Academic, panels, conferences

LECTURING

2011 –  present            Convenor/ Associate Lecturer :  Contemporary Dramaturgy, Questions of Performance, Introduction

to Dramaturgy, BA courses, Goldsmiths College

2009- present             Visiting lecturer, MA and BA in Applied Theatre, Central School of Speech and Drama

2008- 2015                  Associate Lecturer,  MA in Participatory and Community Arts ( course now closed)

 

RECENT PUBLISHED ARTICLES

Linked to BREAKING THE SILENCE,  the 2020 project about the Spanish Flu in Brighton, Sara contributed to an article with colleagues at the University of Brighton, published here:

http://www.publicpedagogies.org/journal/

 

 

EARLIER RESEARCH PROJECTS:

1/  Using kinetic approaches (embodied cognition/image schemata) to develop creative writing with application to community groups.

  • Short joint action research project with Dr Maria Kapsali, following on from her thesis on the use of yoga in actors’ training and in theatre making, exploring the link between yoga and writing, using my own writing as practice research, summer 2013,

Funded by the University of Leeds

  • The impact of dance on creative writing and literacy– working with the University of Brighton, Shoreham Academy school and Three Score older dancers’ group. November 2011 – January 2012

 

2/ The training of artists to work in community settings within an international context

  • Vocational training for writers. an international comparison

Member of international partnership (UK, Netherlands, Turkey, Austria and Romania),

Leonardo funding,  November 2013 – May 2015

 

PUBLISHED ARTICLES, CONTRIBUTIONS TO CONFERENCES AND RESEARCH

  • Article – Isn’t all Theatre Community Theatre, Arts Professional 2015
  • Keynote speaker, Acting with Facts conference, Reading University, Autumn 2010
  • Participant in Body and Soul, research into artist-educators, University of Brighton, 2010
  • Member of  The Fence, network of international playwrights, meeting in Amsterdam, Leeds, Belgrade, Chemnitz
  • Written contribution in Transmission, The Creative worker: new perspectives for the arts in Europe, UK Chapter, Different Contexts: Changing practice
  • Invited speaker, in discussion with Peter Rumney,  It isn’t Fixed, Writernet event, December 2008 – But is it Art? Discussing working in socially engaged contexts.
  • Invited speaker, New Writing, How do we develop new plays? Panel discussion hosted by the Dramaturgs’ Network in association with Literary Mangers and Dramaturgs of the Americas?at the Albery Theatre, London 2004
  • Keynote speaker, New Writing South conference, 2004.  Writer working in health context
  • Invited speaker, Writers’ Expo conference, Writernet at Soho Theatre, 2001 on ‘The Role of the Writer in the Broader Community’

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