Case Studies

Artistic research degrees are changing the lives and creative practices of the individuals who follow them, as well as making a significant difference to academia and the arts. Yet, to date, there has been a lack of evidence as to nature and extent of these impacts. We have started to address this gap because understanding [...]

Prof Jane Bacon discusses PaR processes with two doctoral candidates, Ash Bowmott amd Virgina Farman. Ashleigh Bowmott reflects on documentation of performance as a strategy for the final practical examination and Virginia Farman considers her sited outdoor performance created for her upgrade from MPhil to PhD. https://vimeo.com/350564372 Conversation filmed at the University of Chichester, Researching [...]

Performance Lecture by Susanne Martin,  followed by a discussion with Vida Midgelow  Susanne Martin completed her practice as research PhD at Middlesex University in 2016. She performed the lecture Dancing Age(ing): Performing Ambiguity as part of the Researching (in/as) Motion research intensive (June 2018). The performance lecture emerges from Susanne's doctoral work and is a variant [...]

As part of Talking, Thinking, Dancing Dr. Nicola Conibere and Katye Coe, in discussion with Dr. Simon Ellis, consider the necessity of collaboration between artist, commissioners and research institutions in relation to their own doctoral practices as it is shared with audiences. Nicola and Katye, who have both presented their work nationally and internationally, address questions from their [...]

Carina Reich is a Swedish stage director and performer, and currently a PhD candidate in performative and mediated practices at Stockholm University of the Arts. At ADiE's Talking, Thinking, Dancing event on 7 June, Carina sought to expose the working processes leading to performance and the research process itself by re-staging The absent becoming present [...]

Rosanna Irvine and Sara Giddens are UK artists who both have extensive professional careers in dance and the expanded field of choreography. In 2015 they were both awarded PhD’s from Middlesex University developed in collaboration with Dance4 and funded through Arts and Humanities Research Council, Collaborative Doctoral Awards scheme (CDA), UK. At Talking, Thinking, [...]

Tero Nauha was in the first cohort of students to undertake the national doctoral programme in artistic research at the Performing Arts Research Centre of the Theatre Academy at University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland. At ADiE's Talking Thinking Dancing event, 7 June,  Nauha presented the latest incarnation of  A Performance from Fictioning [...]