Organisational Statement
TaPRA is a new British research association founded in order to foster and sustain research in all theatre, performance and related areas in British and Irish Universities and allied institutions.
This initiative is, in part, a response to the competitive, and divisive, climate that has developed incrementally over the past decade within British theatre research as a result of the RAE and other government policies.
TaPRA has also been set up in recognition of the fact that in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, in not having a 'local' umbrella forum dedicated exclusively to research, we have not been able to reap the intellectual and other benefits that such association provides, nor been able to facilitate regular scholarly exchanges between the research communities.
Above all this initiative is based in a positive desire to meet with fellow 'local' scholars in the field and exchange research, challenges, questions and anxieties, and to explore synergies and diversities.
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