ltd, is delighted to be working in a new project with the University of Essex, titled 'Transitions and Transformations: The Black Researcher’s Journey', that will support Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students in postgradua...
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Career Guidance Guarantee launch
15/10/2021
The Career Development Policy Group (CDPG) of which The Careers Research and Advisory Centre (CRAC) Ltd is a member, believes that England should further develop its career guidance system with everyone able to benefit from a government-backed Career Guidance Guarantee.
The CDPG wil...
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Emergency career development plan to maintain employment, productivity and progression post-Covid-19
23/06/2021
CRAC is pleased to be part of the recently formed Career Development Policy Group (CDPG) working with the Government and other stakeholders to help develop a much needed emergency career...
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The profile of postdoctoral researchers in the UK eligible for Royal Society early career fellowship programmes
26/05/2021
This report establishes the diversity profile of postdoctoral researchers in the UK eligible for the Royal Society’s fellowship programmes that support early-career scientists to transition to independent research leadership in the UK.
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Great Debate: Careers Education and guidance in the time of Covid
18/02/2021
Tuesday 2 March at 12.30 - 2.00pm
Whilst the government’s new white paper to improve careers provision has some welcome proposals, there is further need for improvement, especially around career support for people outside ...
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Barriers for disabled scientists
21/01/2021
As part of work to address barriers to participation and success in STEM, the Royal Society commissioned the Careers Research & Advisory Centre (CRAC) to undertake a qualitative research project to understand the low level of disclosure of disability amongst scientists in the academic workfor...
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Plea for National Career Service funding reforms
27/10/2020
The Careers Research Advisory Centre (CRAC) has signed an open letter to the Minister for Apprenticeships and Skills, Gillian Keegan, with recommendations to help ensure that all adults have access to National Careers guidance, following concerns in the sector around funding arrangements and acce...
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New report explores performing arts graduates’ careers and success
27/10/2020
The Careers Research & Advisory Centre (CRAC) in collaboration with the Institute of Student Employers (ISE) has today published a new research report following a study of graduates from the leading performing arts schools within the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama titled ...
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Emergency career development plan post-Covid-19
15/06/2020
Career Development Policy Group (CDPG) has taken a long hard look at the looming labour market crisis and sets out to explain why the government needs to invest in careers guidance now, and what needs to happen in the short, medium and long term. This is a costed proposal - £26 million to f...
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New CRAC Trustees announced
24/04/2020
The Careers Research and Advisory Centre (CRAC) is pleased to announce the appointment of the following three new members to the Board of Trustees:
Jan Juillerat
Independent HR and organisat...
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Barriers for disabled scientists
24/02/2020
As part of work to address barriers to participation and success in STEM, the Royal Society has commissioned the Careers Research & Advisory Centre (CRAC) to undertake a qualitative research project to understand the low level of disclosure of disability amongst scientists in the academic wor...
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CRAC Trustee opportunities
03/12/2019
CRAC and its Board are committed to increasing the diversity of those acting as Trustees, in terms both of personal characteristics and diversity of thought and professional experiences. We therefore welcome applications from a wide range of potential applicants who have the commitment and enthus...
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Five Point Manifesto
29/11/2019
CRAC welcomes the recently launched five-point manifesto for careers by Careers England, in association with the Careers Development Insti...
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Drs. Astrid Wissenburg announced as new Chair
01/07/2019
CRAC is delighted to announce the appointment of Drs. Astrid Wissenburg as Chair of the Board of Trustees. Astrid is currently a CRAC Trustee and Director of Research at the University of Exeter where one of her main responibilities is the delivery of the University Research and Impact Strategy. ...
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Coming soon
04/03/2019
Several research, intelligence and analysis projects are currently underway at CRAC which will be revealed soon, including a report on UK students who study abroad and an evaluation of masters conversion courses.
We are also working on the next ‘What Do Researchers Do?’ public...
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Evaluation of the Realising Opportunities Programme
04/03/2019
CRAC has been supporting the Institute for Employment Studies’ evaluation of the Realising Opportunities programme and has co-authored its latest impact report, titled ‘Read more ...
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Head of Learning and Professional Development
21/12/2018
We are seeking an exceptional Head of Learning and Professional Development who can work with our clients and community to lead and deliver our learning and professional development strategy and support the Senior Management Team (SMT) by contributing to our overall development and growth.&...
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Concordat online consultation
30/10/2018
CRAC and its key non-profit programme, Vitae, are delighted that the Concordat Strategy Group (CSG) has launched a consultation to inform a revision of the Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers.
The report from the Independent Review Panel, published in September, mad...
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New engagement and policy project manager
17/10/2018
We seek a talented engagement and policy project manager to join our team to support our growing Vitae membership community and contribute to policy development at a national and international level.
The post holder will have experience in stakeholder engagement and research policy; be a ...
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New Board Members
04/10/2018
CRAC is seeking new board members
We would like to hear from senior individuals with experience of operating within a board in a charitable, public sector or commercial organisation. We are specifically looking for Trustees with experience and substantial expertise in leader...
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CRAC tracks careers of Royal Society Research Fellows
12/09/2018
CRAC has published an independent evaluative study for the Royal Society tracking the careers of those benefiting from its Research Fellowships and considering the impact of those fellowships: Read more ...
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New careers strategy launched by government
07/12/2017
The long-awaited new careers strategy contains some welcome steps in terms of the evolution of careers support for young people in England. Whilst it acknowledges the importance of effective careers education, advice and guidance, backed up by some good practical recommendations, it would appear ...
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Innovative research project on equality and diversity in HE published
27/07/2017
HEFCE has published CRAC’s report on its highly experimental project to investigate what could be learned about E&D in the research environment by automated ‘text mining’ and analysis of nearly 2000 submissions to the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) by institutions ...
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New CRAC research projects for Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering
27/07/2017
CRAC is pleased to announce that it is undertaking two new research projects for the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering, respectively. Success in winning these commissions through competitive processes run by these prestigious clients is a mark of the reputation that CRAC has built fo...
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CRAC, the Careers Research & Advisory Centre Ltd, is pleased to announce that Clare Viney has been appointed Chief Executive Officer with effect from Monday 3 October 2016
05/10/2016
Clare was Director of Membership and External Affairs at the Royal Society of Chemistry. She replaces Ellen Pearce, who was CEO from 2011 and has chosen not to return from maternity leave.
CRAC, the independent organisation dedicated to supporting career development and active, career-rel...
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CRAC develops more support for those considering progression to PG study
06/11/2015
Earlier this year, the Vitae website launched a new section specifically providing information and advice for those considering studying for a doctorate, developed with support from HEFCE: Read more ...
