Simon Floodgate

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  • Director of Postgraduate Taught programmes
  • Programme Director: MA in Education
  • Climate and Sustainability Education Steering Committee member

Areas of interest

  • Drama in Education
  • Drama and Theatre Studies
  • Playback Theatre
  • Applied Theatre
  • Theatre-in-Education
  • Theatre of the Oppressed
  • Sign Theatre
  • Deaf/Hearing Integrated Theatre
  • Disability Theatre

Postgraduate supervision

Masters, PhD and EdD Level Supervision offered in these areas:

  • Drama-in-Education
  • Applied Theatre
  • Theatre-in-Education
  • Playback Theatre
  • Theatre of the Oppressed
  • Sign Theatre
  • Deaf-Hearing Integrated Theatre

Current PhD Student, with Topics/Title of their research:

  • Abdulsalam Ibrahim Alfadhel: The Social Inclusion for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in Primary Mainstream School in Saudi Arabia.
  • Wasayef Albouainain: Multiculturalism in Children’s Socio Dramatic Play: A Preschool Case Study in Saudi Arabia

Teaching

  • BA in Education Studies – Part 1: Creative Learning through the Arts; Part 2: Contextualising Creative Learning through the Arts
  • BA Ed Primary  - Drama input across the programme
  • PhD Supervision, Masters and UG Dissertation Supervision

Enterprise Activity, External Roles and Consultancy:

  • External Examiner for PGCE Secondary Visual & Performing Arts at University of Sussex (2024-27)
  • Member of SCITED (Standing Committee in Teacher Education in Drama)
  • National Drama – Drama Research journal editorial board
  • Member of University Arts Committee
  • Member of Education for Sustainable Development CoP
  • Consultant – Rank & File Theatre: working with refugees, abuse survivors and people with disabilities

Publications

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