Decolonising Facilitator Training: Voice messages from the South African day to the Australian night
I have had the pleasure of collaborating with performance practitioner Sibusiso Mkhize since the beginning of the year as part of my postdoctoral research Decolonising language ideologies in the body at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. This is a multilingual practice-as-research project supported by an Arts Research Africa and the […]
Performing the languages we live
This blog post is a copy of its original publication on the Creative Multilingualism blog here ‘We breathe English, but we don’t live it’ says Dion Nkomo, educator at the University of Cape Town.* Nkomo’s claim echoes the powerful voices before him of South African resistance against colonialism, apartheid and […]
The body, making and languaging: The first time my PhD research meets practice
I will soon be delivering a workshop for performers and practitioners that explores how and when the performer’s body might disrupt otherwise dominant uses of language. This is my first opportunity to bring together performers and practitioners to challenge and elaborate my PhD’s key findings with their accumulative knowledges, skills […]
Celebrating the PhD, onwards ECR
Yesterday I experienced the PhD viva and left unscathed (!), enthusiastic about the nature of the PhD reviewing and examining process, and able to celebrate, for the very first time, my own prospects as an early career researcher (ECR). In the past four years I have been nourished and supported […]