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Personal profile
Overview
Reka is an Associate Researcher at the Drama Department, University of Manchester.
She is also a freelance practitioner in socially engaged theatre and applied drama. Her work focuses primarily on immigrant rights advocacy through theatre. Her recent PhD research investigated creative and playful disruptions in public spaces as forms of civil disobedience. Her interests are in bridging the knowledge gap between scholars and practitioners of socially engaged performance practices, and the role of researchers-as-activists.
Reka is the recipient of the Emerging Scholars Award (2020) Common Grounds, Arts in Society Research Network, and the New Scholars Prize (2021), International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR).
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
External positions
Executive Committee member, Theatre and Performance Research Association
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Exploring the everyday care practices of healthcare support workers when working with people with dementia admitted to National Health Service hospital wards in the United Kingdom: a qualitative systematic review of the literature
Kindell, J. A., Harman, K., Maguire-Rosier, K., Polonyi, R., Thompson, J. & Keady, J. D., 7 Jan 2025, In: Aging and Mental Health.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Performing Solidarities or Solidarities Performed: the 'with'
Polonyi, R. & Sadeghi-Yekta, K., 20 Aug 2024, In: RiDE: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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When Theatre Can Wait: The ambiguity of silence in activist theatre
Polonyi, R., 28 Apr 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Performance Research. 27, 3-4, p. 177-179Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Disrupting the hierarchy of knowledge production: the case of documenting social theatre in Palestine
Polonyi, R., 4 Mar 2021, In: Studies in Theatre and Performance. 41, 1, p. 21-39Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Projects
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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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A practice model informed by care aesthetics: health care support workers working with people with dementia on mental health wards for older people in the United Kingdom
Kindell, J. (Creator), Maguire-Rosier, K. (Creator), Polonyi, R. (Creator), Thompson, J. (Creator) & Keady, J. (Creator), University of Manchester Figshare, 16 Jun 2025
DOI: 10.48420/29302226.v1, https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/poster/A_practice_model_informed_by_care_aesthetics_health_care_support_workers_working_with_people_with_dementia_on_mental_health_wards_for_older_people_in_the_United_Kingdom/29302226/1 and one more link, https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/poster/A_practice_model_informed_by_care_aesthetics_health_care_support_workers_working_with_people_with_dementia_on_mental_health_wards_for_older_people_in_the_United_Kingdom/29302226 (show fewer)
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Thesis
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THREATENING PLAY: RADICAL SPACES OF LUDIC DISRUPTIONS
Polonyi, R. (Author), Sjoberg, J. (Supervisor) & Hughes, J. (Supervisor), 31 Dec 2023Student thesis: Phd
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