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Personal profile
Overview
Sarah is a researcher and practitioner specialising in applied and community theatre and performance practice. Her research examines the social and community value of performance training, with particular interest in the voice.
Biography
Sarah obtained her PhD from the University of Leeds in 2018 and since then has worked at the University of Leeds and the University of Bolton, teaching across theatre and performance, media and communication and applied and community arts. Trained as an applied theatre practice, her work explores performance training as cultural practice, investigating its use in community contexts.
She is also a theatre practitioner based in the north west of England. She is co-director of Salford Community Theatre, an organisation that creates promenade community plays focusing on Salford's industrial past.
Memberships of committees and professional bodies
Co-Editor, Theatre Dance and Performance Training Blog
Convener, TAPRA Performer Training Working Group
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):
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, Political Voice as Embodied Performance: young women, politics and engagement., University of Leeds
Award Date: 1 Aug 2018
Master of Arts, Applied Theatre, The University of Manchester
Award Date: 11 Dec 2014
Bachelor of Arts, Drama with Philosophy, Royal Holloway, University of London
Award Date: 13 Jul 2011
Keywords
- Applied Theatre
- Voice
- Community Theatre
- Performer Training
- Theatre
- Performance
- Political communication
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Research output
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Answer the Question: Voice training, habitus and political intervention
Weston, S., 12 Dec 2019, In: Theatre, Dance and Performance Training. 10, 3, p. 311-312 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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'Being part of something much bigger than self': the community play as a model of implicit and explicit political theatre practice
Weston, S., 26 Nov 2019, In: Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance. 25, 2, p. 161-177 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Redistributing the means of vocal production: Voice training as a tool of political intervention
Weston, S., Apr 2019, In: Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies. 4, 1, p. 37-54 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Dramatizing Deliberation: A Method for Encouraging Young People to Think About Their Rights
Coleman, S., Pothong, K. & Weston, S., 3 Jun 2018, In: Journal of Public Deliberation. 14, 1, 11 p., 2.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review