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Robinson, Anna

Contact details

Position: Senior Lecturer

Location: EB 2.48, Docklands

Telephone: 020 8223 7177

Email: a.robinson@uel.ac.uk

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School of Arts & Digital Industries

Docklands Campus

University Way

London E16 2RD

Brief biography

Anna Robinson has taught at the University of East London since 2002 mostly on widening participation programmes like New Beginnings 2 and Level 0. She was educated as an adult learner at the Polytechnic of North London, followed by an M.A. at Ruskin College Oxford. 

In addition to UEL, Anna has taught in Prisons and Further Education Colleges.

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Activities and responsibilities

Module Leader Society and Self - in Level 0, Module Leader CC0024 - Narrative Structures.

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Areas of Interest/Summary of Expertise

Anna is a published poet and non-fiction author, editor and reader development advisor to public libraries. She is the author of The Finders of London (Enitharmon) - which has been shortlisted for the 2011 Seamus Heaney Centre Poetry Prize, and Songs From the Flats (Hearing Eye) – which was the pamphlet choice for the Poetry Book Society in 2006. Anna edited the Lambeth Pamphlet history series for Lambeth Archives, is poetry editor for Not Shut Up Magazine and founding editor for The Long Poem Magazine. Anna is a Hawthornden fellow and member of the East London Libraries Festival Panel.

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Teaching: Programmes

  • Creative and Professional Writing
  • Extended Degree Programme

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Teaching: Modules

  • CC0021 - Society and Self
  • CC0024 - Narrative Structures
  • CC1101 - Creative Imagination

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Current research and publications

The Finders of London, Enitharmon, 2010

Book-length non-fiction piece ‘Mum’s Book: a family saga’ is due in 2012.

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Research archive

Songs from the Flats, Hearing Eye, 2006

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