Doctoral researchers in Drama and Theatre Arts Back to 'Drama research' The Department of Drama and Theatre Arts has a vibrant postgraduate community, carrying out research in a broad range of areas. Profiles of some of our current doctoral researchers and details of their research are listed below: Richard Davy Doctoral researcher PhD title: Using theatre practice as social policy: examining the performance legacies of Eugenio Barba and Augusto Boal as a blueprint for reinventing communitySupervisor: Dr Adam Ledger and Dr Rose WhymanPhD Drama and Theatre Studies Careena Fenton Doctoral researcher PhD title: The intersection of Witchcraft and Spiritualism and the impact upon women magicians of the nineteenth centurySupervisors: Dr Caroline Radcliffe and Dr Eleanor Dobson PhD Drama and Theatre Studies David Jackson Doctoral researcher PhD title: To the subconscious by conscious means: towards a new pedagogy for the emotions in UK actor trainingSupervisors: Dr Rose Whyman and Dr Adam Ledger PhD Drama and Theatre Studies You Lyu Doctoral Researcher PhD title: Physical theatre in contemporary China: Theatre San TuoQi and NuoSupervisor: Dr Rose Whyman and Dr Gianna Bouchard PhD Drama and Theatre Studies Keenan Shionalyn Doctoral Researcher PhD title: The Theatrical Potentiality of Mikhail Kuzmin's Queer DramasSupervisor: Dr Rose Whyman and Dr Gianna BouchardPhD Drama and Theatre Studies Sabrina Speranza Signorelli Doctoral Researcher PhD title: Critical reception of information in Newspaper Theatre. From the Living Newspaper tradition to Augusto Boal´s Newspaper Theatre in the current times.Supervisor: Dr Rose Whyman and Dr Ellen Redling PhD Drama and Theatre Studies Gheorghe Williams Doctoral researcher PhD title: British Political Theatre and the Gothic Mode, 2000-2022 Supervisor: Dr David Pattie and Dr Fabio Camilletti (University of Warwick)PhD Drama and Theatre Studies
Richard Davy Doctoral researcher PhD title: Using theatre practice as social policy: examining the performance legacies of Eugenio Barba and Augusto Boal as a blueprint for reinventing communitySupervisor: Dr Adam Ledger and Dr Rose WhymanPhD Drama and Theatre Studies
Careena Fenton Doctoral researcher PhD title: The intersection of Witchcraft and Spiritualism and the impact upon women magicians of the nineteenth centurySupervisors: Dr Caroline Radcliffe and Dr Eleanor Dobson PhD Drama and Theatre Studies
David Jackson Doctoral researcher PhD title: To the subconscious by conscious means: towards a new pedagogy for the emotions in UK actor trainingSupervisors: Dr Rose Whyman and Dr Adam Ledger PhD Drama and Theatre Studies
You Lyu Doctoral Researcher PhD title: Physical theatre in contemporary China: Theatre San TuoQi and NuoSupervisor: Dr Rose Whyman and Dr Gianna Bouchard PhD Drama and Theatre Studies
Keenan Shionalyn Doctoral Researcher PhD title: The Theatrical Potentiality of Mikhail Kuzmin's Queer DramasSupervisor: Dr Rose Whyman and Dr Gianna BouchardPhD Drama and Theatre Studies
Sabrina Speranza Signorelli Doctoral Researcher PhD title: Critical reception of information in Newspaper Theatre. From the Living Newspaper tradition to Augusto Boal´s Newspaper Theatre in the current times.Supervisor: Dr Rose Whyman and Dr Ellen Redling PhD Drama and Theatre Studies
Gheorghe Williams Doctoral researcher PhD title: British Political Theatre and the Gothic Mode, 2000-2022 Supervisor: Dr David Pattie and Dr Fabio Camilletti (University of Warwick)PhD Drama and Theatre Studies