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Email

christopher.summers@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Lecturer in Arts Education - Drama
Faculty of Education - Admin
Education
Doctorate
Deakin University
Masters
Deakin University
Graduate Diploma
National Institute of Dramatic Art
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
University of Melbourne
ORCID

0000-0002-2291-0553

Dr Chris Summers

Lecturer in Arts Education - Drama
Faculty of Education

20 Scholarly works
3 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Conference Proceedings

    Beyond 'staging a play': text, research-based theatre and futures of Arts Education
  • 2026

    Conference Proceedings

    In Our Sites: Using Research-based Theatre to Play with Space, Place and Histories
  • 2026

    Research grants (other domestic)

    Stages Beyond Cities: Regional-Based Youth, Drama Education and Belonging.
  • 2026

    Conference Proceedings

    Youth Wellbeing Through Cross-Arts Collaboration: Impacts and Insights from an Ongoing Tertiary–School Partnership
  • 2026

    Research grants (other domestic)

    Using Arts Education to Improve School Connectedness for Secondary Students With Disabilities in Flexible Learning Environments.
  • 2025

    Journal article

    JACE Vol. 17 No. 1 (2024): Connections, disconnections, and reconnections: critical contemporary issues in Research-based Theatre. Editors of this special Research-based Theatre edition: A/Prof Richard Sallis, Dr Chris Summers and Dr Prue Wales
    DOI: 10.26188/28637345
  • 2024

    Research grants (other domestic)

    Performing Better: Strengthening an International Collaboration to Investigate the Use of Research-Based Theatre in Pre-Service Teacher Education
Chris Summers

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2024
Distinguished Dissertation Award American Alliance for Theatre and Education
2024
Dyason Fellowship University of Melbourne

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    Lifelong learnings: Pedagogy, research-based theatre and the ongoing performance of teacher / teaching narratives
    DOI: 10.26188/28792148
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Changing Thoroughly? A Playwright / Researcher Reflection on Research-based Theatre and 'Being Frank'
    DOI: 10.26443/mje/rsem.v59i1.10267
  • 2025

    Conference Proceedings

    Cutting lines: research-based theatre, 'Literate' and cutting-together-apart educational research
  • 2025

    Book Chapter

    New Ways of Workshopping: Research-based Theatre and Collaborative Creativity for Wellbeing
    DOI: 10.4324/9781003664123-13
  • 2024

    Conference Proceedings

    Hidden, Proud, Thriving: Research-based Theatre & LGBTQIA Stories
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Show Me the Workings: playwriting, data, ethics and artistry in research-based theatre

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