Research output per year
Research output per year
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Profiles
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Ageing, Animation and the Temporalities of the Body
Deng, M., 2026, Radical Embodiment on Film: Time and the Cinematic Body. Bayman, L. & Quinlivan, D. (eds.). Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, p. 177-192Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Ecology and feminism in performance: Composting histories 1962-2020
Berger, C., 2026, Manchester University Press. 311 p. (Women, Theatre and Performance)Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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A Black History of English Theatre in the 1950s
Dorney, K., Dec 2025, (Accepted/In press) The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre . Cochrane, C., Goddard, L., Hindson, C. & Reid, T. (eds.). Routledge, Vol. 2. p. 15-29 15 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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'Adapting Manchester: Granada Studios, Brideshead Revisited (1981) and the 'performance' of place.
Lowe, V., 22 Dec 2025, In: Cinergie. 28, p. 45-56 12 p., 3.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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An Ode to Playgrounds: play, unruliness and care in the art of playgroundology
Polonyi, R., 17 Dec 2025, Care Aesthetics and the Arts. Maguire-Rosier, K., Polonyi, R. & Thompson, J. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 46-64 19 p. (Routledge Studies in Care Aesthetics).Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Open Access
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People, Place and Energy Research Centre (PPERC)
Bouzarovski, S. (CoI), Bellamy, R. (CoI), Barragan Contreras, S. J. (Researcher), Barrow, J. (Researcher), Blakey, J. (Researcher), Burbidge, M. (Researcher), Chiarapini, E. (Researcher), Crowther, A. (Researcher), Fearn, G. (Researcher), Hope, A. (Researcher), Iazzolino, G. (Researcher), Jayyousi, M. M. R. (Researcher), Jenatton, M. (Researcher), Karaoud, A. (Researcher), Kaur, R. (Researcher), Knox, H. (CoI), Koutlou, A. (Researcher), Kuriakose, J. (Researcher), Lansell, E. (Researcher), Lucas, K. (Researcher), MacGregor, S. (Researcher), Mininni, G. (Researcher), Mylan, J. (Researcher), Narayan, U. (Researcher), Newbould, M. (Researcher), Nimmo, R. (Researcher), O'Rourke, A. (Researcher), O'Neill, J. (Researcher), O'Brien, S. (Researcher), Paterson, M. (Researcher), Petrova, S. (Researcher), Sambrook, K. (Researcher), Shaw, A. (Researcher), Simsek, K. F. (Researcher), Sugar, K. (CoI), Swift, A. (Researcher), Waller, L. (Researcher), Wang, D. (Researcher), Welch, D. (Researcher), Zhao, Y. (CoI) & Zhou, S. (Researcher)
1/10/25 → …
Project: Research
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Organisations of Hope: Building a Creative Consortium for Health Equity in Greater Manchester
Parry, S. (PI), Forbes, C. (CoI), Hawley-Hague, H. (CoI) & Munford, L. (CoI)
1/11/22 → 31/07/23
Project: Research
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CARE: Care Aesthetics Research Exploration Project
Thompson, J. (PI), Keady, J. (CoI), Maguire-Rosier, K. (Researcher) & Polonyi, R. (Researcher)
1/03/22 → 28/02/25
Project: Research
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Whose role is it to act on climate resilience?: Implementing Yorkshire's Climate Action Plan with Leeds City Council
Scott-Bottoms, S. (PI)
1/11/21 → 31/10/22
Project: Research
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Impacts
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British popular performance cultures of the 19th Century, for audiences of the 21st Century
Featherstone, A. (Participant)
Impact: Cultural impacts
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Exploring how the practice of care might be understood as an aesthetic practice (Care Aesthetics Lab)
Keady, J. (Corresponding participant), Thompson, J. (Participant) & Kindell, J. (Participant)
Impact: Awareness and understanding, Health and wellbeing, Society and culture
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In Place of War (IPOW) - Supporting, developing and promoting artists from conflict zones: from responsive research to internationally significant arts organisation
Thompson, J. (Participant), Jeffers, A. (Participant) & Hughes, J. (Participant)
Impact: Awareness and understanding, Economic, Society and culture
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Activities
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Democracy at play: making ‘theatre as politics’ (and not ‘political theatre’)
Polonyi, R. (Speaker)
3 Sept 2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation › Research
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‘Why are we not talking about anarchism?’
Polonyi, R. (Speaker)
29 Aug 2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation › Research
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Le Mans University (External organisation)
Jeffers, A. (Academic expert member)
1 Jun 2025 → 1 Sept 2028Activity: Membership › Membership of network › Research
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Bite Back: Exploring Food, Activism and Care
Ibkar, A. (Co-Organiser), Polonyi, R. (Co-Organiser) & Imray Papineau, E. (Co-Organiser)
27 May 2025Activity: Participating in or organising event(s) › Organising a conference, workshop, exhibition, performance, inquiry, course etc › Research
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Methods of participatory theatre for social and political change
Polonyi, R. (Chair)
12 Mar 2025Activity: Participating in or organising event(s) › Organising a conference, workshop, exhibition, performance, inquiry, course etc › Teaching and Research
Datasets
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Jews, Gay People and the Holocaust
Gelbin, C. (Creator), University of Manchester, 18 Mar 2023
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Thomas Brasch – the Life of an Artist
Gelbin, C. (Contributor), Leo Baeck Institute, 25 May 2022
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László Nemes, Oscar-winning director in conversation
Gelbin, C. (Creator), University of Manchester, 16 Feb 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH2PShM7L7Y
Dataset
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Panellist, Podcast #45 Jüdische Geschichte Kompakt – Zwischen Loyalität und Dissidenz: Jüdische Remigrant:innen in der DDR, Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum Potsdam
Fiedler, L. (Creator), Combe, S. (Contributor) & Gelbin, C. (Contributor), Moses Mendelssohn Centre for European-Jewish Studies, Potsdam, 4 Aug 2023
https://juedischegeschichtekompakt.podigee.io/47-zwischen-loyalitaet-und-dissidenz
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Shoah Film Series at Berlin Babylon, 16-30 September 2018
Gelbin, C. (Creator), University of Manchester, 8 Oct 2018
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Prizes
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(Award) Zochonis Special Enterprise Fund
Ibkar, A. (Recipient), 2024
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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2020-21 Faculty of Humanities Outstanding Teaching Award
Deng, M. (Recipient), 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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BAFTSS Best Doctoral Student Article
Deng, M. (Recipient), 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Bicentenary Research Fellowship
Polonyi, R. (Recipient), 1 Jun 2025
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Press/Media
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Interview: Protest, Performance, and Care - with Alisha Ibkar (Episode 25 of Careful Thinking)
11/11/25
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other
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For Jews in East Germany, a Life of Contraditions
23/11/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert comment
Student theses
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A Desacralisation of Violence in Modern British Playwriting
Alied, A. (Author), Gale, M. (Supervisor) & Clements, R. (Supervisor), 16 Aug 2014Student thesis: Phd
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Afghan theatres since 9/11: from and beyond Kabul
Chow, C. M. E. (Author), Thompson, J. (Supervisor) & Hughes, J. (Supervisor), 15 Nov 2016Student thesis: Phd
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A Performance of Time: The Intersecting Temporalities of Cinema and Dementia
Deng, M. (Author), Butler, D. (Supervisor) & Chan, F. (Supervisor), 17 Dec 2019Student thesis: Phd
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APPLIED THEATRE AND DRUGS: COMMUNITY, CREATIVITY AND HOPE
Zontou, Z. (Author), Thompson, J. (Supervisor), 19 May 2011Student thesis: Phd
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Applied Theatre and the Promotion of Spiritual Wellbeing: A Critical Examination of Ten Years of Creative Practice with Young People (2004-2014)
Irwin, M. (Author), Thompson, J. (Supervisor) & Hughes, J. (Supervisor), 28 Feb 2019Student thesis: Phd
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