About

I am Professor of Career Education at the University of Derby.

I also hold a Professorial role at the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences and am a Visiting Professor at Canterbury Christ Church University. 

I am a Director of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling (NICEC), a Winston Churchill Fellow and a Fellow. I was the specialist adviser to the House of Commons Education Committee inquiry into career guidance.

I also write the Adventures in Career Development blog.

Teaching responsibilities

I teach on the Masters in Career Education and Development.

I'm available to supervise EdD and PhD theses in areas related to career, career development and the educational use of social media.

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

• 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
• Labour market integration of migrants in Norway

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

• Business leaders: Career capital and role transitions
• The impact of island location on students’ higher education choices and subsequent career narratives: A case study of the Orkney and Shetland islands
• 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.
• Quantifying the economic impact of career guidance in secondary education
• 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 12 doctoral theses (4 PhD and 8 professional doctorates, 9 in the UK, 2 in Australia and 1 in Canada).

Research interests

My main research interests address the following topics:

• The role of career guidance in supporting the development of social justice
• The intersection of policy and practice in career work
• Identifying the impact of career development interventions
• The role of online and digital technologies in career development

I also have a number of other research interests including the role of attractiveness and appearance in career, the careers and professional practice of researchers and the use of online research methods.

Membership of professional bodies

I am a member of the Career Development Institute.

Recent publications

Books

• Andrews, D. & Hooley, T. (2022). The careers leaders handbook: Second edition. Trotman
• Robertson, P., Hooley, T. & McCash, P. (2021). The Oxford Handbook of Career Development. OUP
• Institute of Student Employers. (2021). The complete guide to student recruitment and development. Institute of Student Employers
• Hagaseth Haug, E., Hooley, T., Kettunen, J. & Thomsen, R. (2020). Career and career guidance in the Nordic countries. Brill
• Hooley, T., Sultana, R. and Thomsen, R. (2019). Career guidance for emancipation: Reclaiming justice for the multitude. Routledge
• Hooley, T., Sultana, R. and Thomsen, R. (2018). Career guidance for social justice: Contesting neoliberalism. Routledge
• Andrews, D. & Hooley, T. (2018). The careers leader handbook. Trotman
• Hooley, T. and Grant, K. (2017). You’re hired! The graduate career handbook. Trotman. (See also the Supplementary Guide for HE Staff)
• Hooley, T., Bright, J. and Winter, D. (2016). You’re hired! Job hunting online: The complete guide. Trotman
• Hooley, T. and Barham, L. (Eds.). (2015). Career development policy and practice: The Tony Watts reader. Highflyers
• Hooley, T., Marriott, J. and Wellens, J. (2012). What is online research?: Using the internet for social science research. Bloomsbury Academic

Articles

2023

• Hooley, T., Bennett, D., & Knight, E (2023). Rationalities that underpin employability provision in higher education across eight countries. Higher Education, 86, 1003–1023, (2023) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-022-00957-y
• Hooley, T., Hanson, J., & Clark, L. (2023). Exploring students’ and graduates’ attitudes to the process of transition to the labour market. Industry and Higher Education, 7(1), 121–134. https://doi.org/10.1177/09504222221111298
• Percy, C. & Hooley, T. (2023). Lessons for career guidance from return-on-investment analyses in complex education-related fields, British Journal of Guidance & Counselling. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2023.2186372

2022

• Bakke, I.B. & Hooley, T. (2022). I don’t think anyone here has thought about career really: What the concept of ‘career’ means to Norwegian teenagers and school counsellors. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 66(1), 73-87. https://doi.org/10.1080/00313831.2020.1833242
• Dodd, V., Hanson, J., & Hooley, T. (2022). Increasing students’ career readiness through career guidance: measuring the impact with a validated measure. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 50(2), 260-272. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2021.1937515
• Hooley, T. (2022). Building a radical career imaginary: using Laclau and Mouffe and Hardt and Negri to reflexively re-read Ali and Graham’s counselling approach to career guidance. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 50(4), 660-675. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2022.2058697
• Hooley, T., & Godden, L. (2022). Theorising career guidance policymaking: watching the sausage get made. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 50(1), 141-156. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2021.1948503
• Rice, S., Hooley, T. & Crebbin, S. (2022). Approaches to quality assurance in school-based career development: policymaker perspectives from Australia. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 50(1), 110-127. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2021.1919860
• Thomsen, R., Hooley, T., & Mariager-Anderson, K. (2022). Critical perspectives on agency and social justice in transitions and career development. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 50(4), 481-490. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2022.2106551
• Varjo, J., Kalalahti, M. & Hooley, T. (2021) Actantial construction of career guidance in parliament of Finland’s education policy debates 1967–2020, Journal of Education Policy, 37(6), 1009-1027. https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2021.1971772

2021

• Brown, C., Hooley, T., & Wond, T. (2021). Personal agency and organisational attachment: A career capital perspective. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2021.1937940 (Open access version)

2020

• Brown, C., Hooley, T. and Wond, T. (2020). Building career capital: developing business leaders’ career mobility. Career Development International, 25(5), 445-459. https://doi.org/10.1108/CDI-07-2019-0186 (Open access version)
• Zahid, G., Hooley, T. & Neary, S. (2020). Careers work in higher education in Pakistan: current practice and options for the future. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 48(4), 443-453. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2019.1576030 (Open access version)

A full list of my publications is available at:

https://adventuresincareerdevelopment.wordpress.com/publications/