Tanya Kempston

MA Drama and Theatre Education, 2006

I am now a Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong. I recently received my Faculty’s Emergency Remote Teaching Award for my work in 2019-20 - the first time this Award has been given. One thing the Panel though especially worthy of mention was a project I set up in May 2020 called Hear This! A Festival of Radio Drama on Zoom.

Every single thing I learned and did during the MA at Warwick has been of use to me in my professional life and the idea that drama is adaptable to every situation which was always reinforced by Prof. Jon Neelands (who is now Prof of Creative Education at WBS) was something that really inspired me when I was thinking how to set up a community event that would enable both the undergraduate student drama mentors and secondary school participants to use their English Language and performance skills in a collaborative and creative way. The project will now been expanded in 2021, with the help of a Teaching Development Grant, to be one that will include primary and secondary school pupils in Hong Kong.

Clicking on this link will take you to a short video about the Hear This! project: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrvD44gFGMM8pp9VmmlWwTKLJaLsagP5