Research Project Archive

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Research staff presenting at event
Image: courtesy of Pau Ros

Archive projects

Explore our archive of earlier research projects.

Advance is working with England’s leading performance companies, transforming their aspiration for gender equality into reality.

Advance 2016 Audience, credit Paul Woodhouse

During 2016 Maria Delgado collaborated with the BFI on a season celebrating the work of Pedro Almodóvar.

Almodovar screening at the BFI, photograph by Pau Ross

Challenging Concepts of 'Liquid' Place through Performing Practices in Community Contexts.

Participants in a parking lot looking into a mirror

Bodies of Planned Obsolescence is an art-science research project that engages with the global politics and ecologies of discarded electronics.

Electronic Waste research project

Manifesto for Change: Re-imagining social engagement and inclusion in the arts presents a series of roundtable and discussion events developed by Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and Nike Jonah.

Multiple hands overlapping

Dr Katharine Low, Lecturer in Applied and Community Theatre at the Central School of Speech & Drama, and Sue Mayo, associate artist at Magic Me co-led this research project.

Props on rehearsal room floor marked with notes

Challenging the dominant narrative about women living with HIV.

Dr Katharine Low, Matilda Mudvayanhu and Dr Shema Tariq

The starting point for Professor Paul Barker’s double-bill is how to do opera without a voice.

Prof Paul Barker at piano on stage

Parents In Performing Arts (PIPA) was launched at the Young Vic in 2015 at an event attended by over 400 people. It is now a consortium of leading UK theatres and arts organisations, led by actor Cassie Raine and director Anna Ehnold-Danailov.

Woman on baby onstage in empty auditorium

Performing Care is a research project which interrogates the relationship between theatre, performance, different care professions and the practice of care.

Men & Girls Dance Fevered Sleep

Performing Places: Working with Local Councils to reach new communities and facilitate wellbeing in living environments.

Performing Local Places

The Performing Places Bexley project 2017-19 used a fictional narrative to think about how the public space in Bexley might more easily be shared and how we might welcome strangers.

Performing in Bexley public space

Using interactive video to facilitate and document contemporary collaborative music and theatre practices.

People interacting in classroom

SpaceLab is the education component of the SharedSpace project consisting of workshop series, student performances, installations, and international collaborations taking place 2013 – 2016 in several European countries.

Two people sitting on side of cliff raising glasses, with light pink material swirling in the air

The TransActing project explores the issue of performer training for people who identify as trans and/or non-binary. It is led by Dr Catherine McNamara (Pro-Dean/ Director of Learning, Teaching and Student Experience).

Performers participating in TransActing workshop