Practice-Based Research in Theatre & Performance

Sale Price: £275.00 Original Price: £325.00

6-week live Zoom course
March 2nd-6th April 2027, 5-7.30 pm GMT
Specially designed for artist-scholars developing practice-based research in performance, this small group course will help you define your research methodologies and create and articulate practice-based performance. 

6-week live Zoom course
March 2nd-6th April 2027, 5-7.30 pm GMT
Specially designed for artist-scholars developing practice-based research in performance, this small group course will help you define your research methodologies and create and articulate practice-based performance. 

About this course

Are you an artist-scholar seeking creative-critical prompts to generate artistic research? Do you want to find clearer ways to articulate the embodied knowledge implicit in your artistic practice?

Do you need support in finding new research methodologies and ways to reflect on the significance and impact of your artistic practice?

Are you applying for or working through a practice-based PhD, or preparing a practice-based research article for publication? Are you trying to secure funding for a practice-based research project?

Would you like to be part of a creative, convivial community of fellow artist-scholars?

Specially designed for artist-scholars developing practice-based research in performance, this six-week course will help you define your research methodologies and create and articulate practice-based performance. 

The aim of this course is to help you develop a bespoke framework and vocabulary for your hybrid work as both artist and scholar. Over the weeks, you will refine how you frame and articulate your practice, think critically about the different methodologies and forms of knowledge production implicit in your work, and discuss your practice in conversation with a diverse range of other artist-scholars.

I will lead you through a range of stimulating exercises and workshops that help you map your practice, expand your critical and creative palette, and navigate how you want your work to be critiqued and evaluated. 

You will receive tutor and peer feedback on your work. This class meets for 90 minutes and includes creative assignments outside class time.


You will leave the course with…

  • a diverse range of creative-critical prompts in your back pocket to take forward into your practice

  • a robust vocabulary to describe your hybrid work as both artist and scholar

  • the ability to clearly and confidently articulate the forms of knowledge production implicit in your work

  • knowledge and application of different research methods

  • renewed confidence in your artist-scholar identity

  • reading lists, references and resources that support your research

  • a revitalised sense of pleasure and curiosity in your practice

  • connection to a group of fellow artist-scholars


Pricing

6-week course, 90 mins per session

This class meets for 90 minutes per week and includes creative assignments outside class time.

March 2nd - April 6th 2027, 6-7.30 pm GMT

A Zoom link will be sent out after booking. If you don’t receive a link email me.


Course details

Standard £325

Early bird £275

Bursary* £225
A limited number of supported places are available for those who would not otherwise be able to access this course. Book a discovery call or email me to enquire.

To discuss whether this course is right for you, book a free discovery call.

  • “I completed an intensive online course in Practice-Based Research in the Arts, co-ordinated by NovoEd/Stanford Online, Department of Theatre Studies and Drama. To say that this course had a profound effect on my practice is not to overstate the case. For me, the course offered a sense of creative and critical community that I’d been missing for ages – a community to which I consider myself accountable as an artist.”

  • “The content and order of assignments for the course helped me immensely in crafting my specific project and articulating my artistic process so far. The teaching pushed students to delve further into their artistic choices while ensuring that the working space was safe, so students felt comfortable responding to questions and trying new things with their material. The assignments and tasks reflected a thoughtful, supportive and rigorous approach to the work.”

  • “Incredibly helpful, engaging, and informative. It was a rich and challenging experience overall.”

  • “I very much appreciated and learned from the contemplation encouraged by the assignments. I was able to digest, formulate my thoughts and actively engage with them by making something out of my response, simultaneously to theory and praxis. It was a very exciting journey.”