Impact and innovation
Impact case study
Applied theatre as intervention in wellbeing
Research into Applied Theatre has focused on the use of theatre as a means of raising public and professional awareness of the cultural contexts and experience of illness.
The University of Exeter Drama department’s research in Applied Theatre has had impact in the improvement of community understandings of mental health. It provides professional development for medics and teachers, informing training in applied and community theatre.
Impact case study
Connecting Cornwall
A research project looking at the lives and careers of the ‘ordinary’ men who operated the Victorian and Edwardian British submarine cable network has been fundamental in building a working relationship with the Porthcurno Telegraph Museum (PTM) that now paves the way for future research based collaborations.
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Political dynamics in post-2003 Iraq
Following the US-led occupation of Iraq in 2003, research by Professor Gareth Stansfield into conflict management, political mobilisation, and the rebuilding of the Iraqi state has informed UK government and international policy.
Impact case study
Enhancing understanding of allergic diseases
Professor Mark Jackson’s research on the history of allergy and asthma, carried out in the Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter, has enhanced clinical, commercial and policy understandings of the social, political and cultural, as well as biological, determinants of allergic diseases in the modern world.