Research Projects
Homelessness in Performance, Art and Society: Becoming Visible
Homelessness In Performance, Art and Society considers interventions made by the burgeoning arts and homelessness sector. It offers critically informed analysis of the artists, theatre-makers, social enterprises, investigative journalists, cultural, heritage and charitable organisations drawing on socially committed arts practice.
African Disability Dance Network
The African Dance Disability Network (ADDN), created to explore how disability has been conceptualised in different African contexts via local views and in negotiation with legacies of colonialism. It traces how integrated dance, as an embodied form and practice, can challenge these views and expand citizenship for people living with disabilities in Africa.
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African Women Playwrights Network
The African Women Playwrights Network is a research platform that takes the form of a virtual community of female creative practitioners living in Africa or from the African diaspora. Members are interested in connecting with one another, researchers and other interested parties, including potential audiences, directors, funders and artistic managers and programmers in all parts of the world to dialogue about their work.
Cultures of the Left
The project answers to the increasing need to bring together scholarship in political and social sciences that reconsiders the idea of the Left, and draws on the most recent scholarship that fully integrates political sciences with performance studies. The project brings together scholars in Theatre and Performance studies with researchers in Social and Political Sciences, Law, History, Women Studies, Cultural Policy from both Warwick and JNU working in different cultural contexts (eg., UK, India, US, Eastern and Southern Europe, Latin America, China) and focusing on a variety of aspects of the Cultural Left.
CONTAIN
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the ongoing threat from emerging zoonotic diseases and the need for improved national and global preparedness. Interpersonal contact and contact tracing are crucial in the transmission and control of communicable diseases. However, the concept of "contact" is often loosely defined, and there is limited information on the variety of interactions between individuals, especially in lower-income settings where epidemic threats frequently arise. Our research aims to better understand and model contacts in high-risk settings, specifically wet markets where animals are sold.
Sensing the City
Scheduled to take place over a period of three years this practice-based research project, which is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to the tune of £265,000 (full cost: £330,500), will undertake a series of site-specific studies of urban rhythms, atmospheres, textures, practices and patterns of behaviour in the West Midlands city of Coventry (UK).
Thinking Through the Silk Roads
Thinking through the Silk Roads. Cross-cultural Exchanges and Mobilities is an EUTOPIA Connected Community project that proposes an innovative framework for the study of cultural productions, visual arts and performances, cultural heritage, and geocultural politics, emergent in the broad context of old and new Silk Roads.
Historiography as Metonymy
This project, in the form of a journal special issue for Theatre Research International, considers how utterly commonplace theatrical things become interfaces between theatre and world-making or microcosms for understanding theatre practice in ways that social ‘context’ does not allow us to imagine. We denote this form of historiography as metonymy.