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Biography
Tom Maguire is Head of the School of Arts & Humanities at Ulster University. 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-Investigator for the AHRC-funded Future Screens NI project and for Museums, Crisis and Covid-19, also funded by the AHRC.
A Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Tom teaches on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and supervises research students in Drama and in Museums and Cultural Heritages.
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Education/Academic qualification
Unknown, Higher Education Academy
Award Date: 7 Dec 2020
PhD, University of Glasgow
1 Sep 1988 → 1 Jan 1992
Award Date: 1 Jul 1992
Master, University of Edinburgh
Oct 1984 → Jun 1988
Award Date: 5 Jul 1988
External positions
Chair of the Board, International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network
Mar 2021 → …
Board Member
10 Dec 2020 → …
Member, Peer Review College, AHRC
2014 → …
Advisory Board Member, About Performance Journal
Chair of Board, Big Telly Theatre Company, Northern Ireland
Keywords
- AM Museums (General). Collectors and collecting (General)
- Heritage
- Museum Studies
- PR English literature
- drama
- theatre
- performance
- Theatre for Young Audiences
- Irish drama
- Scottish theatre
- applied theatre
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Performing Story on the Contemporary Stage
Maguire, T., 26 Jan 2015, 1 ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 224 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Curating Hatred: The Joe McWilliams's Controversy at the Ulster Museum
Maguire, T., 11 May 2017, In: Journal of Hate Studies. 13, 1, p. 61-83 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Heritage After Conflict: Northern Ireland
Crooke, E. (ed.) & Maguire, T. (ed.), 2 Aug 2018, Routledge. 175 p. (Routledge Studies in Heritage; vol. 11)Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Watching Girls Watching: Hetpaleis’s Hamilton Complex
Maguire, T., 1 Nov 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) Diversity, Representation, and Culture in TYA. van de Water, M. (ed.). 1st ed. Cape Town, Vol. n/a. p. 46-57 12 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Performing Imaginary Healings: The post- conflict heritage of Ebrington Barracks
Maguire, T., 4 Oct 2019, Urban Heritage in Divided Cities: Contested Pasts. Ristic, M. & Frank, S. (eds.). 1st ed. London and New York: Routledge, p. 223-237 15 p. (Key Issues in Cultural Heritage).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
2 Citations (Scopus)
Activities
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Dialogue, Performance and the Body Politic in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Maguire (Participant)
5 Feb 2021 → 6 Feb 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
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Theatre, presence and communitas in social isolation: COVID-19 and Zoe Seaton’s The Tempest and Operation Elsewhere online
Thomas Maguire (Speaker)
5 Feb 2021 → 6 Feb 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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UN-Heard: Assitej International Manifesto.
Thomas Maguire (Participant)
11 Mar 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
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Beginning the journey: Legacy and Innovation in TYA
Thomas Maguire (Member of programme committee)
22 Mar 2021 → 23 Mar 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
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Talking TYA 2020
Thomas Maguire (Member of programme committee)
Oct 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
Press / Media
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How training for stage and screen can combat bullying and abuse
7/11/17
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment