Anna Robinson-Pant is Professor of Education at the School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia, UK. She holds the UNESCO Chair in Adult Literacy and Learning for Social Transformation, working with university partners in Nepal, Ethiopia, Malawi, Egypt and the Philippines. Her ethnographic research in Nepal – Why eat green cucumber at the time of dying? Exploring the link between women’s literacy and development – received the UNESCO International Award for Literacy Research in 2001.

Since moving into UK higher education, she has been active in developing methodological approaches to researching across languages and cultures, and received the BMW Group Award for Intercultural Learning (Theory Category) 2007. Her current research focuses on adult literacy, gender and sustainable development; the geopolitics of academic writing and the internationalisation of higher education. As former editor of the journal Compare, she set up the BAICE/Compare Writing for Publication Programme in 2008 with Theresa Lillis and Anna Magyar. This programme is still running, and alongside mentoring for junior scholars now includes institutional capacity strengthening activities, based on academic literacies research with journal editors, writers and reviewers in the Global South.