Dr Morwenna Carr
Senior Lecturer (Education Academic)
Eastern Gateway 201 - Desk 15
- Email: morwenna.carr@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 266198
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Research area(s)
My academic education research looks at compassion in teaching, the role of community, and co-creation to support academic transition.
My current projects are:
Community of Practice
Working with Dr Meryl Dickinson, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê½ÁÖéÖ±²¥ Law School, we are investigating how Communitites of Practice (groups of peoplebound by shared professional practices) can support academic staff across CBASS. We are running a series of sessions and events across the 2021-22 academic year and will be presenting some findings at the Advance HE Teaching & Learning Conference 2022.
Co-Creation Welcome Week
Working with Harvey Moyne, we are improving and developing Welcome Week through co-creation with our undergraduate students. We have had several interns funded for data collection for this project, courtesy of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê½ÁÖéÖ±²¥, and are excited to be working alongside student colleagues to consider the new directions of induction in our hybrid-working and learning environment.
In my literary research I am particularly concerned with the representation of disabled and gendered bodies on the seventeenth-century stage, and with the ways in which that representation has solidifed contemporary understandings of socially constructed fixed binary sex and the non-normate body.
Research Interests
Pedagogical: compassion * compassionate spaces in institutions * community * growth of community in large schools * transition * induction *co-creation
Literary: Seventeenth-century drama and prose ∙ Early modern performance studies, including Shakespearean drama ∙ Restoration, including drama and prose ∙ Performance studies, with a particular interest in Practice as Research methodology ∙ Audiences and reception ∙ Women’s writing ∙ Gender studies, particularly queer theory ∙ Disability studies