Current Positions
Arts Research Africa and Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Research title: ‘Decolonising language ideologies in the body’.
Associate Fellowship, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.
Recent practice as research
AHRC/ University of Oxford research project Creative Multilingualism and Slanguages, ‘The body, making and (s)languaging’ A workshop for performers and practitioners exploring how and when the performer’s body might disrupt otherwise dominant uses of language, Friday 13 March 2020, Birmingham Rep, overview in my blog post here and evaluation in my blog post here
Online publications
UNESCO, ‘Women, robots and a sustainable generation: Reading artworks envisioning education in 2050 and beyond’ co-authored with Rachael Jacobs, Jan 2021, read here.
Creative Multilingualism, University of Oxford ‘Performing the languages we live’ blog post, April 2020, read here.
Book reviews
Theatre Research International, Review, Explorations in Southern African Drama, Theatre and Performance. By Patrick J. Ebewo, more.
South African Theatre Journal, Review, The Methuen drama guide to contemporary South African theatre, more.
Manuscripts in submission
Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Series Making multilingual performance: Omission, alignment, disruption (forthcoming, 2022).
Applied Theatre Research, ‘Facilitating departures from monolingual discourses’ (forthcoming, Volume 9:1, 2021).
International Journal of Practice-Based Humanities, ‘The disinhibited body: Mobilising languaging to decolonise actor training’ (under review).
Australian Aboriginal Studies Journal, ‘Ngapartji Ngapartji: Intercultural dramaturgies for Indigenous language revitalisation’ (under review).
Invited talks
Institute of Advanced Studies Seminar Series, ‘Disrupting language ideologies in the collaborating actor’s body’, University of Warwick, January 2020.
Language. Culture. Matters. Applied Linguistics Seminar Series, ‘Performance-making processes as sites for the analysis of language ideologies’, University of Warwick, December 2019.
Presentations
AusAct: Australian Actor Training Conference, ‘Decolonising language ideologies in the body: Viewpoints as a multilingual pedagogy’, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia, December 2020.
Performing Multilingualism in Europe and Beyond: Migration, Globalisation, Utopia, ‘Methodologies for mobilising languaging in performance-making and rehearsal processes’, University of Kent, September 2019.
9th International Drama in Education Research Institute (IDIERI), ‘Towards translingual praxis: departures from monolingual facilitation’, University of Auckland, July 2018.
Sociolinguistics Symposium 22, ‘Considering actors’ embodied participation in improvisational activities’, Interdisciplinary Strand, University of Auckland, June 2018, more and abstract.
Theatre and Performance Seminar Series, ‘Facilitating translingual methodologies: beyond the monolingual orientation in applied performance praxis’, University of Warwick, January 2018, more & abstract.
PaR Lab: Pecha Kucha, ‘Performance devising processes as new discursive frames for sociolinguistic research’, University of Warwick, December 2017, more.
Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA), ‘Introducing language ideology’, Applied and Social Theatre, University of Salford, September 2017.
Awards
Early Career Research Fellowship, Institute of Advanced Studies,University of Warwick, 2019-2020
Research Excellent Framework (REF) PhD Completion Fund, Warwick Graduate School, University of Warwick, April-September 2019
Conference Bursary, Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, 2018
TaPRA Bursury, Postdoctoral Researcher, September 2017
Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, Shared scholarship for doctoral research with The University of Warwick, 2015-2019
Monash Warwick Alliance Joint PhD, acceptance, however declined due to incompatibility with Commonwealth Scholarship (above), 2015
Esmée Fairbairn, England 2016
Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts, 2015 & 2016
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, highest grade MA dissertation for Applied Theatre, through publication: The British Library archive, 2014
Leverhulme Trust, Research Project Fund, February-June 2014
Propel Arts Youth Arts WA, Y Culture Grant, 2007
Australia Business Arts Foundation, Arts-Business Match Grant, 2007
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Bachelor of Arts Regional Scholarship, 2004-2005
Academic appointments
Western Sydney University, Research Assistant to Rachael Jacobs, School of Education, Sydney. Areas: ‘Translanguaging’ and ‘UNESCO Education’, September – December 2020
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Visiting Fellowship, Edith Cowan University, August 2020
International Drama in Education Research Institute (IDIERI) 2021, Conference Committee, University of Warwick, 2019-2021
University of Warwick, Theatre industry engagement programme, administration of student engagement activities with the theatre industry, 2020
The University of Sydney, Research Administrator in the Department of Linguistics, School of Literature, Art and Media, August 2016
Research projects
The Old Vic, Old Vic New Voices, Researcher, Housed by David Watson, London, January – July 2014
InsightShare, Researcher, Oxford, July – December 2014