Anna Robinson-Pant

Anna Robinson-Pant is Professor of Education at the School of Education and Lifelong Learning and holds the UNESCO Chair for Adult Literacy and Learning for Social Transformation at the University of East Anglia. She has wide experience of educational research, planning and training in South Asia (particularly Nepal), having worked for various international and local development agencies. She won the UNESCO/UIE International Award for Literacy Research for her study of women's literacy and development in Nepal ('Why eat green cucumber at the time of dying? Exploring the link between women's literacy and development’, 2001). She continues to challenge the dominant instrumental view of ‘literacy for women' through raising the profile of participatory and ethnographic research approaches in the international development arena.