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ResearchResearchersKaren Vaughan

Karen Vaughan

Karen Vaughan
email: 
karen.vaughan@nzcer.org.nz

Karen Vaughan is a Senior Researcher at NZCER where she leads the research programmes in Learning at Work and in Youth Pathways.

Her work over the past eight years has directly influenced a number of high-profile education policy initiatives. She has been published locally and internationally on youth transition and career development, workplace learning, mixed methodologies, and alternative education. She is a keynote and invitational speaker at many industry training, careers, and education conferences and professional development workshops.

Karen is member of the New Zealand country team to the biennial International Symposium on Career Development and Public Policy. In 2007 she was appointed to He Waka Tāngata, a Ministry of Science and Innovation forum of emerging leaders in the social science research community.

She has served on a number of advisory groups including the Career Education Benchmarks external reference group (for Careers New Zealand), the Creating Pathways and Building Lives (CPaBL) operational advisory group (for the Ministry of Education) and the Women in Power research advisory group (for Electricity Supply Industry Training Organisation).

Karen has a PhD in Education from the University of Auckland. Prior to joining NZCER, Karen had a small business in software design and worked as a research consultant and lecturer at the University of Auckland.

Research outputs

Year published Title Publication type Research theme
2012 A Transformational System for On-Job Assessment in the Building and Construction Industries Research report Careers and transition, Learning at work
2012 Learning to Fly: Career Management Competencies in the School Subject Classroom Research report Post-school learning
2012 Taking charge of your apprenticeship Summary booklet Careers and transition
2012 The integration of work and learning in New Zealand: A working paper Working paper Learning at work, Post-school learning
2011 English teachers and education-employment linkages for young people Journal article Careers and transition, Key Competencies
2011 Successful Workplace Learning: How Learning Happens at Work Research report Learning at work
2011 The potential of career management competencies for renewed focus and direction in career education Journal article Careers and transition, Key Competencies
2010 A Guide to Good Practice in ITO Structures and Systems for On-Job Assessment Research report Learning at work, Post-school learning
2010 Career Education Networks and Communities of Practice: A report from the School-Communities strand of the Education Employment Linkages project Research report Careers and transition, Learning at work, Post-school learning
2010 Engaging Young People/Young Adults in Literacy, Language and Numeracy Skill Development Research report Learning at work
2010 Engaging young people/young adults in literacy, language and numeracy skill development: A Literature Review Research report Learning at work, Student engagement
2010 ITO Assessment Structures and Systems: Survey and Focus Group Findings Research report Learning at work
2010 Learning workers: Young New Zealanders and early career development Journal article Careers and transition, Learning at work, Longitudinal projects, Post-school learning
2009 A Matter of Perspective: Mapping Education Employment Linkages in Aotearoa New Zealand Research report Post-school learning, Student engagement
2009 A Taste of Possible Futures: making the most of STAR short introductory courses Paper Careers and transition
2009 Assessment of Learning in the Workplace: A Background Paper Research report Learning at work
2009 Competent Learners on the Edge of Adulthood: A summary of key findings from the Competent Learners @ 16 project Research report Families and communities, Longitudinal projects
2008 Education Employment Linkages: International Literature Review Research report Careers and transition
2008 Student Perspectives on Leaving School, Pathways, and Careers (A Report from the Competent Learners Project) Research report Careers and transition, Families and communities, Longitudinal projects
2008 Tale of two hyphens: working the policy-research and researcher-researched hyphens in a longitudinal youth transition project Journal article Careers and transition, Longitudinal projects, Post-school learning
2008 Trading Choices: Young people's career decisions and gender segregation in the trades Research report Educational policy; structure and systems
2008 Workplace Learning: a literature review Literature review Learning at work
2007 Careers education in New Zealand schools Research report Careers and transition
2007 Developing a 'productive' account of young people's transition perspectives Journal article Careers and transition, Longitudinal projects
2007 Down under: Careers education in New Zealand Journal article Careers and transition
2006 Who wants to play "Careers"? New research into young people's priorities and the future of careers guidance Journal article Careers and transition
2006 Young people producing careers and identities: The first report from the Pathways and Prospects project Research report Careers and transition, Longitudinal projects
2006 Zooming in on learning in the digital age (ZILDA): Report 1: Zooming in on 'digital' age learners Research report ICT, Schooling for the future, Student engagement
2005 Pathways, junctions, and pitstops: Youth transition policy in New Zealand Book chapter Careers and transition, Student engagement
2005 Shaping our futures: Meeting secondary students' learning needs in a time of evolving qualifications: final report of the Learning Curves project Research report Curriculum and assessment, NCEA
2005 The pathways framework meets consumer culture: Young people, careers, and commitment Journal article Careers and transition
2004 Alternative education today Journal article Educational policy; structure and systems
2004 Beyond the Age of Aquarius: Reframing Alternative Education Book School governance and management
2004 Evaluation of Youth Pathways/He Ara Rangatahi Research report Careers and transition
2004 Learning curves: Meeting student learning needs in an evolving qualifications regime: Shared pathways and multiple tracks: A second report Research report Curriculum and assessment, NCEA
2004 Total eclipse of the heart? Theoretical and ethical implications of doing post-structural ethnographic research Journal article Educational policy; structure and systems
2003 A constellation of prospects: A review of the secondary-tertiary alignment resource (STAR) Research report Post-school learning
2003 Changing Lanes: Young people making sense of pathways Conference paper Careers and transition
2002 Learning curves: Meeting student needs in an evolving qualification regime - key findings from the first stage of a longitudinal study Conference paper Curriculum and assessment, Longitudinal projects, NCEA
2002 Learning curves: Meeting student needs in an evolving qualifications regime: From cabbages to kings: A first report Research report Curriculum and assessment, NCEA
2002 New orthodoxies? The politics of alternative education in New Zealand Journal article Educational policy; structure and systems
2002 Some like it liminal: Finding a place for the last alternative state high school in New Zealand Journal article Educational policy; structure and systems
2002 Turning Barriers into Opportunities: A Literature Review on Small to Medium-Sized Enterprise (SME) Engagement with Formal Training Literature review Learning at work, Post-school learning
2002 Well I know I need English and Maths ... Conference paper Curriculum and assessment, NCEA
2001 Daring to be different: The rise and fall of Auckland Metropolitan College Journal article Educational policy; structure and systems