Staff
Anne Gifford
BA, PGCE, PGDip
Head of School of Creative Industries
anne.gifford@uws.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1292 886360
Fax: +44 (0) 1292 886371
Room: J139
Biography
Anne has worked for many years in Education in a variety of roles. She has designed and taught a variety of courses in Language, Literature and Cultural Theory and has published work on Scottish Literature, Language and Culture. She has extensive experience in curriculum design and has led on the development of new programmes for creative and cultural industries. She has worked for QAA Scotland, in particular, developing and publishing work on Graduate Employability and has contributed a case study on Curriculum Design for Creative Industries to the Higher Education Academy. Over the last 5 years, Anne has had responsibility for Learning & Teaching, Quality Assurance and portfolio development within the School. She has played a key role in developing Equality and Diversity with the institution and is involved with the UWS Learning & Teaching Strategy.
Research Interests
Women's Writing / Contemporary Scottish Literature / Feminist Theory and Gender Studies / Narrative Theory and its Application / Discourse Analysis / Stylistics
Publications
Blain, N. and Gifford, A. (2004) Scottish Political Identity Construction in the Media: Learning and Teaching Questions Around the Theme of Inclusiveness. In, Towards Our Goals in Broadcasting, The Present, the Performing Arts and the Economy: Minority Languages in Northern Ireland, The Republic of Ireland and Scotland. Edited by J.M. Kirk and D.P. O'Badill. Belfast Studies in Language, Culture, and Politics.
Gibson, G. and Gifford, A., (1997) Confronting Dissonances: Scottish Literature and Language in the Primary and Early Secondary School in Teaching Scottish Literature: Curriculum and Classroom Applications ed. Alan MacGillivray, EUP
Gifford, A., (1998) Scots Language and Teacher Training; Viewpoint iiÍ in The Scots Language: Its Place in Education, eds. Liz Niven and Robin Jackson, Northern College (Dundee)
Gifford, A., (1998) Dialect in the ClassroomÍ The secondary English magazine, vol. 2 no.2, Garth Publishing
Gifford, A. (1999) The poetry section in Using Scottish Texts ed. David Menzies, Scottish CCC
Gifford, A. and Liddell, G. (2001) New Scottish Poetry, Heineman.
Gibson, G. and Gifford, A. (2001) Standard Grade English : Pupil and Teacher Books, Heineman
Gifford, A. and Robertson E.J. (2002) Contemporary Scottish Plays for Higher English and Drama, Hodder and Stoughton.
Conference Papers
2000 Media and Literacy (Conference on Literacy), University of Strathclyde
Scots Language in the Curriculum (ASLS Language Conference), University of Glasgow
2003: Learning and Teaching Approaches to Political Identity Construction in the Scottish Press (With Neil Blain).
ASLS Language Conference, University of Stirling, Scotland.
Other Relevant Professional Activities
1998 - Member of the Higher Still Reference Group
1999 - Setter Advanced Higher Language and Scottish Language exam paper (Higher Still)
1999 - Developer of curriculum materials for Adv Higher Language and Scottish Language
2001 - Vetter Higher Still, Media studies, Intermediate exam paper
2002 - Member of the Institute for Learning & Teaching
2004 - Member of QAA Working Group on Employability
