Performance Research Hub: participatory event grants

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The Performance Research Hub has small pots of up to £500 available to fund participatory events which explore co-creative and collaborative work in theatre and performance.

The Hub provides an arena for researchers and practitioners with shared interests within this field to come together to discuss the theory of performance and to cross-fertilise ideas and practice across a wide range of academic disciplines and communities. This programme of events links directly with the initiatives of the Performance Research Hub, enabling external artists and partners to work with academics to co-create, collaborate and share their research and work in new ways and with new and wider audiences.

Past events

Made possible by the Van Houten Fund.

Plot Holes: exhibition opening
28 November 2024
An opening event for Plot Holes by Ruskin DPhil Frank Wasser, which integrated performance with historical reflection.

Open Rehearsal: The White Whale
28 April 2025
An open rehearsal of The White Whale, a new adaptation of Moby Dick by The Theatre, Chipping Norton in collaboration with Professor Christine Gerrard (English).

What’s in a letter: Queer Temporalities. Performance Lecture and exhibition
3 May 2025
A performative lecture and conversation event exploring an inherently queer epistolary form, with Ruskin DPhil Jen DeNike

Videographic Entanglements: Audiovisual Practice Across Disciplines
9 May 2025
A day of film screenings and round tables to introduce the Journal of Embodied Research, with Ruskin visiting fellow Ben Spatz.

Voiced in Translation: How the real 'Nora' answered back – Laura Kieler and Henrik Ibsen in dialogue
19 May 2025
A workshop with actors looking at he new translations of Ibsen’s plays A Doll’s House and When We Dead Awaken and Laura Kieler’s play Men of Honour with Professor Kirsten Shepherd (English).

‘Sensitivity Reading’ as Dramaturgy – can it really work?
25 October 2025
A workshop using a new play to explore using 'sensitivity reading' as a form of dramaturgy, with Nicholas McInerny (Conted).

New Approaches to Theatrical Form: Radical Realisms in Contemporary British Theatre and Modernism after the Ballets Russes book conversation
5 November 2025
Professor Sos Eltis (English) interviewed Dr Hannah Greenstreet and Dr Gabriela Minden about their newly published books on performance.

Mixing Sound & Vision
6 November 2025
A participatory music production workshop exploring different digital technologies, with Professor Kathryn Eccles (OII).

𒑱 Read Between The Lines :)
11 November 2025
Professor Philomen Probert (Linguistics) and colleagues led a festival of writing at Cheney School, for pupils and members of the public, including a brand new performance.

Beyond Borders: Ukrainian Voices in Performance
20 February 2026
Daria Nepochatova (DPhil, MML) organised an event to explore how Ukrainian stories transform into embodied experience and shared emotional knowledge through theatre.