Dr Matthew Reason - Publications and Papers

Monographs

The Young Audience: Exploring and Enhancing Children’s Experiences of Theatre
Due to be published 2010 by Trentham Books - In progress

Documentation, Disappearance and the Representation of Live Performance. Monograph, Palgrave Macmillan - October 2006

Peer-review journal articles

‘Interpreting Children’s Responses to Puppets in Live Theatre: Did you watch the man or did you watch the goose?’, New Theatre Quarterly 24 (pp 337-354) - November 2008

‘Thinking Theatre: Enhancing Children’s Theatrical Experiences Through Philosophical Enquiry’, Childhood and Philosophy 4: 7 - June 2008
Available www.filoeduc.org/childphilo/n7/Matthew_Reason.pdf

‘Approaches to the Newspaper Archive: Content Analysis and Press Coverage of Glasgow’s Year of Culture’, Media, Culture & Society 29:2 (pp 304-331) - Spring 2007

‘Audience’, Performance Research 11:3 (pp 7-10) - September 2006

‘Young Audience and Live Theatre, Part 1: Methods, Participation and Memory in Audience Research’ Studies in Theatre and Performance 26:2 (129-145) – 2006

‘Young Audience and Live Theatre, Part 2: Perceptions of Liveness in Performance’, Studies in Theatre and Performance 26:3 (pp 221-241) – 2006

‘Glasgow’s Year of Culture and discourses of cultural policy on the cusp of globalisation’, Contemporary Theatre Review 16:1 (pp 73-85) - February 2006

‘Still Moving: The Revelation or Representation of Dance in Still Photography’, Dance Research Journal 35:2 & 36:2 (pp 43-67) - Summer 2004

‘Theatre Audiences and Perceptions of “Liveness” in Performance’, Participations 1:2 (www.participations.org) - May 2004

‘Archive or Memory?: The Detritus of Live Performance’,
New Theatre Quarterly 19:1 (pp 82-9) - February 2003

‘Writing the Olfactory in the Live Performance Review’
Performance Research 8:3 (pp 73-84) - September 2003

Book Chapters

‘Cartoons and the Comic Exposure of the City of Culture’,
Chapter in Urban Mindscapes of Europe, European Studies Series 23 (Rodopi). Ed. G. Weiss Sussex and F. Bianchini. (pp 176-196) - October 2006

Other Publications

‘Dance, Photography and Kinesthetic Empathy’ online paper - Autumn 2008
Available:www.watchingdance.org/research/documents/MRPhotographypaperedit.pdf

‘Drawing the Theatrical Experience: How Children Watch Theatre’, report document 16pp ISBN 978-1-906604-04-2 - May 2008

‘Drawing the Theatrical Experience: An Investigation into Children’s Theatre’ Executive Summary. Scottish Government Education Department - Sept 2007
Available www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/09/SpR-DTTE/Q/Page/1

‘Reflections and Postcards from a Dance Research Journey Without Certainties.’ The Doubt Guardian No 2 (pp 3-4) - Spring 2005

‘Young Audiences and Live Theatre’, report document 12 pp ISBN 978-1-906604-05-9 - April 2005

Edinburgh Review, Review Editor, ER103-106 (1999-2001),
Issue Editor, ER105 ‘Theatre in Scotland’ (2000) - 1999-2001

Selected Conferences

What is an Experience of Performance?’
Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA)
University of Plymouth - September 2009

‘Exploring Kinesthetic Empathy Through Audience Research’
Watching Dance Consultative Forum, University of Manchester - September 2008

‘Drawing the Theatrical Experience: An Investigation into Children'sTheatre’
Presented at:
-International Conference on Art in Society, Common Ground, University of Edinburgh (August 2006).
-WYSIWYG, Showcase of Children’s and Young People’s Theatre, Imaginate, The Byre Theatre, St Andrews (Sept 2006).
-Barbaro International Festival of Children’s Theatre, Galway, Ireland (Oct 2007)
-Issacs Early Arts Network CPD Day, Leeds (Oct 2009)
2006-2009
‘School Theatre Visits: Cultural Rights or Cultural Confidence?’,
International Conference on Cultural Policy Research, EDUCULT, University of Vienna, Austria - July 2006

‘What is research anyway? Reflections on the successes and failures of a dance research opportunity without certainties’
Partice as Research in Performance (PARIP)
University of Leeds - July 2005

‘Photography and the Pre-presentation of Performance’
The Stage Represented Conference,
University of Toronto, Canada - October 2004

‘Cartoons and the Comic Exposure of the City of Culture’
Urban Mindscapes of Europe Conference, De Montfort University - April 2004