About Me

Hannah Phillips is the Director of Transformation at Worcester Arts Workshop, a VL at Newman University and Artistic Director of Outspoken, a company of emerging artists making work for and with young people around issues of gender, sexuality and mental health. She previously was the Deputy Director of Birmingham School of Acting and the Course Director of BA (Hons) Applied Theatre and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Association. She is currently completing a practice-as-research based PhD in Theatre Studies.

Research interests

This is a practice-as-research based PhD, entitled:

The Queer Intersection of Live and Digital Applied Performance, Youth, Sexuality and Mental Health

A video edit of practice can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwdKJNlQXoc

This practice-as-research based PhD investigates the impact of applying intermedial performance as a tool to challenge young people’s homophobic views and behaviours instigated by a culture of compulsory heterosexuality and hegemonic masculinity in schools. Digital participatory practice is positioned as an aesthetic and queer form for applied performance with young people, providing a new strategy for implementing historic TIE and DIE participatory pedagogical methodologies.

My supervisor is Dr Susan Haedicke

Conference Papers

Symposium Organizer for “the Future of TIE” and “Research and Training” ASSITJE On the Edge 2016

Reimagining Theatre in Education: Intermedial Applied Performance. TAPRA 2015, Inspiring Curiosity Conference 2015, ASSITJE On the Edge 2016

Heterophobia: Subverting heterosexual hegemony through intermedial applied performance for young people. IFTR 2014

Publications

http://ridejournal.net/articles/57a7b826e1d0f40769dd550d

Phillips, H. and Craig, T. Phillips, C. (2013) Engaging Students as Practitioners through Experiential Learning: Student Engagement – Identity, Motivation and Community. Oxfordshire, Libri Publishing

Professional Bodies

Senior Fellow of Higher Education association (HEA)