School of Education Research Staff Profile

Dr Anne Hollinshead

Developmental work and research activity

Anne’s research interests have focused particularly around working in higher education including issues of ‘quality’, control, autonomy, accountability, and managerialism. She is also undertaking work on social justice looking particularly at issues of widening participation both in terms of HE and the experiences of children labelled as gifted or talented.

Currently Anne is looking at the issues and tensions which occur when looking at higher educational experience as a transformative process.

Key and recent publications and materials developed

• Hollinshead A & Tomlin C 2008. Keynote Address : A Community perspective on education, Diversity & Inclusion – hosted by Sheffield Hallam University & Sheffield CYPD Ethnic Minority Achievement Service : Never mind educating Rita. What about Princess, Paulette & Pearl? Is higher education a transformative experience for Jamaican, mature, female students?
• 'Changing Times, Changing Lives: a new look at job satisfaction in two university Schools of education located in the English West Midlands': 'Research in Post-compulsory Education' 12(2), Summer 2007.
• Report for Wolverhampton LEA- An Evaluative Case Study of the Provision to Support G&T Pupils in Selected Schools in Wolverhampton LEA, Sept 2005.
• Doing Teacher Research – Primary Practice : the Journal of the National Primary Trust, No 40, Summer 2005
• Raising Achievement through teacher-research (University of Wolverhampton publication), Feb 2004.
• The Times (Public Agenda) 3/2/04.
• THES 30/1/04 – Heads of Department Shirk Responsibility, Dec 2003

Recent conference papers

• May 2009 ATINER conference Athens : Is it the tutors job to teach non-traditional students the rules of the game?
• Hollinshead A & Tomlin C 2008. Keynote Address : A Community perspective on education, Diversity & Inclusion – hosted by Sheffield Hallam University & Sheffield CYPD Ethnic Minority Achievement Service : Never mind educating Rita. What about Princess, Paulette & Pearl? Is higher education a transformative experience for Jamaican, mature, female students?
• Dec 2005, SRHE Conference– Widening Participation : Going through the motions of Educating Rita.
• Dec 2003, SRHE Conference – Tears within Tiers :the new higher education.
• April 2003, University of Wolverhampton Conference – Tears within Tiers : the new higher education.
• Jan 2002, Open University School of Education Seminar program– Using on-line data collection methods to research the higher education sector.
• Dec 2000, SRHE Conference – Quality, Control, Autonomy, Accountability, Adhocracy: lecturers’ perceptions of higher education.

Current development and research projects

Anne is currently looking at HE as a transformative experience for particular groups of students, focusing particularly on the experiences of mature, black women.