Life members
Posted: 24 October 2008
Dr Judy Galloway and Ruth Hawthorn have been awarded life membership of NAEGA in recognition of their significant and distinctive contributions to the development of adult guidance over many years. Professor Jonathan Brown writes:
NAEGA awards of life membership to members who have made significant contributions to adult guidance and to the work of NAEGA. Awards of life membership are made sparingly. Currently our life members are Carole Barnes; Professor Jonathan Brown (founder chair and later president); Anne Docherty (past chair and long-serving membership secretary) Dr Dorothy Eagleson (our first president) and Vivienne Rivis (past president).
Both of the two new life members Judy Alloway and Ruth Hawthorn have made significant and distinctive contributions to the development of adult guidance over many years. In addition, Judy Alloway has been a NAEGA national officer serving in the 1980s as our honorary secretary and, more recently, as president.
Dr Judy Alloway trained as a scientific researcher but chanced across adult guidance in the early 1980s at what was then Educational Guidance for Adults based at the then Hatfield Polytechnic where she worked part time. From that start in guidance she became a national development officer at UDACE (Unit for the Development of Adult Continuing Education). Judy later moved into FE in Hertfordshire. Her work over the years has included being a teacher, manager, county adviser and development officer at both national and regional levels. She has been involved in quality assurance through inspection, FEFC, ALI and Ofsted and quality standard development. Much of her career has been focussed on adult guidance particularly for adults returning to learning and work. Currently Judy Alloway is a NICEC fellow.
In terms of NAEGA, Judy Alloway became our second hon. secretary in 1985 and returned as president from 2001 to 2005. During this later service, Judy took the lead in the reform of our constitutional position whereby NAEGA became a not for profit company.
Ruth Hawthorn has long been involved in research and consultancy related to career choice and career guidance particularly for adults. Since 1990, she has been a Fellow (currently a Senior Fellow) of the National Institute for Careers Education and Counselling (NICEC), and before that she worked with UDACE (Unit for the Development of Adult Continuing Education) and Cambridgeshire County Council (also worked on an oral history project while doing a part-time sociology MA at Essex University). Between 1995 and 2003, Ruth Hawthorn was a Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, where she used life-history and life-course approaches to look at the influences of the media on career choice, and the life-history approach with a small sample of successful women leaders. Her recent NICEC work includes Challenging Age (collecting data from groups of adults over 50 on guidance, learning and employment needs), and also recording and analysing adult career interviews as part of a University of Warwick longitudinal study of effective guidance. Ruth has written widely on guidance issues (particularly about quality assurance and career choice).
Ruth has been a member of NAEGA since the mid 1980s and is a regular contributor at NAEGA conferences.