Dr. Anita Wilson, Research Fellow, Literacy Research Centre, Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University,
Lancaster, LA1 4YT
Academic Qualifications
1994 - 1998 PhD 'Reading a Library - Writing a Book - The Significance of Literacies for the Prison Community', Linguistics Department, Lancaster University, England
(funded by the Economic and Social Research Council)
Appointments
2008 – 2009 Principal Investigator ‘Interrupted Education: The criminal justice system as an exacerbating or ameliorative force on the educational progress of young offenders’ (funded by the Economic and Social Research Council)
2005 - 2007 Named Researcher ‘Visual Imprints on the Prison Landscape’ in collaboration with the Geography Dept Lancaster University (funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council)
2006 Commissioned Ethnographer ‘Summer Colleges: Creative Arts and Basic Skills for high tariff young offenders’ (funded by the Youth Justice Board)
2004 – 2005 Commissioned Ethnographer ‘Engaging People in Change’ Doncaster Community Arts (funded by Neighbourhood Regeneration Unit, Doncaster and the Arts Council)
2003 - 2005 Project Advisor/Research Fellow, ‘Effective Interventions for Young Offenders’, Institute of Education, London (funded by National Research and Development Centre)
Member of project management team, Practitioner-Led Research Initiative, Dept Educational Research, Lancaster University (funded by National Research and Development Centre)
2001 - 2003 Spencer Post-Doctoral Fellow, based at Linguistics Dept, Lancaster University, Lancaster, England (funded by the National Academy of Education/ Spencer Foundation, New York)
2000 - 2001 Project Director – Criminal Justice, Trust for the Study of Adolescence (Reg. Charity), Brighton. Work commissioned by HM Prison Service, Women’s Policy Unit and Youth Justice Board
1998 - 2000 Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Ethnicity and Gender, University of North London (funded by Women’s Policy Unit, Prison Service)
Sources of Funding 
Selected Publications
2009 (forthcoming) Reading the Signs: Prison Officers' mindful diagnosis of potential self-harm and suicide in Ethnographies of Diagnostic. Work Dimensions of Transformative Practice. eds M. Büscher, D. Goodwin, J. Mesman. Pub. Palgrave Macmillan, UK
2009 (with J. Hurry & L. Brazier) Improving the Literacy and Numeracy of Young Offenders in Tracking Adult Literacy and Numeracy: Longitudinal Studies of Adult Education. eds. S. Reder & J. Bynner, Routledge
2007 'I go to get away from the cockroaches': Educentricity and the politics of education in prisons (2) Journal of Correctional Education Vol. 58 No.2 June 2007
2006 (with J. Hurry, L. Brazier, M. Parker) Rapid Evidence Assessment of Interventions that Promote Employment for Offenders. Research Report No. 747 DfES http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/research/data/uploadfiles/RR747.pdf
2005 Improving the literacy and numeracy needs of disaffected people in custody and in the community: the first 18 months (co-authored with J. Hurry et al) NRDC
2004 Four Days and a Breakfast - Time, Space and Literacy/ies in the Prison Community' in Space Matters: Assertions of Space in Literacy Practice and Research, eds. Leander K. & Sheehy M., pub. Peter Lang, USA
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