Dr Frania Hall

Biography

I am an experienced educator and researcher with a focus on two main areas - publishing research and pedagogical research. I am course leader for MA Publishing at LCC, UAL.

My research in publishing focuses on creative collaborations, digital publishing, innovation management and organisational creativity. I have also written on editorial processes, and organisational structures and change. I have undertaken research into zine production working with the LCC Zine special collection. I have also used my methodology for collaboration research on a V&A education project into cultural change. My Routledge textbooks on digital publishing are widely adopted as the key texts in this area and I have published a research monograph on publishing innovation also with Routledge. More recently my research has investigated AI authorship. I am founding member and lead for the Innovations in Publishing Research Hub at LCC: https://iprh.myblog.arts.ac.uk/.

In the area of pedagogical research my focus is on evaluation for teaching and learning – exploring processes and criteria for robust evaluation that can be adopted at the local level, taking a theories of change approach. I am particularly interested in inclusive approaches, including creative methodologies that make evaluation meaningful for staff and students, building evaluative mindsets and cultures. I have run many in-depth evaluation projects across LCC and built impact case studies for teaching and learning using a variety of qualitative methodologies. I have developed a blog to provide a framework and tools for evaluation as well as show case evaluation results. I also have developed short digital learning modules. I teach on the MA Academic Practice. My blog on evaluation is here: https://positiveevaluation.myblog.arts.ac.uk/

My pedagogical research approach uses co-creation, partnership and participatory methodologies. This is reflected in my own teaching practices as well as within my pedagogical research on projects such as Other Voices, the Carbon Deck and Decolonising the Archive which involve participatory publishing outputs. I have also worked on co-creation projects with external organisations including Porrua (Mexico), Makerversity, Penguin Random House and Syngenta.

I can supervise PhD projects in a variety of publishing areas from mainstream publishing to zines and artist books. I have experience as an external PhD examiner in areas such as bookselling, publishing data, translations and publishing, and small nations publishing in Europe.

I am also able to supervise PhDs in the pedagogical arena, particularly those that might use co-creation and participatory methodologies, exploring topics like student voice, inclusivity, design thinking, creative curriculum, evaluation, blended learning and NVC.

I present widely at conferences in my disciplinary area with By the Book, SHARP and Readmagine, and in education evaluation at Advance HE, ANTF, the Evaluation society, RAISE and SEDA. I have also presented on digital learning projects at DEL in Toronto and Singapore as well as her digital publishing research in Mexico.

Prior to that I worked in publishing for 20 years in specialist sectors both books and magazines running editorial, production, marketing and advertising departments in the position of Publisher; my most recent role was as a Business Manager responsible for a large commercial publishing department overseeing revenues of £15m, before moving into publishing consultancy.