Funded Research Projects
Recent research by staff at Central has attracted funding from grant-making trusts including the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), European Commission Research & Innovation Marie Curie Actions and The Wellcome Trust. The school currently hosts two AHRC Fellowships in the Creative and Performing Arts and one Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship, through which senior practitioners undertake sustained research in an academic environment.
Intermedial Shakespeare
Principal Investigator: Dr Aneta Mancewicz, Research Fellow
Title: Intermedial Shakespeare on European Stages
2011 - 2013
Funder: European Commission Research & Innovation Marie Curie Actions People FP7 (193349.60 Euros)
Challenging Concepts of 'Liquid' Place through Performing Practices in Community Contexts
Principal Investigator: Dr Sally Mackey, Deputy Dean of Studies and Reader in Applied Theatre
Title: Challenging Place: Can performance practices can lead residents to reconsider their relationship with place?
2011 - 2014
Funder: AHRC Standard Grants (£136,882) AH/I000364/1
Dramaturgy and Telematic Performance
Accessible Technology in Telematic Theatre
Telematic Theatres: using technologies and the dramaturgies of global space
Principal Investigator: Julian Maynard Smith, AHRC Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts
Title: Telematic Theatres: usable technologies and the dramaturgies of global space
2009 - 2014
Funder: AHRC Fellowship in Creative and Performing Arts (£230,258) AH/G015996/1
Title: Accessible Technology in Telematic Theatre
2009 - 2010
Funder: AHRC Practice Led and Applied Grant (£16,048) AH/H031499/1
Title: Dramaturgy and Telematic Performance
2011 - 2014
Funder: AHRC Follow on Funding (£30,016) AH/I025670/1
Conversation with the dead object: an engagement with post-traditional puppetry, archive and practice
The Life and Death of Objects and Puppets / Post Traditional Puppetry
Principal Investigator: Nenagh Watson, AHRC Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts
Title: The Life and Death of Objects and Puppets: Immanence, Intervention, Presence and Absence
2009 - 2014
Funder: AHRC Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts (£228, 209) AH/G015872/1
2011 - 14
Funder: AHRC Practice Led and Applied Grant (£27,740) AH/I025689/1
Exchange: Enhancing Collaborative Models of Learning and Teaching
Principal Investigator: Amanda Stuart-Fisher, Senior Lecturer in Applied Theatre
Title: Exchange Collaborations
2010-2011
Funder: Higher Education Authority Palatine Dance, Drama and Music Grant Research and Development award (£7391.47)
SCI:DENTITY
Principal Investigator: Catherine McNamara, Deputy Dean of Studies and ‘Gendered Intelligence’
Title: Sci:dentity: What’s the Science of Sex & Gender?
Funder: Wellcome Trust Pulse Award (£50,000)
2006 - 2007
Funder: Wellcome Trust Pulse Extension Award (£12,200)
2009 - 2010
The Contemporary Clown Actor
Principal Investigator: Jon Davison, AHRC Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts
Title: The Contemporary Clown Actor: seeking new modes of performance
2007 - 2010
Funder: AHRC Fellowship in Creative and Performing Arts (£216,248) AH/E005489/1
Noise, Memory, Gesture
Principal Investigator: Ross Brown, Dean of Studies and Reader in Sound
Title: Noise, Memory, Gesture: The Theatre in a Minute of Silence
2007 - 2008
Funder: AHRC Practice Led and Applied Grant (£16,104) AH/E006124/1
Each year the AHRC provides funding from the Government to support
research and postgraduate study in the arts and humanities. Only applications of
the highest quality are funded and the range of research supported by this
investment of public funds not only provides social and cultural benefits but also
contributes to the economic success of the UK. For further information on the
AHRC, please go to: www.ahrc.ac.uk