PhD

Since October 2021, I have been a part-time PhD student at the University of Leeds undertaking practice research at the School of Performance and Cultural Industries.

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RESEARCH SUMMARY

My doctoral practice research combines my performance and translation skills. This means I conduct research through devising, performing and translating theatre pieces in collaboration with professional theatre artists in Britain and Germany. I’m interested in what happens when theatre travels across national borders. What happens to the pieces when they are translated? In what way do they change? What can we learn from the experience of the performer who presents the same piece in two different languages for two different cultural settings?

My first practice research project involved the development of the theatre play As The Crow Flies. The piece was created in collaboration with German theatre artists and in partnership with Globe Berlin where it premiered in July 2022. Following a successful run at the Globe throughout the summer, I translated As The Crow Flies into English and performed it in Manchester and Leeds in November of the same year..

My second practice research project, Phobia, was developed with an interdisciplinary team of English artists and in partnership with Stage@Leeds and Waterside Arts Centre, Sale. Phobia premiered in June 2025 in Leeds and is currently being translated for performances in Germany. Phobia received funding from the Arts Council England. www.thisisphobia.com

AWARDS

2025 Winner of AHC Partnership Award – The Research Experience at the University of Leeds for “Student-Staff Partnership of the Year”

2024 Nomination for Partnership Award at the University of Leeds for “Postgraduate Researcher of the Year“

2024 Nomination for Partnership Award at the University of Leeds for “Innovation Award”

RESEARCH PROJECTS

2025 “Emotions in Protest and Resistance”, funded by Research Innovation, School of LCS, University of Leeds, ROLE: Creative Workshop Facilitator

2024-25 “SPEAK UP!”, a National Theatre research programme, ROLE: Research Assistant

2023-24 “Ways of Knowing”, funded by Research England’s Enhancing Research Culture (ERC), ROLE: Researcher and Creative Workshop Facilitator

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Oct 2025 – Creative Methods as Research, University of Warwick, presentation title: “Un-disciplining German Studies: Collaborative Approaches Across Boundaries” (co-presented with Nicole Bögelein, Louise Earnshaw and Ingrid Sharp)

Aug 2023 – Performance Studies International, Johannesburg, South Africa, presentation title: “As The Crow Flies – Exploring Identity through Making and Migrating Performances“