Adrian Franklin

Adrian S. Franklin is a British social anthropologist and writer. He worked at various institutions in England and Europe before moving to Australia, first at the University of Tasmania and then, from 2017, at the University of South Australia. He is also known for appearing as a panellist on the ABC Television series Collectors.

Early life and education Adrian S. Franklin was born in Canterbury, England. His family frequently visited Calais, France, when he was growing up.

He holds a Master of Arts in social anthropology from the University of Kent, and was awarded his PhD from the University of Bristol in 1989 for his thesis "Privatism, the Home and Working Class Culture".

Career Franklin was a professor at Bristol University and at the University of Oslo's the Institute for Social Anthropology in Vienna, Austria, in 2017.

he was adjunct research professor of creative industries at UniSA (now part of Adelaide University).

His research interests include "the ethnographic analysis of festivals, rituals, travels and 'events'; art museums and art publics; art tourism; culture-led urban regeneration, urban anthropology and human-animal studies". which ended in 2011.

Recognition In 2009, Franklin was Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Auckland in Auckland, New Zealand.