Honorary Fellows 2002
Madeline Hall-Jackson - local
business woman and successful entrepreneur. In 1986 Mrs
Hall-Jackson received a national award for 'Women Mean Business'
and in 1987 was awarded an MBE for services to industry and export.
In 1988 she took up the post of Non-executive Director and Vice
Chair of Harrogate NHS Trust. Madeline has worked with York St
John's Faculty of Professional Health Studies & Life Sciences
to develop a research programme to investigate the impact of
assistive technologies on older people at risk of falling. She has
supported and encouraged the School to develop a multi professional
health education and to develop postgraduate research and
development for occupational therapists and physiotherapists.
John Maw - received an Honorary
Fellowship for his outstanding contribution to the University
throughout his lifetime. As a student he was a member of the
Student's Executive and after twelve years of teaching in the York
area he returned to the York St John’s as a Lecturer. John has been
a member of the General Committee of the Association of the
University since the early eighties, President in 1990-91 and has
had responsibility for publicity, editing the White Rose journal.
John was a Youth Leader at various centres in and around York for
over a 20 year period and until his retirement John was Chairman of
Governors at Derwent Junior School (where he also acted as a tutor
and consultant to the City of York Governance Service) and Honorary
Secretary to the Hopgrove Playing Fields Association.
Professor Gervase Phinn - Author,
broadcaster and academic, honoured for his contribution to
Education.. Born and initially educated in Rotherham, he went on to
study in Leeds and Sheffield, qualifying as a teacher and gaining
the Certificate of Education, the degree of Bachelor of Education,
the Diploma in Speech and Drama of the English Speaking Board, the
Diploma in Development and a Master of Education. Professor Phinn
taught English, Drama and Religious Studies in secondary schools
for fourteen years before continuing his work as an education
advisor and inspector in North Yorkshire. He has edited a wide
range of poetry and short stories, publishing a collection of his
own plays, poems and short stories. Professor Phinn is also a
consultant to the Open University, a fellow of the Royal Society of
Arts and a Visiting Professor of Education at the University of
Teeside.
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