This is my My Creative Feminist CV which gives a flavour of my life and work.

If you would like a more conventional CV in the EC format, in relation to possible work, please get in touch.

My Creative Feminist CV

Who am I?
I am constantly redefining myself through my activities and achievements.

Academic
Research on women includes:

Women Peace and Democracy in Mali (2007) London / Abuja: Centre for Development and Democracy, West Africa Insight series.

‘Women, democracy and change on the internet’, Journal of the World Universities Forum, Vol.1 No. 6, 2008

Facilitator
Leading cross-border workshops for participants involved in Belize-Guatemala Confidence Building projects under the UK Global Conflict Prevention Pool, including representatives from the government, army, police, education, health, the media, community organisations, farmers, environmentalists and human rights activists. (UK Foreign Office, 2004-5)

International Development Consultant
Evaluation work for UNICEF (see UNICEF_Global Life Skills Evaluation), UNESCO, UNDP, United Nations Volunteers ( see Bonn-UNVimpact-Handbook )

Monitoring the DFID-funded Jamaica All Age Schools Project 2000-2003(involving 48 rural remote school /communities and 6 regional education offices) including advice on: the baseline study; action research; final evaluation and impact assessment methods.  Also editing a series of lesson learning monographs published by the Ministry of Education Jamaica, see for example: Changing the Future

Evaluation of the Commonwealth Secretariat’s Strategy for Gender Equality
and Gender Mainstreaming, Commonwealth Secretariat Evaluation Series No. 79, 2007

Teacher and Trainer
Many years in education… including inservice programmes for English language lecturers in Nicaragua, support for school development planning in Palestine and project management for Indian foresters.

Co-Trainer with CRUDAN (Christian Rural and Urban Development Association of Nigeria) in developing courses (and Mainstreaming Gender) for civil society organisations, under the Capacity Building for Decentralised Development  programme, 2000-2002

Project Coordinator / Manager
Latest position was Coordinator of the Global Issues<>Local Action Project at Northern College for adult education, South Yorkshire. This involved working with a range of local and regional organisations, as well as helping to embed global issues into the college’s teacher education programmes, developing short courses for community activistsand documenting project impact. (2009-2010)www.gilanorthern.wordpress.com

Editor

Women’s Studies Monograph Series 1 and 2, Department of Lifelong Learning, University of Wales, Bangor, 2002-5

Women, Literacy and Power, Equal Opportunities International, Special Issue,Vol. 19, No. 2/3/4, 2001

Writer

Award winning novelist: ‘The Facilitator’ (2009). “Who knows where your mind can go next?”

Current affairs journalist for http://www.opendemocracy.net/5050  2006-8:
Women at the World Social Forum; Women talk to the G8, Women’s Worlds and other articles

Feminist blogger: http://patriciadaniel.blogspot.com

Member of Write Now workshop at Lawrence Batley Theatre, contributing to the Festival of New Writing, March 2009, 2010 and 2012

Publisher
Director of CAM Yorkshire: books for, by and about women.

‘Women’s Voices from South Yorkshire. Many Cultures One World’  launched at Sheffield Off the Shelf literary festival 2010    www.camyorkshire.wordpress.com

Previously CAM Wales: publications on Central America including

We Share the Same Struggle. Women in Wales /Women in Nicaragua, supported by Christian Aid Wales, 1996

Performer

‘The Journey Continues’ one-woman show at Edinburgh, August 2011

Community cast member in the Huddersfield production of Dear Body by
the award-winning national dance company Protein Dance, March 2009

Community cast member in the Huddersfield production of Ringside by the award-winning national Mem Morrison Company, May 2010

Co-directed and performed in a bilingual community production of The Vagina Monologues in north Wales, February 2003

Presenter

Keynote speaker on “Revolutionary Women” at North Wales International Women’s Day event 8^th March 2008

Chair of Sheffield Feminist Network book launch and discussion on Kat Banyard’s book ‘Equality Now’ as part of Sheffield Off the Shelf festival 2010

Chair and Co-Organiser of the Writing for Change Workshop October  2010 at Lawrence Batley Theatre, in collaboration with the Arts Council funded project The Last Cuckoo

Traveller
I have lived or worked in Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Dominica,Dominican Republic, Cameroun, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Ethiopia, France, Gambia,   Germany, Guatemala, Israel, Jamaica, Kenya, Mali, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Palestine, Rwanda, Slovakia, Spain, Togo, Uganda, USA…

Polyglot
I speak English, French, Spanish, Welsh and German

And last but not least…

Guerilla Knitter
Participated in Art in the Park community project in Penistone (South Yorkshire) June 2011