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:
- Using Appreciative Inquiry
- Evaluations and reviews of services eg Healthy Living Networks, Black History Month, Herbie, a mobile greengrocer serving food deserts, health contribution to a Youth Offenders Team, Stakeholder credibility check for Manchester Alliance for Community Care
- Facilitation of teambuilding events eg for voluntary organisations, a Primary Care Trust and Local Authority Community Development service (2008)
- Expert Advisory Team member : Centre
for Public Scrutiny (2007-8). Mike Wild, Director, MACC and member
of Manchester LINKs Transitional Board, 2008 said:
I thought yesterday's discussion really took off and we built some genuine, useful consensus. I think your input is what provoked that...perhaps more than you were anticipating!
Her work includes:
Participatory research
- Judith responded to a staff member's request to develop an evaluation framework by working with her to develop it as part of the South Manchester Healthy Living Network evaluation,
- Work with young people has included work on sexual health, bullying and running 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:
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.
Owen Roberts, Outreach Manager at Brook Manchester/Central Manchester PCT says:
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.
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:
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.
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, while working at Manchester University, she co-ordinated a link and distance learning Masters progamme in Zambia.
Lonia Mwape Magolo, Acting Director, Chainama College of Health Sciences, Zambia.
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.
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:
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.
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:
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.
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:
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.