Study Award For Tristram
10 March 2011
Dr Tristram Hooley
Dr Tristram Hooley has been awarded a prestigious fellowship to travel abroad to carry out a fact-finding mission.
Dr Tristram Hooley is Head of the International Centre for Guidance Studies and was granted the money by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.
Each year about 100 British citizens are awarded fellowships for a wide range of projects to develop their experience in ways including in confidence, authority and ambition. Fellows must travel overseas for between 4-12 weeks.
The trust was established when Sir Winston Churchill died in 1965 when thousands of people gave generously so a living memorial could benefit future generations of British people.
Dr Hooley will spend six weeks in Canada learning how people there develop their careers.
Dr Hooley, 36, said: "Canada is widely believed to hold a blueprint for career progression. In the UK, a 16-year-old might go to their careers officer at school and discuss what they might want to do for a job.
"But, of course, the likelihood of someone staying in the same job or career for their entire working life is becoming something that very few people do.
"The Canadians realise this and have developed a model that offers ways in which people can pick up skills that take them through their working life in whatever job they do."
Past recipients of fellowships include the mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington, the athlete Dame Mary Peters and the Olympic long jump gold medallist Lynn Davies.
