Overview
Based out of Ipswich, DanceEast is the home of dance in the East of England and have been facilitating dance education and community projects, as well as operating a live theatre venue, for over thirty years. With Paul Hamlyn Foundation funding, DanceEast is undertaking a major project creating new applications of digital technologies for teaching dance and integrating dance education within the primary school curriculum. This PhD studentship, funded by the University of Essex in partnership with DanceEast, will develop innovative evaluation strategies for measuring the social, cultural, and economic impact of this exciting DanceEast project. Through the evaluation of the DanceEast case study, the PhD candidate will develop a new, multimodal framework for the evaluation of arts and cultural programmes more widely.
The studentship will sit across the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the Faculty of Social Science, with joint supervision from Essex Business School and East 15 Acting School. The studentship embodies the aims of the University of Essex’s Digital, Cultural and Creative (DCC) sub-strategy and will be embedded within the pan-University DCC Research Network.
The successful candidate will join the University’s January intake onto the PhD Drama and Performance, based in East 15 Acting School. The term begins 25 April 2022 and registration must commence by 17 March 2022. As part of the studentship, candidates will undertake training through both East 15 and Essex Business School and may be based at either the Colchester or Southend campus. While research and supervision may be partly remote, some site visits and periods of in-person working will be required.