Taru – Tampere University Research Centre for Communication Sciences – is home to the newly established research group Boundaries of Performing, which studies performing arts from a variety of perspectives. The group provides a research community for researchers at every career stage – doctoral, post-doctoral and senior researchers alike – whose research is informed by a vital connection to performing arts practices and interdisciplinary collaboration.
The group’s approaches currently include artistic research, art research, art and artist pedagogies, and applied performing arts research. The focus is on both human and non-human performers, contemporary forms of performing, actor´s dramaturgy, and the social and technological dimensions of performing arts.
Doctoral eduction is organised at the Doctoral Programme in Media, Communication and Performing Arts (DPMCP), where the application process takes place twice a year, in April and in October. The researcher is required to finance their own doctoral studies, and we will do our best to help them in finding funding. When applying for postgraduate studies, the application process should be started – and the prospective supervisors contacted – well in advance, no later than six months before the application deadline.
If you are interested in research in the field of performing and performance, please contact the head of the research team, Professor Esa Kirkkopelto (Theatre Arts, Artistic Research) esa.kirkkopelto@tuni.fi and/or Professor Pauliina Hulkko (Theatre Arts, Acting Program) pauliina.hulkko@tuni.fi.