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Dr Sophie Ward's Outputs (3)

The Play is a Prison: the discourse of Prison Shakespeare (2018)
Journal Article
Ward, S., & Connolly, R. (2020). The Play is a Prison: the discourse of Prison Shakespeare. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 40(2), 128-144. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682761.2018.1560999

The relationship between Shakespeare and prison was brought into sharp focus during Shakespeare’s recent quad-centenary with a succession of works exploring Shakespeare’s value for the prison population. In this paper, we take this spike in activity... Read More about The Play is a Prison: the discourse of Prison Shakespeare.

Boal, Theatre in Education and the Promotion of Fundamental British Values (2018)
Journal Article
Ward, S. (2018). Boal, Theatre in Education and the Promotion of Fundamental British Values. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 16(3), 38-67

This paper offers a critical analysis of the imposition of Fundamental British Values (FBVs) in schools and nurseries as part of Prevent, the UK’s counter-terrorism strategy, and compares the rationale of this policy with the motivation for Theatre i... Read More about Boal, Theatre in Education and the Promotion of Fundamental British Values.

In Search of Progress: Female Academics after Jane Eyre (2018)
Journal Article
Ward, S. (2018). In Search of Progress: Female Academics after Jane Eyre. Other Education, 7(2), 55-74

Charlotte Brontë’s novel about a female educator, Jane Eyre, was published in 1847. This current paper asks: what progress has been enjoyed by female academics since Charlotte’s day? Although women are no longer disbarred from academia, there is inte... Read More about In Search of Progress: Female Academics after Jane Eyre.