Find a research supervisor in practice research Professional Practice

The department specialises in practice research research, as well as critical and creative collaborations with theatre-makers and artists.

Through engaging in a variety of creative and critical collaborations, work in the department explores actor-training and directing methodologies; Live Art practice; theatre for young audiences; and immersive, interactive and participatory practices. This is framed by an engagement with the theorisations and methodologies of practice research and performance documentation.

Dr Joanna Bucknall

Dr Joanna Bucknall

Lecturer

  • Immersive, interactive & participatory performance practices
  • One-on-one performance
  • Practice research methodologies
  • Performance documentation
  • Performing heritage & legacy
  • Gamification & play in performance

Dr Claire French

Dr Claire French

Assistant Professor in Performance and Creative Practices

I am new to the department, teaching across theory and practice and leading the new MA in Performance Practices: Applied Artists. My specialisms include applied, autobiographical and multilingual performance practices. I am currently most connected to South African theatre and performance artists and activists, articulating new dramaturgies and frameworks for sustainable global collaboration. ...

Professor Adam J. Ledger

Professor Adam J. Ledger

Professor of Theatre and Performance

  • Performance practice, especially acting/performer and directing methodologies
  • Devising
  • The Odin Teatret
  • Performance and the environment (especially climate change)
  • Practice research

Dr Pablo Pakula

Dr Pablo Pakula

Teaching Fellow

  • Postdramatic theatre
  • Devising
  • Autobiographical performance
  • Live art practices
  • Practice as research
  • Dramaturgy

Dr Caroline Radcliffe

Dr Caroline Radcliffe

Reader in Drama and Performance

  • Victorian theatre
  • Performance practice (contemporary and historical)
  • Popular theatre and performance
  • All areas of theatre and music
  • Technologies and performance