Dr Morwenna Carr
Senior Lecturer (Education Academic)

Research area(s)

My academic education research looks at compassion in teaching, the role of community, and co-creation to support academic transition.

My current projects are:

Community of Practice

Working with Dr Meryl Dickinson, Brunel Law School, we are investigating how Communitites of Practice (groups of peoplebound by shared professional practices) can support academic staff across CBASS. We are running a series of sessions and events across the 2021-22 academic year and will be presenting some findings at the Advance HE Teaching & Learning Conference 2022.

Co-Creation Welcome Week

Working with Harvey Moyne, we are improving and developing Welcome Week through co-creation with our undergraduate students. We have had several interns funded for data collection for this project, courtesy of Brunel University London, and are excited to be working alongside student colleagues to consider the new directions of induction in our hybrid-working and learning environment.

In my literary research I am particularly concerned with the representation of disabled and gendered bodies on the seventeenth-century stage, and with the ways in which that representation has solidifed contemporary understandings of socially constructed fixed binary sex and the non-normate body.

Research Interests

Pedagogical: compassion * compassionate spaces in institutions * community * growth of community in large schools * transition * induction *co-creation

Literary: Seventeenth-century drama and prose ∙ Early modern performance studies, including Shakespearean drama ∙ Restoration, including drama and prose ∙ Performance studies, with a particular interest in Practice as Research methodology ∙ Audiences and reception ∙ Women’s writing ∙ Gender studies, particularly queer theory ∙ Disability studies