New Head of he Scientific Council of the UNESCO Chair

Prof. Valerie Cohen – Scali (INETOP-CNAM, Paris, France) has become the new scientific coordinator and head of the Scientific Council of the UNESCO Chair. She has replaced Professor Maria Eduarda Duarte, who has retired.

Valérie Cohen-Scali is PhD in Social Psychology, and Professor in Career Counseling and Guidance at Inetop-Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (Cnam), Paris, France. She is Researcher at the Center of Research on Work and Development (CRTD). She is editorial director of the French Scientific Journal “L’Orientation Scolaire et Professionnelle” [School and Vocational Guidance]. She is in charge of a master’s degree in Work Psychology and career counselling at Cnam. She is member of the scientific board of the European Doctoral Program in Career Guidance and Counseling (ECADOC).

Her current research projects concern the self-construction during transitions and representations of work of young adults in different work situations, the transformation of young people’s lifestyles and ways of working in relation to the ecological transition, the development of decent work and Life and Career Counseling Dialogues.

Books and articles:

Roquet, P., Cohen-Scali, V., Obertelli, P.(Eds.) (2022). Professionnalisation et constructions identitaires [Professionalization and identity construction]. L’Harmattan.
Cohen-Scali, V. (Ed.) (2021). Psychologie de l’orientation tout au long de la vie. Defis contemporains et nouvelles perspectives. Dunod.
Cohen-Scali, V., Pouyaud, J., Podgorny, M., Drabik-Podgorna, V., Aisenson, G., Bernaud, J.L., Moumoula, I.A., Guichard, J. (Eds). (2018). Interventions in Career Design and Education. Transformation for sustainable Development and Decent Work. Springer. 338p.
Cohen-Scali, V., Rossier, J., Nota, L. (Eds) (2017). New Perspectives on Career Counseling and Guidance in Europe. Building Careers in Changing and Diverse Societies. Springer.302p.

San Antonio, D., Cohen-Scali, V., Aisenson, G., (2022). The Labor of emerging Adults in International settings : A Call for critical Praxis in time of widening Economic Injustice. Emerging Adulthood. DOI: 10.1177/21676968211025345
Cohen-Scali, V., Masdonati, J., Disquay-Perot, S., Ribeiro, M.A.,Willamsdottir, G., Kaplan Bucciarelli, J., Aisenson,G., Rossier, J., (2022). Emerging Adults’ Representations of Work: Qualitative Research in Seven Countries. Emerging Adulthood. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167696820963598
Cohen-Scali, V., & Erby, W. (2021). The development of coping strategies for young people to construct their identity in times of the COVID-19 pandemic. African Journal of Career Development, 3(1), a38. https://doi.org/10.4102/ ajcd.v3i1.38
Vignoli, E, Prudhomme, N., Terriot, K., Cohen-Scali, V., Bernaud, J.L., Lallemand, N. (2020). Decent Work in France: Context, conceptualisation, and assessment. Journal of Vocational Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2019.103345
Blustein, D.L., Duffy, R., Ferreira, J.A., Cohen-Scali, V., Gali Cinamon, R., Allan, B.A. (2020) Unemployment in the time of COVID-19: A research agenda. Journal of Vocational Behavior, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2020.103436