TaPRA 2019

 What 'counts' as research? Navigating the REF in early career research.  

Our two guest speakers will each offer strategies for navigating the impact of the Research Excellence Framework upon the already precarious climate of early career research. Drawing from their varied and substantial experiences in the discipline, each speaker will address how to respond to the criteria for assessing research ‘outputs’ in productive ways.  
 
Followed by open questions and discussion.  
 
Tea / Coffee will be provided in the venue.

This panel has been organised by the PG representatives on the TaPRA Executive Committee, Hannah Greenstreet and Cathy Sloan.

Speakers:

Prof. Roberta Mock  
Roberta Mock is Professor of Performance Studies and Director of the Doctoral College at the University of Plymouth. She is also the Chair of TaPRA. Roberta is a veteran of four UK research assessment exercises, has written and led submissions in two, and has been a member of her University's RAE/REF/Research Strategy and Steering Groups for over a decade. Her own research tends to focus on gender and sexuality in live art and popular performance, and is expressed in both textual/written forms and as creative practice. 
 
Dr. Margherita Laera 
Margherita Laera is a Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at the University of Kent, Canterbury, where she is co-Director of the European Theatre Research Network (with Kent, RCSSD and Aarhus). She has published widely on theatre translation, adaptation, multilingualism and Italian theatre in edited collections and scholarly journals. She is the author of the forthcoming book Theatre & Translation (Red Globe Press, 2019) and of Reaching Athens: Community, Democracy and Other Mythologies in Adaptations of Greek Tragedy(Peter Lang, 2013), and the editor of Theatre and Adaptation: Return, Rewrite, Repeat (Bloomsbury, 2014) and London: Brexit Stage Left (Cue Press, 2019). Margherita is the Online Editor of Theatre Topics and Theatre Journal. She has recently completed a project entitled ‘Translation, Adaptation, Otherness’ (2016–19), for which she received the Theatre and Performance Research Association’s Early Career Research Prize for 2018. She is currently working on two AHRC- and Creative Europe-funded public engagement projects on contemporary playwriting and translation in Europe. Margherita translates plays from and into Italian and English.