Ruth Hawthorn
Fellow, National Institute for Careers Education and
Counselling, and consultant to the University of Leeds team
ruthhawthorn@btopenworld.com
Tel. +44 (0) 207 692 5539
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Role in the project "Learning Lives"
Researcher working on the qualitative life-history/life-course data collection,
focusing on learners over 50 who have approached guidance services
Background & Expertise
Research and consultancy related to career choice and career guidance
particularly for adults. Since 1990, fellow of the National Institute for
Careers Education and Counselling (NICEC), and before that worked with the
Unit for the Development of Adult Community Education (UDACE) 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, fellow of Lucy
Cavendish College, Cambridge, where 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 succesful women leaders.
Recent NICEC work relevant to Learning Lives includes Challenging Age (for
Geoff Ford, 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.
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