About the project
This Resesarch, Development and Engagement Fellowship is held by Professor Liz Tomlin (PI) in the School of Culture and Creative Industries at the University of Glasgow, and is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The project seeks to kick-start a reorientation of class discourse within theatre studies away from its current focus on the most precarious working-class subjects towards consideration of a much broader spectrum of working-class identities and how these are configured on our stages and in arts policy. Eighteen months of research activity will seek to influence and invigorate sustained interdisciplinary dialogue between theatre artists and scholars from sociology, cultural policy and theatre studies through two symposia, a three-day conference and a special issue journal. This interdisciplinary scholarly research will also be further placed into dialogue with a wider field of artists, producers and policy makers from the theatre industry through three regional workshops that will be designed to enable industry professionals to engage with the research questions and insights from the project in relation to their own policies and practice. The aim of these workshops is to examine what the practical and material outcomes for projects and policy informed by these insights might be and where the insights of the research so far might be contested or developed.