About

I’m Tristram Hooley. I am a careers expert and am available for comment, editorial and opinion pieces, speaking opportunities and other things that interest me.

I’m interested in how career interacts with politics, policy and technology. I believe that career guidance should be a central part of the education and employment system and that it can be a force for social justice. I post about all of this stuff on this blog.

I am Chief Research Officer, Institute of Student Employers; Professor II, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences; Professor of Career Education at the International Centre for Guidance Studies, University of Derby; Visiting Professor at Canterbury Christ Church University; a director of NICEC; a Winston Churchill Fellow and an editor of the Career Guidance and Social Justice website. I am also Chair of Adviza and on the board of the Career Development Policy Group and the International Centre for Career Development and Public Policy.

I and have edited one special issue of the British Journal of Guidance and Counselling and am currently working on another. I have edited three special issues of the NICEC journal. I review for the British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, Industry and Higher Education, the London Review of Education and the Journal of Teaching in International Business.

I am available to supervise or examine doctorates. I am currently supervising doctoral work on:

• The career journeys of graduates from Orkney and Shetland
• Careers, career guidance and the gig economy
• Graduate career transitions and social media
• Employer engagement in higher education
• Careers education in schools and the future of work
• The return on investment of career education and guidance

Researchers that I have supervised have completed theses on the following subjects.

• Business leaders: Career capital and role transitions
• Communities that care: an insight into male career patterns in a small neighbourhood
• How teachers conceive their role when working with Generation Z pupils in a technological learning environment
• No culture for career: Conceptualisations of career as a cultural phenomenon and as experienced by tenth graders and career counsellors in Norway.
• Parental involvement in career education and guidance in senior general secondary schools in the Netherlands
• Youth mentoring across professional settings: a pedagogic approach to social inclusion

I have examined seven doctoral theses (2 PhD and 5 professional doctorates).

You might be interested in

• My email address (tristram.hooleyATgmail.com)
• My Twitter page as this is where I chat endlessly on the same sort of subjects as appear in this blog.
• My Google Scholar page which has my publications and where they are cited.
• My Amazon author profile where you can buy some of my books.