Interview with Professor Helen Nicholson

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Professor Helen Nicholson, Editor of RiDE: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance.

This is the 29th audio interview in a series that Routledge is conducting with the editors of some of its key Education journals.

The interview page has been split into sections which can be quickly accessed by selecting any of the links below:

• Introduction
• Helen Nicholson answers the questions
• More about the Editor
• Suggested Reading and Related Articles
• Other publications featuring Helen Nicholson

Introduction

These interviews are aimed at students, educational researchers, academics and visitors to the Education Arena website who are interested in particular journals and would like to find out more.

Each interview provides information about the Editor(s) in question and details about the creation of their journal, its purpose and scope within the wider sphere of educational research. Each Editor is also asked to offer advice, hints and tips to prospective authors who may be hoping to submit papers to their journal.

This twenty-ninth interview is with Helen Nicholson, Editor of RiDE: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance. The journal is a refereed journal, aimed at those who are interested in applying performance practices to cultural engagement, educational innovation and social change. It provides an international forum for research into drama and theatre conducted in community, educational, developmental and therapeutic contexts. The journal offers a dissemination of completed research and research in progress, and through its Points and Practices section it encourages debate between researchers both on its published articles and on other matters. Contributions are drawn from a range of people involved in drama and theatre from around the world. It aims to bring the fruits of the best researchers to an international readership and to further debates in the rich and diverse field of educational drama and applied theatre.

Professor Helen Nicholson answers the questions

This interview took place at Royal Holloway on 3rd June, 2011

We also provide a transcription of this interview to overcome accessibility problems if you have hearing difficulties (or for those of you who may just prefer to read the interview).

More about Professor Helen Nicholson

Helen Nicholson is professor of theatre and performance at Royal Holloway, University of London where she specialises in applied performance and theatre education.

Professor Helen Nicholson is co-editor of Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, and works closely with Professor Joe Winston at the University of Warwick, who is editor in charge of themed issues. Helen has been on the editorial board of the journal since its inception in 1995. At Royal Holloway, she teaches undergraduate courses in theatre education, the performance of memory and contemporary theatre making, and leads the MA pathway in applied theatre. Her research focuses on how innovative theatre and performance practices are compatible with learning, public engagement and civic participation. She has led practice-based research projects in Japan and South Africa as well as working in many different settings in the UK such as schools, prisons, hospitals, and care homes for older adults.

Recent publications include Theatre, Education and Performance: The Map and the Story (Palgrave, 2011), Theatre & Education (Palgrave, 2009) and with Baz Kershaw (eds.) Research Methods in Theatre and Performance (Edinburgh University Press, 2011).

Suggested Reading and Related Articles

Helen Nicholson recommends the following articles from RiDE: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance:

Imagining cosmopolitan space: spectacle, rice and global citizenship
By Simon Parry
Volume 15, Issue 3, Pages 317-337

Theatre of rural empowerment: the example of Living Earth Nigeria Foundation's Community Theatre Initiative in Cross River State, Nigeria
By Liwhu Betiang
Volume 15, Issue 1, Pages 59-78

Disability: creative tensions between drama, theatre and disability arts, Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance
By Colette Conroy
Volume 14, Issue 1, Pages 1-14

When drama praxis rocks the boat: struggles of subjectivity, audience, and performance
By Kathleen Gallagher & Dominique Rivièère
Volume 12, Issue 3, Pages 319-330

Revisiting a dream-site of liberation: the case of Mukta Natak in Bangladesh
By Syed Jamil Ahmed
Volume 16, Issue 1, Pages 5-27

"Dye mon, gen mon" ("Beyond the mountains, more mountains"). Social theatre, community mobilisation and participation after disasters: The International Organization for Migration experience in Haiti, after January 2010's earthquake
By Guglielmo Schininàà, Justin Voltaire, Amal Ataya & Marie-Adele Salem
Volume 16, Issue 1, Pages 47-54

Other publications featuring Helen Nicholson

Making a Performance
By Emma Govan, Helen Nicholson, Katie Normington
Published 15th May 2007 by Routledge