Research Students

Name Project title
Nicola Abraham ARTiculate 2 REconstruct
Hannah Ballou hoo:ha, Illuminating and exploiting the dissonance between laughter and desire with the female comic body
Tania Batzoglou Towards the pedagogy of the psyche into psychophysical training: applying the Sesame drama and movement therapy approach for
Claudio Beghelli Intercultural exchanges in theatrical culinary practices.
Luis Manuel Campos Epistemological Performance: Mapping the Epistemic Subject in Contemporary Theatrical Performance
Broderick D. V. Chow How to Do Things with Jokes: Relocating the political dimension of performance comedy
Rachel Cockburn The Aesthetics of Auto( )graphy
Silvia Teodora Dumitriu Theatricality. An Alternative Antimimetic Approach
Helen Evans Interactive Theatre: Democracy under Surveillance?
Charla Givans Dramatherapy and Children and Young People with Depression: An Investigation into Evaluation Models
Jessica Hartley Guided Practices in Facing Danger: Experiences of Risky Work with Adolescents
Bryony Markwick Sexual Violence and Erotic Suffering on the Early Modern Stage: Control and Understanding of the Body and Mind
Shaun May Heidegger and the ‘Humour of the Human’
Deirdre McLaughlin Emotional Memory: An Exploration of the Actor’s Inner Life On the Stage and In the Mind
Joseph Mercier F*ck the Stage: Queer Strategies for (Re)Directing Dance Theatre Practices
Nando Messias Towards a New Sissiography: Reinscribing the Sissy in Body, Abuse and Space in Dance-Theatre Performance
James Palm Practical Aesthetics, Acting Shallow and the Ontology of the Actor
Paul Piris Phenomenological study of the visible presence of the puppeteer in contemporary puppet theatre
Alejandro Postigo Rediscovering Spanish Musical Theatre: exploring an intercultural adaptation of Copla
Rebecca Reeves Devising realism: examining the use of realist strategies for characterisation in contemporary British devising practices.
Jo Ronan Collaborative Vision of Theatre-Making in a Capitalist Society
Kiki (Vasiliki) Selioni A Re-evaluation of Laban Principles for Actors in view of the Aristotelian Concept of Mimesis
Mark Swetz Blind Spectatorship: Phenomenology, Dramaturgy and Non-Visual Accessibility
Lorna Thomas Bringing Queer to the Masses; Overcoming hegemonic modes of representation in costume design
Young Yoo The Cult of The Feminine in Surrealist Theatre