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Knowledge Exchange, the practise of working with external partners and using the expertise of both partner and academic for mutual benefit, is embedded into every aspect of our work, from research and scholarship to student placements, alumni relations, short courses and continuing professional development. We have a team dedicated to facilitating relationships and projects and are interesting in developing formal partnerships with a wide range of organisations from the creative industries, SMEs, charities and NGOs.
We aim to be an institution where the creative industries and the academy come together to maximise the benefits that we can generate for wider society.
For more details about our strategy, ambitions and activity please read on. If you are interested in working with us, in any capacity, please get in touch via knowledge.exchange@cssd.ac.uk
Blog
Performance artist and Central lecturer Nando Messias talks about their project Transmission: Sissy TV, recently performed in London. It aims to reimagine archival practice and address the gap in the representation of trans and non-binary voices.
David Shearing describes his project The People's Kitchen which was hosted in Rainham, a small town in the east of London. It brought together local people, community groups and organisations to cook, eat and converse together.
We spoke with a number of the contributors to this Knowledge Exchange project Associazione Culturale MeNO and CeSDAS: International Centre of Experimentation for Applied Dramaturgy in Space in Palermo, Sicily, in December 2022.
We spoke with Ben Naylor about Taller Coriolano/Il Jornadas de Teatro Clásico de Málaga: William Shakespeare, the 2020 collaboration with Teatro Kamikaze in Madrid.
Knowledge Exchange Strategy
Download an accessible pdf version of the Knowledge Exchange Strategy infographic below.
Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ)
Funded by a £5.6 million grant, the Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ) will expand the excellent research currently conducted in the Performance Lab at Central, where ground-breaking approaches to immersive and digital technologies are innovated from a performance-led perspective in tandem with promoting social equity.
Short courses and professional development
Benefit from our expertise with our range of short courses and continuing professional development opportunities all led by experienced industry professionals. Our areas of teaching include acting, playwriting, movement, audition techniques and voice and all courses are taught by those who are practitioners as well as teachers. The full range of courses can be found on the Short Courses page.
Central for Business offers a range of practical communication courses based on our expertise in actor training and the voice. Available ‘off the peg’ or we can work with you to devise bespoke training.
View all of our nonaccredited short courses, including diploma courses, professional training and lectures
Bring Central's training into your workplace with communication courses designed for teams and individuals. Online options available.
Student Enterprise
We support students to develop their own commercial, social and charitable enterprises. Workshops are open to all students over the course of the year and competitive funding is available for graduating students at the end of the academic year.
Download an accessible pdf version of the Student Enterprise infographic below.