Dr Frania Hall

Biography

Frania is an experienced educator and researcher with a focus on two main areas - publishing research and pedagogical research. Her research in publishing focuses on creative collaborations, digital publishing, innovation management and organisational creativity. She also writes on editorial processes and organisational structures and change. She has undertaken research into zine production working with the LCC Zine collection. She also used her methodology for collaboration research on a V&A education project into cultural change. Her Routledge textbooks on digital publishing is widely adopted as the key text in this area and she has published a research monograph on publishing innovation also with Routledge.

In the area of pedagogical research her 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. She is particularly interested in inclusive approaches, including creative methodologies that make evaluation meaningful for staff and students, building evaluative mindsets and cultures.

Frania is particularly interested in co-creation, partnership and participatory methodologies and this is reflected in her own teaching practices as well as within her pedagogical research on projects such as Other Voices and the Carbon Deck; these involve participatory publishing outputs. She also works on co-creation projects with external organisations including Porrua (Mexico), Makerversity, Penguin Random House and Syngenta.

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

Frania presents widely at conferences in her disciplinary area with By the Book and SHARP and in education evaluation at Advance HE, ANTF and the Evaluation society. She has also presented on digital learning projects at DEL in Toronto and Singapore as well as her digital publishing research in Mexico.

Prior to that she worked in publishing for 20 year in specialist sectors both books and magazines running editorial, production marketing and advertising departments; her final role was as a publisher responsible for revenues of £15m before moving into publishing consultancy.