Prof James Thompson

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Biography

I am currently Professor of Applied and Social Theatre and Associate Vice President for Social Responsbility. I am also the founder and Co-Director of In Place of War - a project researching and supporting arts programmes in war and disaster zones. I've written widely on theatre in conflict and peacebuilding situations and my most recent books are Performance Affects (2009) and Humanitarian Performance (2014).

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Previous teaching: Undergraduate: Stages in Conflict/ Performance and War Courses on Augusto Boal and the Theatre of the Oppressed Prison Theatre Theatre with refugee and asylum seeking communities Postgraduate: Options on the MA in Applied Theatre. Supervision areas: Research Students: Asif Majid - Muslim Youth and Theatre; Ben Dunn - contemporary community based theatre;Garret Scally - Second Language learning and theatre; Sarah Hunter - performance/theatre of Quarantine

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Publications

No More Bystanders- Grandchildren of Hiroshima and the 70th Anniversary of the Atomic Bomb

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Humanitarianism 2.0

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Towards an Aesthetics of Care

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Student Theses

Applied Theatre and the Promotion of Spiritual Wellbeing: A Critical Examination of Ten Years of Creative Practice with Young People (2004-2014)

UoM administered thesis: Phd

Teaching creatively in prison education: an autoethnography of the ground

UoM administered thesis: Phd

Opening the Space: Investigating responsivity in the expertise of applied theatre practitioners

UoM administered thesis: Phd

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Impact

Networking & Supporting the work of theatre artists in and from international war zones

Impact: Societal impacts, Cultural impacts

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