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Central is excited to announce the launch of the auralia.space website, the digital home for researcher Duška Radosavljević’s project Aural/Oral Dramaturgies: Post-Verbatim, Amplified Storytelling and Gig Theatre in the Digital Age. 

Congratulations to Central PhD candidate Gabriel Vivas-Martínez, who has been awarded a Civic Scholar Award by the Institute for Community Studies. 

The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, is saddened to record the death of His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, father of Her Royal Highness Anne The Princess Royal, Chancellor of the University of London.

We sat down with Dr Katharine Low to discuss the involvement that she and her students have had with the South African My Body My Space Festival, an annual festival of public performance and exhibitions that, for 2021, has moved into the virtual realm becoming the first arts festival to take place entirely on a dedicated WhatsApp line.

From Monday 22 - Friday 26, Central is partnering with the NHS to present the Student Knowledge Exchange Festival, a week-long celebration of the Student Knowledge Exchange project between the Central and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.  Across five days, staff and students will share their insights, learning, and achievements from these projects. 

Throughout Spring term the student, staff and alumni teams that collaborate to deliver Central’s Outreach programme to young people across the country have continued their work digitally, despite the national lockdown. 

Central is excited to announce the launch of series three of its Discover Central Podcast. The podcast takes an inside look at Central and introduces listeners to members of the School’s student, staff and alumni community.   

We sat down with students Karim Oliver Ghazzal and Becky Coote to discuss their involvement in this year's independently organised restART event and how they collaborated with their fellow Central students to deliver the fourth annual TEDxRoyalCentralSchool virtually, amidst a global pandemic. 

Recent BA (Hons) Theatre Practice graduates, Bethany Duke and Madeleine Young, were named finalists for The Evening Standard Future Theatre Fund.

Congratulations to Central’s Dr Katharine Low, Senior Lecturer in Community Performance and Applied Theatre, who has been awarded funding from the British Academy as a part of her involvement in two research projects. 

In February the Central Students’ Union, together with students from across the School, collaborated to create and present the first ever SU Fest. The festival showcased the collaborative work of 70+ Undergraduate and Postgraduate Central students from across the School’s courses.  It was the culmination of months of planning and collaboration, during lockdown, which brought Central’s students together to create new pieces of theatre.   

The Board of Governors of The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama  is  delighted to announce that  Josette Bushell-Mingo  OBE has  been appointed  as the  incoming  Principal of the School.