University of Northampton

Faculty Member, School of the Arts

Lecturer

About

Patrick is a performance maker and Lecturer in the Division of Performance Studies, University of Northampton. He gained his PhD from the University of Leeds (2006 - 2009). His continuing research examines the relationship between cultural products and practices and their wider socio-cultural context. With particular focus on spectatorship/audience/witnessing, trauma and ethics, his research is concerned to explore the socio-political efficacy of theatre, performance and other cultural practices.

Patrick has presented his research at numerous national and international conferences and has published work in a range of academic fora on subjects from trauma theory and performance, to Live Art and popular theatre.

Current research projects include:

- a monograph entitled 'Trauma-Tragedy: Symptoms of Contemporary Performance' (Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2012). This project was selected for inclusion in Research Councils UK (RCUK) and Universities UK’s ‘Big Ideas for the Future’ report on ‘excellent research taking place in UK higher education that is likely to have a major impact on the UK and the world in the future’ (RCUK, 2010).

- a practice as research project investigating and modelling a performance practice/strategy which might stimulate ‘presence-in-trauma-effects’

- I co-edited (with Mick Wallis) a special issue of the international journal Performance Research, ‘On Trauma’ (16:1, March 2011). This volume includes a jointly authored editorial and full length headnote essay, both of which have been in Routledge’s ‘most read’ category for that journal since publication.

- co-editing (with Victor Ukaegbu) a volume investigating Britishness, aesthetics and small-scale theatre (Intellect, forthcoming 2012)

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