Examples of work
Judith Emanuel has lived and worked in Manchester since 1979. She has
worked in the voluntary sector, the local authority, health service and
universities on local, national and international projects.
Current & recent projects and positions include:
- Evaluation of South Manchester Healthy Living Network, with Sheila
Colman (2008)
- Evaluation of Black History Month, Stockport (2008)
- Facilitation of teambuilding events for development of Joint Stockport
PCT and MBC Community Development service (2008)
- Stakeholder credibility check for Manchester Alliance for Community
Care, (2008)
- Evaluation of Zest, North Manchester’s Healthy Living Project
with Sheila Colman (2007-8)
- Expert Advisory Team member : Centre
for Public Scrutiny (2007-8) Mike Wild, Director, MACC and member
of Manchester LINKs Transitional Board, 2008 said:
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thought yesterday's discussion really took off and we built some genuine,
useful consensus. I think your input is what provoked that...perhaps
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- Training and support for locality public health workers to use appreciative
inquiry in the development of local action plans to reduce Health Inequalities
(2007-8)
- Evaluation of Herbie, a mobile greengrocer serving food deserts in
North and East Manchester (2007)
- Review of the health contribution to Manchester YOT (2007)
Jane Pilkington, Associate Director of Public Health at Stockport Primary
Care Trust said:
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Judith
introduced Appreciative Inquiry as part of a Scrutiny review to address
health inequalities. Local people who took part, alongside Board members,
councillors and senior officers enjoyed the positive focus and energy
it created. As a result the approach has been embedded in health scrutiny
and rolled out in the health inequalities strategy. Judith works with
enthusiasm and energy and takes people with her; she is innately good
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Previous work has included:
Participatory research with young people
For example, she has done work with young people on sexual health and
bullying and run a research skills course for 8-12 years olds. She is
co-author of the Public Health Development Agency Resource 'Positive Participation:
Consulting and involving young people in health related work.' She can
deliver training, advice on planning and developing research with young
people or undertake projects for and/ or with you.
A teacher on a Positive Participation dissemination course facilitated
by Judith said of the course and Judith.
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Spot on. Sharing of very useful ideas. Practical
ways forward . . . Relaxed and articulate, inducing an unintimidating
ambience, Judith, you're a gem . . . The grey has been lifted, some
light has been shed at the end of the tunnel. I can now move forward
with enthusiasm and hope.
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Owen Roberts, Outreach Manager at Brook Manchester/Central Manchester
PCT says:
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I was fortunate enough
to work with Judith on an evaluation project of a school-based sex
and relationships education programme. This was a consultation exercise
with young people designed to obtain their views on SRE generally
and the effectiveness of the programme particularly.
Judith facilitated
the groups with grace, respect and subtle rigour: grace in the ease
with which she related to the young people; respect in her careful
acknowledgement of their insight and opinions; subtle rigour in
the understated manner with which she maintained the groups' focus.
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Evaluation of voluntary sector services
She can undertake independent evaluation of projects and services. For
example, she has done an audit of Community Conferencing in East Manchester
for Victim Support. She also undertook a research study of Citizens' Advice
Bureaux in primary care for Sandwell Health Authority. This is quoted
from extensively in a paper summarising
research about the usage and impact of independent WR advice in primary
care.
Jeremy Vanes, who was District Manager at Sandwell Citizens' Advice
Bureaux said:
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In the large Citizens Advice Bureau where I
worked, there had never been any medical research undertaken. The
process was one of fascinated terror for some of our employees who
had no concept of what they were attempting to contribute to, nor
what its results might spell out for them or their clients.
Judith has a mercurial method of unstitching the supposedly "big
certainties" that drive systems and relationships, and examining
in simple clarity what it is that makes those stitches bind.
Invariably this leads on to even more curiously important findings
about values, purpose and choice. What started out as useful just
got very interesting, and that is the whole point of research in
a workplace setting.
When all's said and done, a lot more is usually said than done.
However Judith ploughs much deeper over longer ranges than other
researchers I've had to work with, and it has always surprised me
how much detail she accumulated on the journeys to the compelling
findings you'd set her off to track down. In this sense you get
a much wider value research reward from Judith than your average
tick-box merchants.
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Diversity and inclusion
Diversity and inclusion issues are integrated into all Judith's work.
She also has specific experience, both national and international. For
example, she has worked with a team at Salford University evaluating transformational
change in health services for black and minority ethnic communities in
Central Manchester. She has also developed North West regional guidelines
for health services for disabled people with physical and sensory impairments.
From 1999 -2003 she co-ordinated a link and distance learning Masters
progamme in Zambia.
Lonia Mwape Magolo, Acting Director, Chainama College of Health Sciences,
Zambia.
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Judith came to Chainama College of Health Sciences
in Zambia to work with the Masters in Education for Primary Health
Care programme under the University of Manchester. It did not take
me long to recognise what a good choice Judith was for the programme.
She provided opportunities for both College
staff members and students to learn from her while respecting their
culture and beliefs as well as using the same opportunity to learn
and understand the environment she was working in.
She is creative and takes good care to ensure
adaptation of what she is teaching to the realities of life in a
particular environment.
For Chainama College of Health Sciences in
general and myself in particular, Judith continues to be an asset
for the development of Zambia.
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Organisational development
For example, she evaluated the multi-agency partnership supporting anti-bullying
work in Manchester schools.
Jill Tordoff, co-chair of the Manchester Anti-bullying Policy and Practice
Network and Consultant - Social Inclusion in the Diversity and Inclusion
Team
Manchester Education Partnership says:
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I have worked with Judith for nearly 20 years
in a range of health related education projects. I like the value
that Judith places on collaboration and partnership in the way she
works and we have a relaxed but constructive working relationship.
Her work is thorough, thought provoking and her reports are clearly
written.
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She also helped a steering group set up Voluntary Youth Manchester.
Lilian Pons, Centre Manager at the Water Adventure Centre and Member
of Voluntary Youth Manchester said:
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One of the things Judith helped us to understand
and respect was our different styles of work; that it is important
to have task and process led people working together. As a result
there is more trust between Steering Group members and we have become
more dynamic.
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She can facilitate organisational development, capacity building and
support voluntary and statutory groups managing change.
Salford Women's Centre staff who participated in a review of management
arrangement:
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Judith had a warm and open approach to the
work she did with us and we learnt a lot from her. We would gladly
use her for future organisational development work.
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