Theatre and Performance Studies News
TOP STORY: TaPRA 2025 Conference to be hosted at Warwick
We're delighted to announce that the annual Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) conference will be hosted by Theatre and Performance Studies at Warwick between 27 and 29 August 2025. The conference will mark both the 20th birthday of TaPRA and the 50th anniversary of Theatre and Performance Studies at Warwick. Our conference keynotes, plenary panels, artistic activity, conference dinner and programmed events will speak to the themes of milestones and markers, focussing on celebrations, festivities, spectacle and joy. We'll look forward to welcoming you to Warwick next year!
To keep up to date with the conference plans, please visit our dedicated TaPRA pages here.
TOP STORY: Winners of WATE Award
Winners of WATE Award
The Arts Faculty Award recognises the achievements of Warwick's outstanding educators who have enabled excellent learning, creating the conditions within which all students are supported and empowered to succeed and thrive.
Winner - Ian Farnell (Theatre and Performance Studies, School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures)
Commended - Ronan Hatfull (Theatre and Performance Studies, School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures)
Winner - David Coates (Theatre and Performance Studies, School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures)
Dr Yvette Hutchison wins the £5,000 Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence in 2016!
Congratulations to Dr Yvette Hutchison on winning the Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence this year. Yvette’s teaching is inspired by bell hooks’ call for "that quality of education that is enabling and empowering and that allows us to grow" (Radical Openness). She understands this empowerment to encompass intellectual concepts and creative practices, and so she explores ideas, asks questions and generates more questions with her students, thereby replicating research processes and creating opportunities for collaborative knowledge generation. As her research and teaching are focused around non-western, non- text-based material, she seeks to engage students actively and critically with unfamiliar world views and approaches to culture in embodied, experiential ways that can potentially transform them all.
Other winners and commendees in 2016: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/ldc/teaching_learning/wate/wate2016/
PhD alumnus Dr. Rachel King wins Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence
Congratulations also to a former PhD student in Theatre and Performance Studies, Dr Rachel King. Now a lecturer in the Centre for Education Studies, Rachel is also a recipient this year of the Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence.
Dr Margaret Shewring wins £5000 Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence!
Congratulations to Dr Margaret Shewring who has won one of the five annual Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence prizes of £5,000 in 2015. The panel considering nominations for this year’s awards felt that the evidence presented showed Margaret’s teaching and support of learning to be of an exceptional standard. Margaret was nominated by students at all undergraduate and postgraduate levels.