Sondra Cuban, Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, Lancaster University

I direct the Masters in Adult Literacy, Numeracy, and ESOL programme. I tutor/convene courses in workplace education, adult learning, and approaches (foundations), and teach seminars in the MA Ed Res programme.In my teaching, I use action research as a pedagogy.

Research Interests

My current research projects are: an ESRC study, called, Home/Work: the roles of education, learning, and literacies in the networks and mobilities of migrant carers. It focuses on the gendered geographies of skilled migration at the intersections of labour, care, and rurality. The other project is a European Commission evaluation study focusing on the changing learning needs of trade union representatives (with Sweden, Latvia, Bulgaria, and Portugal). My writing focuses on: women, learning and literacies; community technologies; non-formal and informal education; workplace learning; and, the feminisation of migration and education.

Spiliopoulos, G. & Cuban, S. (2009). A history of Filipino nurses in Britain and their Needs. Social Science Historical Association, Long Beach, November 13, 2009.

Cuban, S. (2009) Three Migrant Carers: Visual Representation. International Visual Sociology Association. University of Cumbria, Carlisle. July 22-24 (and co-chair of panel).

Cuban, S. (2009). Texts as visual objects in domestic spaces. Visuality/Materiality conference July 10-12 2009, London, British Architectural Society.

Cuban, S. & Spiliopoulos, G. (2009, March). Resistance and regulation in the care industry. Gender & Education Association, Institute of Education, London. March 25-27.

Cuban, S. & Spiliopoulos, G. (2009). Intersectionality and Social Capital. Feminist Research Methods conference, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, February 5, 2009.

Spilopoulos, G. & Cuban, S. (2009). Immigrant care networks in rural England. CRONEM. University of Surrey, Guilford, June 12 2009.

Cuban, S. (2008). The Roles of Education and Literacy in the Social Networks and Mobility of Nurses who Became Carers. Paper presented at the Waged Domestic Work and the Making of the Modern World Conference, May 9-11th, University of Warwick.

Cuban, S. (2008). Social capital and Workplace education for migrants. European Evaluation Society. Lisbon, Portugal.

Cuban, S. (2008) Women Working in the Global Care Chain. Paper at the 10th annual gender symposium, Comparative International Education Society(CIES), Teachers College, New York, March 18, 2008.

Cuban, S. (2008). The Roles of Education and Literacy in the Social Networks and Mobility of Nurses who Became Carers. Paper to be presented at the Waged Domestic Work and the Making of the Modern World Conference, May 9-11th, University of Warwick.

Cuban, S. Hamilton, M., Barton, D., Papen, U., & Reder, S. (April 2007). Outside Practices: The social practice theory of literacy. AERA, April, 2007. Symposium led by Sondra Cuban with Nelly Stromquist as discussant.

Hamilton, M., Appleby, Y., Belzer, A., Cuban, S., Kambouri, M. (June 2007). Critical perspectives on practitioner research. Symposium paper presented at the AERC/CASAE conference, Nova Scotia, June 11, 2007.

Cuban, S. (2007). Social networks and Education of Migrant Carers. Paper presented at the Oxford Ethnography Conference, Oxford University, September 11, 2007.

Cuban, S. & Fowler, C. (2007). Carers Cruising Cumbria and Meals on the Mile. Paper presented at the Creolising Europe conference, Manchester University, September 8, 2007.

Porter, K., Cuban, S. & Comings, J. (2005)"One Day I Will Make It": A Study of Adult Student Persistence in Library Literacy Programs. New York: MDRC. http://www.mdrc.org/publications/401/full.pdf

Potential Doctoral Proposals

Adult literacy, new literacies, ICT, education and basic skills, women's studies/gender studies, migration studies, qualitative research, ethnographic studies.

Career details

I am a former adult basic education and English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) tutor, and have volunteered as well as conducted research in many types of different programmes and with groups including inmates, homeless women, family literacy, employees and volunteers. For six years, I studied learners in community-based programs (libraries) and their lifelong learning, educational histories, and literacy practices within their social networks. I also did an ethnographic study over a two year period in Hawaii focusing on women's learnings and literacies.

Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database

Cuban, Sondra (2010) Examining the feminisation of migration concept for adult education. Gender and Education, 22 (2). pp. 177-191. ISSN 0954-0253

Drago-Severson, Eleanor and Cuban, Sondra and Daloz, Kate (2009) "I Got Your Back" : Looking Closely at Women Learners' Collaboration and Leadership in Three Studies. Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal, 3 (3). pp. 140-150. ISSN 1052-231X

Cuban, Sondra (2009) Outside practices : learning within the borderlands. Literacy and Numeracy Studies, 16-17 (2-1). pp. 5-18. ISSN 1441-0559

Cuban, Sondra (2009) Participation in the margins of women’s lives and learnings. Literacy and Numeracy Studies, 16-17 (2-1). pp. 74-86. ISSN 1441-0559

Cuban, Sondra (2009) The downward mobility of skilled migrant care workers in England. Migration Letters, 6 (2). pp. 177-184. ISSN 1741-8984

Cuban, Sondra (2009) “Talking was a great experience” : gendered communication in ESOL workplace education. International Review of Education, 55 (5-6). pp. 579-596. ISSN 0020-8566

Cuban, Sondra and Anderson, Jeffrey B. (2008) Where’s the justice in service-learning : the institutionalization of service-learning from a Jesuit perspective. In: Service-learning and social justice education : strengthening justice-oriented community based models of teaching and learning. Routledge, New York, pp. 44-55. ISBN 978-0415458627

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Home About Us People Research Prospective Students Current Students News & Events Contact Us SEARCH this site using Keywords/Tags or Full Text. Go»	Dr Sondra Cuban Senior Lecturer Degree: Ph.D Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe), Centre for Social Justice and Wellbeing in Education, Centre for Technology Enhanced Learning, Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research, Lancaster Literacy Research Centre Current Teaching I direct the Masters in Adult Literacy, Numeracy, and ESOL programme. I tutor/convene courses in workplace education, adult learning, and approaches (foundations), and teach seminars in the MA Ed Res programme.In my teaching, I use action research as a pedagogy. Research Interests My current research projects are: an ESRC study, called, Home/Work: the roles of education, learning, and literacies in the networks and mobilities of migrant carers. It focuses on the gendered geographies of skilled migration at the intersections of labour, care, and rurality. The other project is a European Commission evaluation study focusing on the changing learning needs of trade union representatives (with Sweden, Latvia, Bulgaria, and Portugal). My writing focuses on: women, learning and literacies; community technologies; non-formal and informal education; workplace learning; and, the feminisation of migration and education. Recent Conference Papers Spiliopoulos, G. & Cuban, S. (2009). A history of Filipino nurses in Britain and their Needs. Social Science Historical Association, Long Beach, November 13, 2009. Cuban, S. (2009) Three Migrant Carers: Visual Representation. International Visual Sociology Association. University of Cumbria, Carlisle. July 22-24 (and co-chair of panel). Cuban, S. (2009). Texts as visual objects in domestic spaces. Visuality/Materiality conference July 10-12 2009, London, British Architectural Society. Cuban, S. & Spiliopoulos, G. (2009, March). Resistance and regulation in the care industry. Gender & Education Association, Institute of Education, London. March 25-27. Cuban, S. & Spiliopoulos, G. (2009). Intersectionality and Social Capital. Feminist Research Methods conference, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, February 5, 2009. Spilopoulos, G. & Cuban, S. (2009). Immigrant care networks in rural England. CRONEM. University of Surrey, Guilford, June 12 2009. Cuban, S. (2008). The Roles of Education and Literacy in the Social Networks and Mobility of Nurses who Became Carers. Paper presented at the Waged Domestic Work and the Making of the Modern World Conference, May 9-11th, University of Warwick. Cuban, S. (2008). Social capital and Workplace education for migrants. European Evaluation Society. Lisbon, Portugal. Cuban, S. (2008) Women Working in the Global Care Chain. Paper at the 10th annual gender symposium, Comparative International Education Society(CIES), Teachers College, New York, March 18, 2008. Cuban, S. (2008). The Roles of Education and Literacy in the Social Networks and Mobility of Nurses who Became Carers. Paper to be presented at the Waged Domestic Work and the Making of the Modern World Conference, May 9-11th, University of Warwick. Cuban, S. Hamilton, M., Barton, D., Papen, U., & Reder, S. (April 2007). Outside Practices: The social practice theory of literacy. AERA, April, 2007. Symposium led by Sondra Cuban with Nelly Stromquist as discussant. Hamilton, M., Appleby, Y., Belzer, A., Cuban, S., Kambouri, M. (June 2007). Critical perspectives on practitioner research. Symposium paper presented at the AERC/CASAE conference, Nova Scotia, June 11, 2007. Cuban, S. (2007). Social networks and Education of Migrant Carers. Paper presented at the Oxford Ethnography Conference, Oxford University, September 11, 2007. Cuban, S. & Fowler, C. (2007). Carers Cruising Cumbria and Meals on the Mile. Paper presented at the Creolising Europe conference, Manchester University, September 8, 2007. Technical Reports UNISON and Cumbria Care Alliance evaluation briefs. July 2007, July 2008, and September 2009. See: http://www.cumbria.gov.uk/elibrary/Content/Internet/327/5041/39707133019.pdf and http://www.unison.org.uk/migrantworkers/pages_view.asp?did=9538 Porter, K., Cuban, S. & Comings, J. (2005)"One Day I Will Make It": A Study of Adult Student Persistence in Library Literacy Programs. New York: MDRC. http://www.mdrc.org/publications/401/full.pdf Comings, J., Cuban, S., Bos, J., & Porter, K. (2003). "As long as it takes:" Responding to the challenges of adult student persistence in library literacy programs. New York: MDRC. http://www.wallacefoundation.org/KnowledgeCenter/KnowledgeTopics/AreasOfContinuingInterest/Literacy/Pages/AsLongAsItTakes.aspx Comings, J., Cuban, S., Bos, J., & Taylor (2001). "I did it for myself: Studying Efforts to increase adult student persistence in library literacy programs. New York: MDRC. http://www.wallacefoundation.org/KnowledgeCenter/KnowledgeTopics/AreasOfContinuingInterest/Literacy/Pages/IDidit%20orMyself.aspx Comings, J. & Cuban, S. (2000). "So I made up my mind:" Persistence of students in library literacy programs. New York: Wallace Foundation. http://www.wallacefoundation.org/KnowledgeCenter/KnowledgeTopics/AreasOfContinuingInterest/Literacy/Pages/SoIMadeUpMyMind.aspx Potential Doctoral Proposals Adult literacy, new literacies, ICT, education and basic skills, women's studies/gender studies, migration studies, qualitative research, ethnographic studies. Career details I am a former adult basic education and English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) tutor, and have volunteered as well as conducted research in many types of different programmes and with groups including inmates, homeless women, family literacy, employees and volunteers. For six years, I studied learners in community-based programs (libraries) and their lifelong learning, educational histories, and literacy practices within their social networks. I also did an ethnographic study over a two year period in Hawaii focusing on women's learnings and literacies. Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database Sondra Cuban has 27 selected publication records listed on this webpage. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title. For all ePrints records go to http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk Cuban, Sondra (2010) Examining the feminisation of migration concept for adult education. Gender and Education, 22 (2). pp. 177-191. ISSN 0954-0253 Cuban, Sondra (2010) ‘It is hard to stay in England’: itineraries, routes, and dead ends : an (im)mobility study of nurses who became carers. Compare, 40 (2). pp. 185-198. ISSN 1469-3623 Drago-Severson, Eleanor and Cuban, Sondra and Daloz, Kate (2009) "I Got Your Back" : Looking Closely at Women Learners' Collaboration and Leadership in Three Studies. Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal, 3 (3). pp. 140-150. ISSN 1052-231X Cuban, Sondra and Stromquist, Nelly P. (2009) "It is difficult to be a woman with a dream of an education" : challenging U.S. adult basic education policies to support women immigrants' self-determination. Journal for Critical Educational Policy Studies, 7 (2). ISSN 1740-2743 Cuban, Sondra (2009) Outside practices : learning within the borderlands. Literacy and Numeracy Studies, 16-17 (2-1). pp. 5-18. ISSN 1441-0559 Cuban, Sondra (2009) Participation in the margins of women’s lives and learnings. Literacy and Numeracy Studies, 16-17 (2-1). pp. 74-86. ISSN 1441-0559 Cuban, Sondra (2009) The downward mobility of skilled migrant care workers in England. Migration Letters, 6 (2). pp. 177-184. ISSN 1741-8984 Cuban, Sondra (2009) “Talking was a great experience” : gendered communication in ESOL workplace education. International Review of Education, 55 (5-6). pp. 579-596. ISSN 0020-8566 Cuban, Sondra (2008) Home/work : the roles of education, literacy, and learning in the networks and mobility of professional women migrant carers in Cumbria. Ethnography and Education, 3 (1). pp. 81-96. ISSN 1745-7831 Cuban, Sondra and Anderson, Jeffrey B. (2008) Where’s the justice in service-learning : the institutionalization of service-learning from a Jesuit perspective. In: Service-learning and social justice education : strengthening justice-oriented community based models of teaching and learning. Routledge, New York, pp. 44-55. ISBN 978-0415458627 Associated Keywords: Care homes, Literacy, Literacy and health, Literacy in multilingual communities, Literacy learning View all research activities, ePrints, news and events associated with Sondra Cuban. «Back	Contact Details Tel: +44 (0)1524 594453 Room: County South, D08 My Projects Migrancy Research Group All my projects >> View Staff Profiles Centre for Gender and Women's Studies Staff All Faculty Staff Search Faculty by Keyword
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