Staff Profile

Professor Franks co-ordinates a masters course on Project Planning and Management. He is responsible for training programmes in project management in a number of international locations, including Tajikistan, Pakistan and the Caribbean.

Professor Franks’ research interests extend across the whole field of water resources and development, with a particular focus on water governance, land and water management, and project management for regeneration. He has an extensive record of publication and dissemination events round these activities.

Recent research activities include:

• 2008 – date Projects for Regeneration: Making them Work A pilot study looking at a selected number of projects within the regeneration portfolio of Bradford Metropolitan District Council
• September 2007 - April 2008 Regeneration and Development Organised a programme of seminars, and a concluding conference round the themes of regeneration, development and wellbeing. http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/bcid/research/Regeneration/
• March 2006 - March 2007 Water Governance Dissemination Project Principal Researcher, disseminating the outcomes of water governance research, via website and id21 Briefing Paper http://splash.bradford.ac.uk/home/
• January - April 2005 Water Governance and Poverty – What works for the Poor? Research director, investigating aspects of water governance through co-ordination of a series of reflective case studies from international practitioners
• November 2004 - February 2006 Water Governance – Challenging the Consensus Convenor, ESRC Seminar Series, with academic and third sector partners in UK and the Netherlands. The series consisted of six seminars investigating different aspects of water governance
• July 2003 - September 2006 Organised a series of workshops with partners FAO and IPTRID during the annual ICID conference, round the theme of capacity development for agricultural water management
• April 2001 - March 2004 Goodbye to Projects Co-ordinator of a DFID-funded research study team investigating the institutional impacts of a sustainable livelihoods approach on development interventions and project cycle management.

• Franks T, Garces-Restrepo C, Putuhena F (2008) Editorial: Developing Capacity for Agricultural Water Management: Current Practices and Future Directions. Irrigation and Drainage 57 (3) pp 255-267
• Cleaver F and Franks T (2008) Distilling or Diluting: Negotiating the Water Research-Policy Interface. Water Alternatives 1(1): 157-177
• Franks T (2007) Managing regeneration projects: what can we learn from international development. Seminar, Leadership and Management in Regeneration, Bradford Centre for International Development http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/bcid/research/Regeneration/
• Franks T and Clever F (guest editors) (2007) New Directions for Water Governance. Id21 Insights 67, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex.
• Franks T and Cleaver F, (2007) Water Governance and Poverty: A Framework for Analysis, Progress in Development Studies, 7(4) pp291 -306
• Franks T (2006) Modernizing Irrigated Agriculture: Capacity-Building and Institutional Development. Paper presented at the Symposium on Modernising irrigated Agricutlure in Syria, Damascus, March 28-30
• Franks T (2006) Water Governance: A Solution to all Problems. Paper presented at final seminar of ESRC-funded seminar series, Water Governance – Challenging the Consensus. www.bradford.ac.uk/acad/bcid/seminar/water/seminar5/
• Toner A, Franks T (2006) Putting Livelihoods into Practice: Implications for Development Management. Public Administration and Development Vol 26, pp 81-92
• Cleaver F and Franks T (2005) How Institutions Elude Design: River Basin Management and Sustainable Livelihoods. BCID research paper 12, www.bradford.ac.uk/acad/bcid/research/papers/ResearchPaper12CleaverFranks.pdf
• Cleaver F.D, Franks T.R, Boesten J, Kiire A (2005) Water Governance and Poverty: What Works for the Poor? Research Report to DFID
• Franks T (2004) Water Governance – What is the Consensus. Paper presented at launch seminar of ESRC- funded seminar series, Water Governance – Challenging the Consensus. www.bradford.ac.uk/acad/bcid/seminar/water/seminar1/papers/
• Kay M, Franks T, Tato S (2004) Capacity needs assessment in agricultural water management - methodology and processes. Paper presented at Workshop on Capacity Needs Assessment, 55th meeting of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage

• 2008 June - Trainer, Pakistan Planning and Management Institute, Project Implementation and Management
• 2008 January - Trainer, International Monetary Fund, St. Lucia, Project Management: Concepts and Application
• 2007 November - Guest presentation, ICID, London Water Governance: from Analysis to Diagnosis
• 2007 September - date - External Examiner, Oxford University, M.Sc in Water Science, Policy and Management
• 2007 July-August - Trainer, Caribbean Development Bank, Trinidad Project Execution
• 2007 June - Trainer, Pakistan Planning and Management Institute, Project Implementation and Management
• 2007 January - Guest lecture, Royal Geographic Society Water for Africa: can irrigation feed a hungry continent?
• 2006 December - Witness to the Parliamentary International Development Committee on Water and Sanitation
• 2006 June - date - Co-ordinator for Caribbean Development Bank Projects Training
• 2004 August, December - Consultant, DFID-JWL Project, Nigeria Integrated Water Resources Management in the Komadugu-Yobe basin
• 2004 September - 2006 - Chair, Annual Workshops on ‘Capacity Needs Assessment in Agricultural Water Management’ ICID
• 2004 June - Co-ordinator, Building Capacity in Project Management Aga Khan Development Network, Tajikistan
• 2004 February - Conference organizer, BCID, Bradford Where next for sustainable livelihoods approaches
• 2003 June - Course Director, Education Project Management Course Lower Secondary Education Project, Vietnam
• 2003 May - Conference Convenor Alternative Water Forum