Jodie Allinson

MA Drama Course leader and Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Business and Creative Industries, University of South Wales, where she teaches both practical and theoretical classes in twentieth and twenty-first century performance at undergraduate and masters level. Her research areas include interdisciplinary working practices, the nature and process of artistic collaboration, disability and performance. multimedia theatre practice, storytelling and autobiographical performance, theatre and ecology, performance and landscape, and teaching strategies for dyslexia and neurodivergence. 

20th and 21st Century Performance; Performance and Landscape, Devising; Collaboration; Performance and Cognition; Storytelling; Autobiographical Performance; Interdisciplinarity; Performance and Pedagogy; Drama and Dyslexia; Performance pedagogy and neurodivergence.

Current Projects:

2023: Project Co-lead and co-researcher with Adeola Dewis: 'Investigating anti-racist performance pedagogy'.  

2023: Artist (in collaboration with Emily Underwood-Lee) on Inga Burrow's At a Loss project on creative grieving (Exhibition of work due September 2023)

2014 - now: Ongoing research into drama and performance practices that creatively embrace neurodivergence.  Specific focus has been firstly on developing approaches to teaching academic writing and research to students assessed with dyslexia and other SpLDs, and secondly on practices that embrace diverse processing speeds and styles.

Recent Projects:

2017 – 2018:  Research into Storytelling, performance and stroke rehabilitation.

2016: Dream Audience – participant with Emily Underwood-Lee in a five month performance research project with Karen Christopher (previously Goat Island), part of DIY 13 funded by the Live Art Agency

2016: Creative Collaborator as part of Caroline Sabin’s Creative Wales award

2015: Body, Metaphor and Landscape: a four month research project working both inside and outdoors with Yoga and Movement practitioners, to share knowledge and explore working practices

2013-2014: performer/deviser on Day to Go (Bridget Keehan), a site based performance in Barry, South Wales https://www.papertrail.org.uk/day-to-go/ 

Jan. 2013-2015: Body, Space Language – a research, learning and teaching project exploring alternative approaches to working with dyslexia. This project works with students as co-researchers to develop new knowledge into how performance and improvisation techniques can be applied to learning theory and developing fluency in academic language, University of Glamorgan: CELT funded project. The first year of the project worked with Drama students, the second year worked with both Drama and Music students from all years. New strategies for approaching research and learning were then applied to formal teaching situations outside the project, and findings were shared with colleagues throughout the School through research seminars.

In and Between, Cross-Faculty RIS funded project exploring the intersections between film, performance, and creative and critical writing. The project ran between May 2011 and Oct 2012, and led to the creation of On Vocation, a film installation piece co-created with Inga Burrows and screened at Whirley Gig Cinema London 2012; Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, 2013; National Eisteddfod, Denbigh, 2013.

Postgraduate supervision:
Sean Tuan John (PhD) 

Martin Constantine (PhD)

Emma Foley (MRes)

Currently Module Leader for Research Project and Performance, Writing, Research (BA) and Reflective Practice 1 (MA).

Development and leading extra-curricular workshops for neurodivergent students.  Exploring ways of utilising performance-making strategies when working with written language and theory.

Teaching and support with essay writing and research skills particularly for neurodivergent students, both through taught classes and 1-2-1 tutorials.