Drama Research

@Carleton_U’s Noons for Now, Dr Gallagher explored how drama-making across 6 global sites opens new ways to teach about & learn from the climate crisis. Performance can be a path to socio-ecological justice. Access resources based on the talk here: tinyurl.com/5bpekvmc

It was a joy to launch our recently published book, Global Climate Education and Its Discontents: Using Drama to Forge a New Way, celebrating the diverse voices and approaches to press drama into service for the climate crisis. Order your copy today: tinyurl.com/5ar84tab

📕⚡Dr. Gallagher on her recent book: “...this book takes ‘discontent’ – restlessness, vexation, unease – as a productive disposition for troubling accepted, simple, and ‘solutions-oriented’ climate narratives.” Read full interview here: shorturl.at/7D9wY

New Book Alert: This innovative book offers pedagogical insights and artistic tools on how drama can be used in educational settings to advance creative climate education. Order your copy, shipping now!: surl.li/qoqcxy

🚨NEW ARTICLE ALERT🚨 This recently published work explores speculative fiction, asking: “What would a departure from ‘climate facts’ offer as a possible solution to the climate emergency as a failure of imagination?” tinyurl.com/35zafhtz

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🎤New Media Article Alert: Dr. Kathleen Gallagher and Dr. Christine Balt interviewed by @InnovationCA for an article about the team’s ethnographic and creative research projects, past and current; finding hope and deep learning in the drama classroom. shorturl.at/EKUX7

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👏A big round of applause for @kgallagherphd and @JamesThomp (U. of Manchester) for receiving the “Manchester-Melbourne-Toronto Research Fund” award for their project "THRIVE: Fostering Urban Social and Creative Thriving through the Arts.” 👏

🎉Congratulations to Dr. Kathleen Gallagher @kgallagherphd and her Postdoctoral student, Dr. Christine Balt, for winning the Postdoctoral Fellowship Award for research and research dissemination from the School of Cities for the 2023/24 academic year!

📢UPCOMING TALK: explore how the arts can be used for everyday thriving in cities navigating COVID, the climate emergency, and the vast inequities of our age with @kgallagherphd, @JamesThomp and their post-doc teams. Register here: tinyurl.com/yy858rsf

“...it is a bit of a full-circle moment as this was the organization that recognized my dissertation with a ‘Most distinguished dissertation award’...Now, 25 years later, they have again honoured my research.” Read 👇about Dr. Gallagher's award from AATE shorturl.at/knxR0

Dr. Amanda Buffalo’s pitch for the MIT Indigenous Communities Fellowship: her project will create a community-sourced Indigenous knowledge research database to map experiences of injustice and violence. Vote today! shorturl.at/fsQ24

Vote now for our @OISEUofT colleague Dr. Amanda Buffalo, whose project is a finalist, to create a community-sourced Indigenous knowledge research database that will map experiences of injustice and violence in the Yukon shorturl.at/moxHR

🎉Congratulations to Professor Gallagher whose book Hope In A Collapsing World (@utpress ) has won the Distinguished Book Award from @AATENow🎉

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“...it is not the presence of confidence but the absence of insecurity that is most important to the student of drama, and to the creative spirit generally.” To mark International Theatre Day, @kgallagherphd wrote about her life and research in theatre. bit.ly/3nupUk5

Beyond thrilled to share the details of a powerful conversation between Dr. Kathleen Gallagher @kgallagherphd and Andrew Kushnir @ndrwkushnir (@prjct_humanity) on a recent episode of the Stageworthy Podcast with Phil Rickaby @stageworthypod Listen here: bit.ly/3g2DTJO