Committee Members and Roles

Our Committee

The STAA Committee are volunteers elected by the membership at the AGM, held each year during our Autumn Conference. We're a small, hands-on group who work mainly via video calls and shared online tools.

We're currently in a transition period, taking time to listen to the needs of our community and rethink how we deliver for our members.

Current Committee:

  • Ashley Jack - Chair

  • Agnieszka Carruthers - Vice Chair

  • Andy Sanwell - Treasurer

  • Lisa Paul - Committee Member (Previous Chair)

  • Laura Savage - Committee Member

Meet our New Chair

Ashley Jack is a CTA (P), UKCP-Registered Psychotherapist, and clinical supervisor working in private practice in Dundee. Her clinical interest sits squarely in couples and relationships, where TA's emphasis on script, contract, and the relational unconscious has been indispensable. Alongside her clinical work, she writes The Liminal Therapist, a Substack exploring the in-between moments of therapeutic and personal life. She's a committed believer that TA's future depends on small national associations actually collaborating each other, a conviction she pursues at conferences with equal enthusiasm for the panels and the after-parties. What it really comes down to, though, is that she finds enormous joy in connecting with people, which feels like the most TA thing she could possibly say.

What's involved in being on the committee?

Each year we run three events for the Scottish TA community: a Spring Event in March, a Summer Event in August, and our Autumn Conference in November. Alongside the events we maintain the membership list and route EATA contributions on behalf of members who choose to pay their European Association for Transactional Analysis fees through STAA rather than UKATA.

We meet online monthly, primarily to plan events and represent our members' collective interests. Meetings are short, and scheduled at a time that works for everyone on the committee where possible. We value your time and appreciate this is a volunteer. New members get a brief induction covering governance, our IT systems, our aims, and what's currently in motion. Questions are always welcome, and we actively work to keep the group inclusive and mutually supportive.

Joining the committee

We'll be opening volunteer applications towards the end of the year. We're looking for enthusiastic members who can bring fresh skills, perspectives and energy to the team, whether that's events, communications, member engagement, IT, or something else entirely. No specialist experience is needed; what matters most is genuine enthusiasm for TA and a willingness to get stuck in. But having a good relationship with technology is a bonus as it is used to keep us connected.

If you'd like to volunteer at an individual event in the meantime, a low-commitment way to see what committee life is like, or just have a chat about what's involved, email mail@scottishta.org.uk.