Current Position
Institute of Advanced Studies Early Career Researcher Fellow, University of Warwick, continuing research on:
- Facilitating actors’ linguistic resources in performance-making processes, as part of applied performance praxis;
- Analysing the role of the body in challenging, adding to and critically positioning language ideologies in performance-making processes and performances to audiences; and,
- Making connections between major contributions in PhD research and its potential for informing the Indigenous language maintenance agenda (for post-doc research).
Research in practice
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
Research in articles
Research in Drama Education: The journal of applied theatre and performance, ‘Facilitating departures from monolingual discourses’ (in submission/ accepted with corrections), forthcoming
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
Research in presentations
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.
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
Other publications
Creative Multilingualism, University of Oxford ‘Performing the languages we live’ blog post, April 2020, read here
Awards
Institute for Advanced Studies Early Career Fellowship, 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
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
Institute of Advanced Studies, Associate Fellowship, University of Warwick, 2020 – present
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
Theatre industry engagement programme, administration of student engagement activities with the theatre industry, University of Warwick, 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