Rosie Alexander is a researcher specialising in the geographies of career development and guidance, with a focus on rural and island communities. Her book Higher Education, Place and Career Development was published by Routledge in 2024. She currently holds a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Fellowship at Aarhus University in Denmark.

Tristram Hooley is Professor of Career Education and the Head of the International Centre for Guidance Studies. His work focused on the intersection between education, work, technology and politics and he is particularly interested in the possibility that career guidance offers to support social justice. He has published extensively including authoring or editing 15 books. He is the Chief editor of the NICEC journal and the series editor of Trotman Studies in Careers and Employability.

Mariana Lucas Casanova, PhD in Psychology, is a psychologist with over 20 years of experience working with higher education students and graduates, specialised in Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Vocational and Career Development. She is an Integrated Researcher at the Centre for Research & Innovation in Education (inED) and an Invited Adjunct Professor at the School of Education, Polytechnic of Porto (ESE-IPP). Using mixed-methods approaches, her research explores the experience of work, precarity, unemployment, psychosocial uncertainty, green guidance, and socio-political participation. She has led and implemented EU-funded research and intervention projects involving vulnerable social groups such as migrants and young people with disabilities. Adopting a multidisciplinary critical approach grounded in social justice, her work examines the impact of socioeconomic and political factors on the social value and organisation of work, as well as on individuals’ experiences and meanings related to employment and career development, thus contributing to both policymaking and career development practice. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7888-9706 https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariana-lucas-casanova-8546992/

Dr. Sonja Michelle Robinson, Ph.D. is Country and Programme Director at International Samaritan Jamaica (IntSam JA), a values-driven nonprofit serving families in garbage dump communities. She also works as an independent international consultant specialising in workforce education and developmen. Dr. Robinson holds a Ph.D. in Workforce Education and Development from Pennsylvania State University and an MA in Communication for Social and Behaviour Change from the University of the West Indies. She serves as Chair of the Global Connections Committee of the National Career Development Association (NCDA) and as an Ad Hoc International Member of the NCDA Credentialing Committee. Her work sits at the intersection of career development theory, workforce education, and international development, with a particular commitment to advancing career guidance practice in underserved and under-resourced communities.