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Early Career Research Prize
The Early Career Research Prize is open to anyone who falls within the AHRC definition of an early career researcher (8 years of being awarded a PhD OR 6 years of their first full time contract in a teaching /research post). The prize is awarded for a piece of research (including practice-based/applied work) that has had an appropriate form and level of circulation/dissemination (e.g., publication, research project) and has been published or launched within 24 months of the nomination date. Research which has already secured funding (in any shape or form) is eligible as long as it falls within the 24 month limit.
PRIZES
2018
WINNER
Margherita Laera
for work on ‘Translation, Adaptation, Otherness: “Foreignization” in Theatre Practice’ (www.translatingtheatre.com).
Launched right at the point when the UK’s Brexit referendum was reaching its explosive conclusion, the judges felt that the ‘Translation, Adaptation, Otherness’ project represents an important – and deeply timely – investigation of how theatre in translation can be used to address contemporary tensions between varying cultures and languages by disrupting audiences’ expectations. Identifying and addressing a unique problem in a highly innovative way, the project constitutes a significant expansion of our current knowledge of theatre in translation and adaptation, with major implications for both performance scholarship and practice.
SHORTLISTED
Sarah Grochala
for The Contemporary Political Play: Rethinking Dramaturgical Structure (Bloomsbury, 2017)
Joanne Scott
for Intermedial Praxis and Practice as Research: ‘Doing-Thinking’ in Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
WINNING
The Prize
The Prize consists of a free conference place (membership fee, conference dinner and accommodation excluded) and a cheque for £200.
2018
Margherita Laera
for work on ‘Translation, Adaptation, Otherness: “Foreignization” in Theatre Practice’ (www.translatingtheatre.com).
Launched right at the point when the UK’s Brexit referendum was reaching its explosive conclusion, the judges felt that the ‘Translation, Adaptation, Otherness’ project represents an important – and deeply timely – investigation of how theatre in translation can be used to address contemporary tensions between varying cultures and languages by disrupting audiences’ expectations. Identifying and addressing a unique problem in a highly innovative way, the project constitutes a significant expansion of our current knowledge of theatre in translation and adaptation, with major implications for both performance scholarship and practice.
Sarah Grochala
for The Contemporary Political Play: Rethinking Dramaturgical Structure (Bloomsbury, 2017)
Joanne Scott
for Intermedial Praxis and Practice as Research: ‘Doing-Thinking’ in Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
2017
Kirsty Sedgman
for development of work on audience research including Locating the Audience (Intellect, 2016).
The judges felt that few studies in this field are as successful as this in demonstrating the complexity of research that is able to deliver a real understanding of audience experience while maintaining a sharp critical focus. The work is already having an impact and at a time when the ‘audience experience’ is so often relegated to consumer response and metrics data, Sedgman’s work is a welcome turn to the live and lived experience of and for the people who buy the tickets.
Georgina Guy
for Theatre, Exhibition, and Curation: Displayed & Performed (Routledge, 2016)
Rachel Hann
for leadership in the areas of costume and practice research.
2016
Matt Hargrave
Theatres of Learning Disability: Good, Bad, or Plain Ugly? (Palgrave)
The judges felt that from inside, from outside, this project shows change towards place in action and declares its ambition for further work. It is the work of considered scholarship and practice: far reaching, versatile, inclusive and impactful both for the communities with which it worked and for the academic sector which TaPRA represents.
Royona Mitra
Akram Khan: Dancing New Interculturalism (Palgrave).
George Home-Cook
Theatre and Aural Attention: Stretching Ourselves (Palgrave)
Kate Elswit
Watching Weimar Dance (Oxford University Press)
Anna Harpin
for her co-edited collection, Performance, Madness, Psychiatry: Isolated Acts (Palgrave) and an article in the journal Interdisciplinary Science Reviews.
2015
Adrian Curtin
for his book Avant Garde Theatre Sound: Staging Sonic Modernity (Palgrave)
Adam Alston
for his work on the aesthetics and politics of audience participation.
Adam Alston
for his work on the aesthetics and politics of immersive theatre.
Bryce Lease
for his work on Polish and Central European Theatre.
2014
Dominic Johnson
for his extensive work on Live Art.
Vicky Angelaki
The Plays of Martin Crimp: Making Theatre Strange (Palgrave)
Patrick Duggan
Trauma/Tragedy: Symptoms of Contemporary Performance (Manchester University Press)
2013
Laura Cull
for her work in establishing Performance Philosophy through a range of publications and projects.
Dominic Johnson
Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture (Manchester University Press)
Patrick Duggan
Trauma/Tragedy: Symptoms of Contemporary Performance (Manchester University Press)
2012
Jenny Hughes
Performance in a Time of Terror: Critical Mimesis and the Age of Uncertainty (Manchester University Press)
Alison Jeffers
Refugees, Theatre and Crisis: Performing Global Identities (Palgrave)
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Nomination
Only current TaPRA members can submit nominations for our awards or elections. Each nomination requires a seconder, who must also be a current member.
Election Results
The results of the recent Executive election is now published. Including Conference Secretary, Postgraduate reps, Secretary, Communications officer and Working Group Coordinator.
Election Results
The results of the recent Executive election is now published. Including Conference Secretary, Postgraduate reps, Secretary, Communications officer and Working Group Coordinator.
