Anita Franklin BA, MA, PhD
Programme Director: FdA Working with Communities and BA Community, Policy and Practice
Email: a.franklin@sheffield.ac.uk
Tel: 0114 2227115
Room A6, Ground Floor, 9 Northumberland Road
Teaching/Course Development
Dr Anita Franklin is responsible for the co-ordination of Gender Studies provision within the Combined Studies Honors Degree Programme in The Institute for Lifelong Learning within the School of Education. In this setting Anita teaches a broad range of courses including Contemporary Feminist Issues; Gender, Health and Embodiment; alternating with Gender and Work at Level 1. At Level 2 , Feminist Theory; Feminist Research Methods and Women and History alternating with Film Theory, Femininity and Masculinity. At Level 3 Anita teaches Gender, Policies and Practice and Feminism and Theories of Difference.
Other Professional Activities
Anita is a produced playwright, with residencies from West Yorkshire Playhouse, Paines Plough Theatre and Writernet. She has also written for the BBC. She is also co-director of The Centre for Narrative Practice which is based in Manchester and provides training and community development for practitioners of narrative therapy and allied work in the mental health field.
Publications and Research include:
(2002) The ELLIS Pilot: Researching the appropriateness of the ELLIS packages in Ufi/learndirect centers. Co-author with Sue Webb, et al. Centre for Research in Higher Education, Sheffield University.
(2000) `Immigrants, Gender and Class´ in C White and D Denborough (eds) Working with the Stories of Women´s Lives, collected by Dulwich Centre Publications, DCP, Adelaide.
(2000)`Appearing in (Dis)guise: Black Women and Self-Presentation´ in E Green, M Banim (eds) Through the Wardrobe: Women´s Relationships with their Clothes, Berg.
(1999) `Interfaces of Race, Gender Class and Nation´ in C Zmroczek and P Mahony (eds) International Perspectives on Women and Social Class, Taylor and Francis, London
(1998) co-author with Roy Love 'Africa, the media and the making of news' in Review of African Political Economy, December 1998. I edited this issue with Roy Love.
(1996) The Motherhood Project: Black Minority Ethnic Women' s Experiences of maternity services in Sheffield, Sheffield Health Authority
(1996) Findings of the Independent Inquiry into the relationship between Sheffield City Council and the African Caribbean Enterprise Centre Vol 2, Sheffield City Council, May 1996
(1995) Land and Law in Lesotho: The Politics of the 1979 Land Act, Avebury Press
(1995) Findings of the Independent Inquiry into the Relationship between Sheffield City Council and the Yemeni Association, African Caribbean Enterprise Center and the Sheffield Positive Action Training Consortium. Vol 1, Sheffield City Council, November 1995, Vol. 2, available in September 1996
(1995) 'Characteristics of Anti-Racist Research' in Journal of Policy Planning and
Research, September 1995
(1995) co-author with Y Channer, Black Participation in Higher Education in the Journal of Further and Higher Education, winter 1995
(1994) edited with R Love, "Transition and Transformation In Africa" Review of African Political Economy, Number 59, Volume 21
(1993) "Ochun's Daughters" in Keeping It Together, a catalogue accompanying the Pavilion Exhibition of Art by Black Women on the theme of Mother-Daughter Relationships.
Research Activities
I have evaluated along with Eileen Green and Elizabeth Lawrence, equal opportunities teaching in Higher Education. A paper on the outcomes of that research was presented at the annual Women's Studies Network Conference in July 1994 in Portsmouth.
I have been engaged with the Somali Community Research and Development Project in an assessment of the education needs of Sheffield's Somali Community. This work was funded by Sheffield Hallam's Learning and Teaching Institute, the Paul Hamlyn Institute and Sheffield City Council.
I was awarded a one-year secondment from August 1995 with the Health Research Institute of Sheffield Hallam University to explore the transition from campaign and advocacy-focused work done by black mental health groups to their new role as service providers of formal care. From January 1997 to January 1998 I was seconded half-time for a year to Sheffield Health to act as Advisor to the Authority on Black and Minority Ethnic Issues and to provide a strategic review of the organization in relation to ethnicity issues.
I have been engaged with other colleagues within the School of Education at Sheffield University in research on the use of ELLIS software in a variety of settings for learners of English as a Foreign Language. My role within this research team has been to focus on the needs and assets of refugees and asylum seekers in relation to their access to education opportunities.