Gareth Osborne

Postgraduate researcher in immersive storytelling
United Kingdom (citizenship)
research interests: children’s literature, reading, immersive theatre, collaborative learning, children’s literature, reading, immersive theatre, collaborative learning, immersive theatre, children's literature, transmedia storytelling, action research, project-based learning, narrative-driven learning, practice-based research, reading
affiliation: University of Bristol
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Gareth is a children’s author, teacher and postgraduate researcher in immersive storytelling. He has twenty years' experience using fiction, creative writing and drama to engage young people in the classroom and has worked as a content developer for Pearson Education’s digital ActiveLearn platform. His novels for children have won the Bath Children’s Novel award and been longlisted for the Times Chicken House Prize. He researches how theatre and reading engagement can be blended for children in ways that bridge their public and private spheres, giving them the tools to cocreate their own sustained and transformative social fictions. He is based at the University of Bristol (Theatre Department), co-supervised at Bath Spa University (Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries) and Cardiff University (School of English, Communication and Philosophy), funded by the South West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership.

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  • The application of creative practice as a means of disrupting or re-defining the dynamics of power in, with or for different communities. (2022) author(s): Sabrin Hasbun, Gareth Osborne, Rachel Carney, Julika Gittner, Catherine Cartwright, agnes villette, Harry Matthews published in: Journal for Artistic Research
    In this exposition, seven research practitioners investigate how creative practice can be applied as a form of knowledge production in order to disrupt or re-define the dynamics of power in a range of different contexts. These applications of creative practice take varied and complex forms, often transferring creativity from the practitioner-researcher to their participants, increasing participant agency or re-defining existing hierarchies, as they form, empower, and enlighten real and conceptual communities. This collaborative exposition has been developed through presentations and discussions over the course of two years. Although each researcher applies different methodologies to their individual projects, our work as a group followed a pattern of creative practice, reflection, and reformulation, as we responded to each other’s research, creating a research community of our own. We want to emphasize that creative practice can not only disrupt or re-define the dynamics of power in a range of different contexts, but that it can do this in an infinite number of ways. In this variety and adaptability lies the potential of creative research.
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