Anna Heyman
Bsc Sociology, Msc Social Research, PGCERT Teaching and Learning in HE
Postgrad Academic Assistant Social Work/Social Care
Location:
Priestman Building
Phone: 0191 515 2847 / 3192 / 2395 / 2201
Email:
anna.heyman@sunderland.ac.uk
Biography
Anna Heyman is module leader for SWK 111 Social Policy and Social Problems and also contributes to various modules on the BA Social Work programme, including Comparative Social Policy and Social Work Research Methods. She also teaches on some modules related to Social Policy on other programmes. She has a strong interest in the service user and carer involvement aspects of the course.
Anna holds a Postgraduate Academic Assistant post in the Department of Social Sciences. She is completing a PHD on young carers transitions to adulthood. Anna's theoretical interests are in issues relating to the position of youth in society. She is carrying out in-depth interviews with staff and service users on how young people's caring roles in relation to disability or long-term sickness in the family develop or change between the ages of 16 and 21 and how these changes interact with other aspects of the young carers life course.
Teaching Areas
Social Policy, Comparitive Social Policy, Social Work Research, Position of Youth in Society, Young Adult Carers.
Research Interests
Anna's research interests are in levels of service-user and front-line practitioner involvement in training, volunteering and informal education and in participatory research methods. In some of her past work she looked at project-based work with groups of service users in Sure Start and Creative Partnerships Schools. This predominately set out to evaluate and explain the processes by which service users expressed needs and aspirations came to be recognized and acted upon by professionals and managers. She locates such work within broader social policy agendas around raising educational attainment and widening participation in Further and Higher Education.
Selected Publications
Beyer, S., Grove, B., Schneider, J., Simons, K., Willams, V., Heyman, A., Swift, P. and Krijnen-Kemp, E., (2004) "Working Lives: The role of Day Centres in supporting people with learning disabilities into employment", London: Corporate Document Services (Jan 2004).
Beyer, S., Grove, B., Schneider, J., Simons, K., Willams, V., Heyman, A., Swift, P. and Krijnen-Kemp, E., (2004) "Working Lives: The role of Day Centres in supporting people with learning disabilities into employment", Llais (Summer 2004).
Harrington, E., Heyman, B., Merleau-Ponty, N., Stockton, H., Rictchie, N. and Heyman, A., (2005) Keeping warm and staying well: findings from the qualitative arm of the Warm Homes Project. Health and Social Care in the Community 13 (3). 259-257.
Dobbs, L., Heyman, A., Ashby, J. and Moore, C. (2005) Sure Start Newbiggin Hall: Local Evaluation Final Report, Newcastle, Centre for Public Policy. (Summary by Heyman, A. - available at http://www.ness.bbk.ac.uk/documents/AnnualReports/1070.pdf)
Schneider, J., Heyman, A. and Turton, N. (2002) Occupational Outcomes: from Evidence to Implementation, Durham, Centre for Applied Social Studies (for Department of Health 2003 Expert Briefing "Employment for People with Mental Health Problems").
Conference papers
Heyman, A. (2008) "Exploring the Emerging Edult Identities and Transition Support Needs of Young People who Provide Care in the Home" Paper presented to North East regional youth forum. University of Teeside, 23rd October 2008.
Heyman, A. (2005) "Towards a schools-led research agenda in creative learning: action research into personal, structural and community change" presented to the symposium Developing creativity in Schools Messages from Creative Partnerships at the British Educational Research Association (BERA) 2005 Conference.
