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Name
Mr Peter Rumney
School
School of Art and Design
Staff group(s)
Theatre Design
Telephone
+44 (0)115 848 4850
Address
School of Art and Design
Nottingham Trent University
Burton Street
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG1 4BU

Job title

Senior Lecturer, Theatre Design

Job responsibilities

Peter teaches in the undergraduate Theatre Design course and has a particular interest in critical practice. His work within Theatre Design is linked to his external collaboration with Dragon Breath, a theatre production company that creates and manages regional programmes of theatre with and for young people, in partnership with artists, schools, arts organisations and other education institutions.

Publications

Mr Peter Rumney

Research Centre or Group

Narrative and Interactive Arts

Research, scholarly and professional interests

Research:

  • ‘Shared learning’ in the education sector and creative industries.
  • The efficacy of theatre as a learning tool

Scholarly:

Peter is currently Cultural Partner and Writer in Residence with the Creative Partnerships Nottingham Speaking, Listening and Writing Sneinton Action Research Group of schools. In this role he is investigating ways of developing collaborations with artists, young people and teachers.

Professional:

Peter is a writer, actor, director and community artist and arts animateur. Most of his plays have been written for young people, and he likes to work with his potential audience to create the themes, images and characters that inhabit the performances.  He works with people who might consider themselves marginalised or disenfranchised by mainstream culture or education… such as people with disabilities; refugees; the elderly; and younger children with emotional and behavioural difficulties, with whom he has pioneered a number of arts programmes.

Sponsors and collaborators

  • Arts Council England (ACE)
  • Creative Partnerships
  • East Midlands Development Agency (EMDA)
  • Centre for Effective Learning in Science
  • Ignite
  • Leicester Theatre Trust
  • New College Nottingham
  • Creative Partners 4 Progression
  • Ellis Guilford School and Sports College, Nottingham
  • Write Muse (Leicestershire Open Museum Service)
  • Dance 4

Current projects

  • 2004 to 2006, Creative Partnerships Nottingham, Research Bursary for project Speaking, Writing and Listening in primary schools.
  • 2005 to 2007, ACE and EMDA provided support to Dragon Breath for The Icarus Project.
    This performance/education project engaged secondary school students with the moral and ethical issues of stem cell technologies through epic visual theatre and a contextualised programme of creative learning. The performances were the culmination of an 18-month cycle of research and development by artists working with undergraduates on the development of form, to devise creative learning tools for science teaching in schools. The programme feeds into Peter’s ongoing research into developing creative curricula in schools. The project extended ways of teaching the 2008 21st Century Science Curriculum, both in and outside the school science laboratory.
  • 2004-5 Creative Partnerships provided support for ‘Dragon Breath’.
    This 15-month performance and education research programme, worked inclusively with primary school children designated as having ‘emotional and behavioural difficulties’. Taking the ‘child’s voice’ as both the inspiration for - and evaluation of - the artist’s work, this project investigated the efficacy of interdisciplinary teams subverting the conventional school curriculum, effecting a re-positioning of teachers’ attitudes to angry young people.

External academic and professional activity

  • 2005, Invited Speaker, Boyz 2 Men: A Creative Journey - Creative Partnerships School Coordinators Conference, Warwick University.
  • 2005, Judge, ACE John Whiting Award.
  • 2004, Case Study presentation, Boyz 2 Men: A Creative Journey, ACE ‘Insights’ Conference, Nottingham.
  • 2004, Facilitator, Developing the Writer Writernet Conference, Soho Theatre, London.
  • 2003, Speaker, The Designer and the Playwright,  2D to 3D Society of British Theatre Designers Conference, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield.
  • 2003, Speaker, Writing with and for Young People, Theatrescope Conference, NTU.
  • 2003, Speaker, The Spark, Conference on Young People’s Theatre, Haymarket Theatre, Leicester.
  • 2003, Keynote Speaker, Artsmark Presentations East Midlands, Theatre Royal, Northampton.
  • 2003, Speaker, Engaging children with Literature, Action for Children’s Arts Seminar, Worcester College, Oxford.
  • 2002, Arts Council England John Whiting Best Play Award, Jumping on my Shadow (Theatre Centre, 2002). This was the first play for young people since 1967 to win this award.

Information for prospective research students

Peter is developing work on ‘Cycles of Shared Learning’, researching the use of multiple intelligences through theatre performance created collaboratively by artists, educators, school pupils of all ages, and undergraduates.

Links:

Nottingham Trent University
Burton Street
Nottingham
NG1 4BU

Telephone: +44 (0)115 941 8418
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