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Professor
Northlands Road, Magee Campus
BT48 7JL Londonderry
United Kingdom
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Tom Maguire, Professor of Contemporary Drama and Performance, is the Head of the School of Arts & Humanities. His research engages with the relationships between performance, identity, place and power particularly in Britain and Ireland. He has published widely in the fields of Irish theatre and Scottish theatre, as well as in the areas of Theatre for Young Audiences and Storytelling Performance. He has also undertaken a number of heritage research projects, including the collection Heritage after Conflict: Northern Ireland, co-edited with Professor Elizabth Crooke in 2018.
In 2021, he was elected as Chair of the Board of the International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network (ITYARN), one of the constituent networks of ASSITEJ, the international association for theatre for young audiences. He is a co-founder of the Talking TYA research network in Ireland.
He is a Co-Investigator for the AHRC-funded Future Screens NI project and was a Co-I for Museums, Crisis and Covid-19, also funded by the AHRC.
A Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Distinguished Teaching Fellow of Ulster University, Tom teaches on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and supervises research students in Drama and in Museums and Cultural Heritages.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Unknown, Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy
Award Date: 7 Dec 2020
PhD, Politics, Performance and teh Popular Imagination: Scottish theatre 1979-1990, University of Glasgow
1 Sept 1988 → 1 Jan 1992
Award Date: 1 Jul 1992
Master, MA (hons) English Language and Literature, University of Edinburgh
Oct 1984 → Jun 1988
Award Date: 5 Jul 1988
Chair of the Board, International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network
Mar 2021 → …
Board Member, Young at Art, Belfast
10 Dec 2020 → …
Member, Peer Review College, AHRC
2014 → …
Advisory Board Member, About Performance Journal
Chair of Board, Big Telly Theatre Company, Northern Ireland
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Thomas Maguire (Member of programme committee)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
Thomas Maguire (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
Thomas Maguire (Member of programme committee)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
Thomas Maguire (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
Thomas Maguire (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
7/11/17
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment