{"id":116,"date":"2017-07-03T00:13:17","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T23:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/chnewcastleblog\/?p=116"},"modified":"2017-07-03T00:13:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T23:13:17","slug":"performing-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/chnewcastleblog\/2017\/07\/03\/performing-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Performing Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2014 I started to &#8216;write up&#8217; my research on Polish migration to The North East. What I was left with, at the end of three years of long study, was a 99,000 word document that was fairly inaccessible to an audience outside the university, being both long and &#8216;academic&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I then joined a &#8216;performing research&#8217; group in Newcastle, where I aimed to turn sections of my thesis into a play about Polish migration in the North East.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a TED X talk all about the initiative &#8216;Performing Research&#8217;:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Performing research | Gordon Poad | TEDxNewcastle\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3SPZy9zoldc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can read more about some of the research projects turned into theatre work here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.performingresearch.org\/blog\/\">Performing Research Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to read sections of my play, please do ask and I will make hardcopies available.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps think about &#8216;performing&#8217; your research project too; we&#8217;re open to poetry recitals, a theatrical interpretation, even dance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2014 I started to &#8216;write up&#8217; my research on Polish migration to The North East. What I was left with, at the end of three years of long study, was a 99,000 word document that was fairly inaccessible to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/chnewcastleblog\/2017\/07\/03\/performing-research\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6863,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[53,15,54,52,51,50],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-research-examples","tag-dance","tag-geography","tag-literature","tag-migration","tag-performance","tag-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/chnewcastleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/chnewcastleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/chnewcastleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/chnewcastleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6863"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/chnewcastleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/chnewcastleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/chnewcastleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/chnewcastleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/chnewcastleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/chnewcastleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}