The Visiting Research Fellowship
Overview
I am currently undertaking research into the role and scope of performance-based activities in knowledge transfer and public engagement for Classics, both as a discipline and as a university department.
Through undertaking such activities the project aims to build a network of contacts with local arts, museum, theatre and cinema organisations. By identifying mutually appealing opportunities, it will seek to develop these contacts into partnerships that will result in enhanced local activities relating to classics and capitalising on the Department's research interests. Funding oportunities to support such activity and further opportunities will be explored.
It is hoped to establish collaborative events that will become a feature of the Leeds calendar.
Activity to date
November 2009-December 2010
This has fallen into three distinct areas: performance-based 'edutainment', cross-faculty collaboration (theatre), and museums/galleries networking/collaboration, each of which now has its own page.
January 2011-April 2011
Activities have focused on cross-faculty collaboration (theatre), including knowledge transfer from Classics researchers to Performance and Cultural Industries students (as part of an assessed performance of an adaptation of Euripides' Orestes), a joint widening-participation school's day; pre-performance talks and a public masterclass. This combination of events has been confirmed as the model for on-going collaboration between Classics and PVAC around ancient drama.
April 2011-May 2011
Activities will focus on museums collaboration in preparation for the submission of funding bids relating to performance-based 'edutainment' in the form of a factasy walk entitled 'In the footsteps of Hercules' for Light Night 2011 through the University of Leeds internal bidding system (for an exhibition and stopry-telling in the university) and Leeds City Council's opening call (for activities in the city centre and Leeds City Museum).
January 2011-April 2011
Activities have focused on cross-faculty collaboration (theatre), including knowledge transfer from Classics researchers to Performance and Cultural Industries students (as part of an assessed performance of an adaptation of Euripides' Orestes), a joint widening-participation school's day; pre-performance talks and a public masterclass. This combination of events has been confirmed as the model for on-going collaboration between Classics and PVAC around ancient drama.
April 2011-May 2011
Activities will focus on museums collaboration in preparation for the submission of funding bids relating to performance-based 'edutainment' in the form of a factasy walk entitled 'In the footsteps of Hercules' for Light Night 2011 through the University of Leeds internal bidding system (for an exhibition and stopry-telling in the university) and Leeds City Council's opening call (for activities in the city centre and Leeds City Museum).
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