Dr Lenny Henry - PhD on Diversity in Screenwriting

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Did you know that Lenny Henry has been awarded a PhD for his thesis on diversity in screenwriting?  We saw a tweet about him yesterday, and had to find out more! He studied at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Does the Coach have to be Black? The Sports Film, Screenwriting and Diversity: a Practice-Based Enquiry

• Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths
• Lenny Henry website

Artistic Practice: Creativity as Research

The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland knows all about practice-based research, so it was interesting to see last week's Times Higher Education (7 March 2013) focusing on this very subject.

John Gill wrote the Leader,  Untangling Creation Myths.
Matthew Reisz wrote the feature, Blurring the lines between art and research.
Nicholas Till wrote another feature, Opus versus output.

If you read THE online, there is the opportunity to comment at the end of articles, so why not join in the debate?!

Practice-based Research in Musical Theatre - CFP

Central School of Speech and Drama

 
CALL FOR PAPERS

(Submission of abstracts – extended deadline – 26 November 2012)

• Title:  ‘Practice-based Research in Musical Theatre: Process and Performance’
• Special Issue of Studies in Musical Theatre (January 2014), guest edited by Zachary Dunbar
• Proposal Deadline for Abstracts: 26 November 2012
• We encourage the submission of abstracts of 300 words or (preferred) articles of 4000-6000 words for issue 8.1, to be published in January 2014.   The deadline for submission of abstracts or articles is 26 November 2012, with a view to full drafts being completed by 15 April 2013. Material should be submitted directly to Zachary Dunbar at zachary.dunbar@cssd.ac.uk.

"Current scholarly research and publications in musical theatre studies predominantly fall into three categories: historiography, musicology and applications of postmodern theory. This issue proposes to kick start a discourse in practice-based research."

eDance Project

Practice-led research in dance.  Demo of project at British Library Growing Knowledge exhibition.  Fascinating - we need to showcase this to our dancers!

'Dancing in the Streets' - a project commissioned by York City Council.

Weblink for this - with thanks to my colleague, community music guru Mary Troup!