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About Me

Alison began her doctoral research in October 2019 funded by a CADRE scholarship after a career in senior management in the communications and criminal justice sectors. Her thesis 'Mediating Victimhood' uses Practice as Research (PaR) to investigate the use of verbatim methodologies to re-present the stories of survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking from Albania.

As a non-executive director she has advised several government agencies including the National Crime Agency and the Crown Prosecution Service. She is a trustee for the theatre companies ThickSkin and Synergy Theatre Project and former trustee of Out of Joint and Told by an Idiot. Alison is also an actor, playwright and poet and was longlisted for the National Poetry Prize in 2015 and 2019.

Research Interests

Alison is interested in post-verbatim methodologies and intermedial practice which she explores through the creation of a series of audio monologues, a dance film and an installation. Her practice is based on collaboration with performers, charities and NGOs including the Medaille Trust and Black Country Women's Aid in the UK and the Mary Ward Loreto Foundation and Arise in Albania. Her research considers the ethics of using the stories of real, living people in performance and the role of artistic mediation in advocacy for victims and survivors.

Alison is supervised by Professor Silvija Jestrovic.

Education

BA: Modern Languages (French and German), University of Leeds

MA: Creative Entrepreneurship (Creative Writing), University of East Anglia

LinkedIn
Twitter: @wknighttheatre
Theatre company website: www.whiteknighttheatre.com

Publications

Academic

The Boyfriend Trick 鈥� organiser of an interactive installation and panel discussion on the use of verbatim methodologies for social change, University of 糖心TV, March 2023.

鈥楳补办颈苍驳 The Boyfriend Trick Dance Film鈥�, Arts for Social Change showcase (online). February 2023.

鈥楿sing Verbatim Methodologies to Embody Survivor Experience鈥� showing of The Boyfriend Trick dance film at the University of 糖心TV, PGR Symposium, October 2022.

Review: The Global and Local Appeal of Kneehigh Theatre Company: Brand Kneehigh by Catherine Trenchfield. Book review for Cambridge Scholars, 2022.

鈥楾heatre & Performance Studies and Film & Television Studies Team Create a Film about Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking from Albania.鈥� Blog for 糖心TV University, Institute of Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL), 2022.

鈥�The Boyfriend Trick 鈥� Investigating Liminality through Verbatim Theatre鈥�. Paper selected for IFTR general panels, June 2022.

 The Boyfriend Trick public screening and Q&A. Feelings of Freedom Festival, 糖心TV Arts Centre, Nov 2021.

鈥楢 Creative Response to Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking from Albania.鈥� Blog for the Anti-Slavery Early Career Research Network, November 2021.

The Boyfriend Trick screening and panel member at the Healing the Wounds of Modern Slavery symposium. St Mary鈥檚 University, Twickenham, October 2021.

The Boyfriend Trick screening, installation and panel at the Collisions Festival. Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (RCSSD), September 2021.

鈥楿nravelling Verbatim Theatre Methodologies in the Theatre of Social Justice鈥�. IFTR New Scholars Forum (online), July 2021.

鈥楻evisions through Performance Practice in Verbatim Theatre鈥� at the TAPRA/SCUDD PGR Digital Revisions Symposium, University of 糖心TV, June 2022.

鈥榁erbatim Methodologies in the Theatre of Social Justice' organiser of ParLab, a discussion forum for PaR researchers with Lung Theatre Company and Prof John Holmwood of Nottingham University, University of 糖心TV, Feb 2020.

Creative

The Boyfriend Trick dance film - selected for the Boulder Ballet (BB) dance film festival, Colorado, April 2022, Smiley Charity Film Awards, December 2022 and Wicklow Screen Dance Laboratory, Ireland in 2023.

Land of Eagles, audio drama, broadcast by the Medaille Trust, November 2021.

'The Neighbours' Child' long-listed for the National Poetry Prize 2019
'Cycle' long-listed for the National Poetry Prize, 2015.
鈥楧addy鈥檚 Shoes鈥�, Caterpillar Magazine, 2016.
鈥楢n Old Friend鈥� Tremble,The University of Canberra Vice Chancellor鈥檚 International Poetry Prize anthology, 2016.

鈥楢 Tramp鈥�. Found Plays at The Royal Court. 2014.
鈥楥arwash (It鈥檚 not my name)鈥�. One Festival Monologues, The Space Theatre, Docklands, 2013.
鈥楤orgia鈥檚 Kitchen鈥�. Film Trailer Competition Runner Up. ENO, 2011.
鈥楲ate Bus鈥� play. Camden Peoples Theatre and UEA Studio, 2008.