Overview

I am in the process of updating my staff profile over the Summer of 2023. 

For a more up to date list of grants and publications please see: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9305-7633

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Supervision

I am interested in supervising students in the area of community performance (see research students to get an idea of the broad range of subjects and students I have supervised since 2000s).

I am not currently accepting PGR students until January 2024.

Research students

I am currently supervising:

Chloe Bradwell (South West Wales Doctoral Training Studenship), Performing Dementia - Embodied Citizenship (with Margaret Ames, Aberystwyth University).

Bojana Daw Srdanovic (Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health Studenship), Co-producing theatre with people with learning disabilities: Producing professional theatre makers (with  Professor Martin Levinson (Bath Spa) and Professor Manula Barreto)

Helen Keen (Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health Studenship) On Autistic Actors and Lonliness (with Professor Manuela Barreto)

Roger Farrell, Rules, roles, relationships: exploring creative pathways between imaginary play and structured drama in late childhood and the implications for creativity in education and society.

Meghan Johnston, Changing the Script: Performance-based play interventions in domestic violence contexts (writing up corrections post-viva examination).

Tianyu Xiao on theatre interventions in the field of post-partum depression 

Viola (Fangming) Cheng on applying theatre with University students to embody healthy relationships

I have supervised to completion the following PhDs:

Dr Clare Irvine (Australian Postgraduate Research Award) Making it New:  Innovation in Australia's Youth Specific Theatre Field, awarded 2006, University of Newcastle, NSW. [https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/clare-irvine]

Dr Richard Feltham (AHRC studentship) Theatre at work : the characteristics, efficacy and impact of participatory actor-based applied theatre in the workplace, awarded 2012, University of Exeter, UK.

[https://www.richardfeltham.com/]

Dr Erin Walcon (University of Exeter studentship) Vital Spaces, Vital Signs: An exploration of performance-based methods of engagement to facilitate dialogue between localized power structures and youth participants, awarded 2012, University of Exeter, UK.

[https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/drama/staff/ewalcon/] [https://doorsteparts.co.uk/about-us/]

Dr Sarah Evans, Performance-based interventions in sexual health and wellbeing in post-16s education, awarded 2013, University of Exeter, UK.

[https://www.chester.ac.uk/node/33248]

Dr Faustina Brew, An exploration of creative play and secondary school learning: critical praxis in Ghana and the UK”, awarded 2015, University of Exeter, UK.

[https://www.uew.edu.gh/staff/faustina-brew]

Dr Keneth Bamuturaki, PhD, The Poetics of Conscientisation, Empowerment and Social Change: Exploring Community Theatre as a Development Communication Science in post war northern Uganda, awarded 2016, University of Exeter, UK.

[Lecturer in Performing Arts, Kyambogo University, Uganda]

Dr Clark Baim, Stories Yet Untold: The Place of Personal Narrative in Applied Drama,  awarded 2018, University of Exeter, UK.

[http://clarkbaim.com/]

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Publications

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2022

• Schaefer K. (2022) Communities, Performance and Practice, Springer International Publishing, DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-95757-5. [PDF]

2020

• Schaefer K, Abdulla A, Beddow N, Cook J, Elhindi H, Jones I, Harvey T, Hopkins K, Pordes R, Snook S. (2020) Acta community theatre’s ‘cycle of engagement’ and foundation worker programme: creating pathways into cultural participation and work, Studies in Theatre and Performance, volume 40, no. 3, pages 334-345, DOI:10.1080/14682761.2020.1807214.

2019

• Schaefer K. (2019) Enacting Community on Dartmoor: MED Theatre’s Badgerland: A Dartmoor Comedy (2015) and the Spatial Praxis of Community Performance Within a Conservation Zone, Histories of Cultural Participation, Values and Governance, Springer Nature, 97-126, DOI:10.1057/978-1-137-55027-9_5.

2018

• Schaefer KV. (2018) Enacting Community on Dartmoor: MED Theatre’s Badgerland: A Dartmoor Comedy (2015) and the spatial praxis of community theatre, Histories of Cultural Participation, Values and Governance, Palgrave MacMillan.

2017

• Schaefer K, Edwards D, Milling J. (2017) Performing Moretonhampstead: rurality, participation and cultural value, Cultural Trends, volume 26, no. 1, pages 47-57, DOI:10.1080/09548963.2017.1274359. [PDF]

2016

• Schaefer KV, Jeffery G, Wakeford T, Patton N. (2016) The Art of Survival: Social Circus, Youth Regeneration and Projected Community in the North East of Scotland, Performing (for) Survival. Theatre, Crisis, Extremity, Palgrave Macmillan, 185-200, DOI:10.1057/9781137454270_10.

2014

• Milling JR, Lyndon Owen J, Schaefer K, Maheswaran R. (2014) Performing Binge Drinking 1970-2010, Addiction and Performance, Cambridge Scholars, 22-42.

2013

• Schaefer KV. (2013) Something Is Happening Here! Big hART's 'Ngapartji Ngapartji' in Rotterdam, Community, Art, Power. Essays from International Community Arts Festival (ICAF) 2011, Rotterdams Wijktheater, 198-213.

2012

• Schaefer K. (2012) Performing environmental change: MED Theatre and the changing face of community-based performance research, Research in Drama Education, volume 17, no. 2, pages 247-263, DOI:10.1080/13569783.2012.670425.

2010

• Schaefer K, Thomson P, Moran J, Goldingay S, Daboo J, Thomson P. (2010) Reviews, Studies in Theatre and Performance, volume 30, no. 3, pages 361-371, DOI:10.1386/stap.30.3.361_5. [PDF]

2009

• Schaefer K. (2009) Power Plays: Australian Theatre and the Public Agenda. By Hilary Glow. Sydney: Currency Press, 2007; pp. 220. $26.50 paper. - Unsettling Space: Contestations in Contemporary Australian Theatre. By Joanne Tompkins. Houndmills, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006; pp. 216. $84.95 cloth, Theatre Survey, volume 50, no. 1, pages 163-166, DOI:10.1017/s0040557409001100.
• Schaefer KV. (2009) "Power Plays. Australian Theatre and the Public Agenda" by Hilary Glow (Currency Press, Sydney, 2007) and "Unsettling Space. Contestations in Contemporary Australian Theatre" by Joanne Tompkins (Palgrave Macmillan 2006), Theatre Survey, volume 50, pages 163-166.
• Schaefer KV. (2009) The Birabahn/Threlkeld project: place, history, memory, performance and coexistence, Political Performance. Theory and Practice, Rodopi, 311-330.
• Schaefer KV. (2009) Staging encounters with the radically absent(ed). The politics and ethics of recent UK performance about asylum, About Performance, volume 9, no. Playing Politics: Performance, Community and Social Change.

2008

• Schaefer KV. (2008) ‘This is my country! This is my country?’: Stalker Theatre Company's Incognita and the auto-ethnographic turn in post-dramatic, site-based Australian theatre, Studies in Theatre and Performance, volume 28, no. 3, pages 197-211.
• Schaefer KV. (2008) Performance, cross-cultural dialogue and coexistence, Research in Applied Drama, Theatre and Performance, Exeter, 2nd - 5th Apr 2008.

2006

• sch001. (2006) Performers, Spectators, Cannibals: making sense of theatrical consumption, The Senses in Performance, Routledge, 180-190.

2000

• Schaefer K. (2000) Staging seduction: the Sydney Front and the postmodern geopolitics of theatre's bodies and spaces, Australian Playwrights, 80-92, DOI:10.1163/9789004485860_011.

1992

• Schaefer K. (1992) writing the body, Social Semiotics, volume 2, no. 1, pages 201-205, DOI:10.1080/10350339209360355.

1991

• SCHAEFER K. (1991) REALITY AND FANTASY, THE PERFORMING BODY IN AN AUSTRALIAN NOH PLAY, TDR-THE DRAMA REVIEW-A JOURNAL OF PERFORMANCE STUDIES, volume 35, no. 4, pages 92-106, DOI:10.2307/1146166. [PDF]

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