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: 10.26188/286373452024
Research grants (other domestic)
Performing Better: Strengthening an International Collaboration to Investigate the Use of Research-Based Theatre in Pre-Service Teacher Education
RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS
2025
Journal article
Lifelong learnings: Pedagogy, research-based theatre and the ongoing performance of teacher / teaching narratives
DOI: 10.26188/287921482025
Journal article
Changing Thoroughly? A Playwright / Researcher Reflection on Research-based Theatre and 'Being Frank'
DOI: 10.26443/mje/rsem.v59i1.102672025
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: 10.4324/9781003664123-132024
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