Randi Boelskifte Skovhus is a Ph.D. student at the research program Lifelong Learning, Department of Education, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Her Ph.D. is a four-year project from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2016. Her research focuses on the youth guidance as it is carried out in the lower secondary school. She is interested in finding out what is going on in the career guidance and counselling here. Her research questions – what she wants to understand by doing her study – are: How can the work with Career Management Skills be considered in a social justice perspective in the Youth Guidance? How are the young people’s possibility to participate in the class and in the career guidance and counselling? Choices – how are different grounds for wishes and choices meet by the professionals and how does this affect the young person and the guidance and counselling process? Structures – how does the school and the Youth Guidance Center work together about the task?
She works with qualitative methods as participant observation and semi structured interviews. She also works with document analysis. The theoretical basis for the project is Critical Psychology (Danish-German). She is also an associate professor at the University College VIA, Aarhus. She teaches at
the Danish diploma program in educational and vocational guidance and participate in development projects. Some of her other academic interests are group guidance and guidance in communities. She is a new participant in the NICE-program on developing the Career Workforce of the Future. She lives outside Aarhus with her husband Torben and their two children – their boy Martin at 12 and their girl Liv who is 17 years old. An activity she enjoys a lot is running in the woods.