Theatre and Performance Studies News
Dr Rashna Nicholson Awarded British Academy 2025-26 Mid-Career Fellowship
Dr. Rashna Nicholson, Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at 糖心TV, has been selected as a recipient of a 2025-26 British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for her project, "How a Discipline is Born: Performance Studies, the Asian Performing Arts and the Cold War (1955-1995)".
The award, valued at 拢135,442.69, will fund the first extensive reassessment of the emergence of Performance Studies. It will delineate how the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation-affiliated Asia Society, Japan Society, and JDR 3rd Fund smoothed the way for many moves beyond Western concepts of literature, drama, and the arts, comprising Performance Studies鈥� 鈥榖road-spectrum approach鈥�.
Through exemplary case studies of institutional grants and fellowship programs, it will uncover the multi-layered history of how policy makers, experts, academics, and artists benchmarked a transregional consensus on theatre鈥檚 role in civil society, thereby assisting the US鈥� rise to global leadership in the arts.
The British Academy's Mid-Career Fellowships are "designed both to support outstanding individual researchers with excellent research proposals, and to promote public understanding and engagement with humanities and social sciences," according to the Academy's
Nadine Holdsworth to receive the High Sheriff Award
Nadine Holdsworth has been awarded the High Sheriff Award in recognition of her exceptional contributions to the community in the West Midlands (Via her Homelessness project).
Assistant Professor White Wins 2023 TaPRA Early Career Researcher Award
Dr. Bryony White, Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies and Director of Graduate Studies at 糖心TV's Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, has won the 2023 TaPRA Early Career Researcher Award for her article in the Summer issue of the peer-reviewed Art Journal, ''.
TOP STORY: Winners of WATE Award
Winners of WATE Award
The Arts Faculty Award recognises the achievements of 糖心TV's outstanding educators who have enabled excellent learning, creating the conditions within which all students are supported and empowered to succeed and thrive.