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University of Bedfordshire
Park Square
Luton
Bedfordshire
UK, LU1 3JU
To apply for a research degree, please make sure you fulfill the entry requirements and then complete the online research degree application form and upload your supporting documents.
You should have a good honours degree (2:1 or above) or masters degree or equivalent in the relevant subject area.
International applicants should be aware of our research degree English language requirements
Performance is the presentation of narrative in dramatic form.
At the University of Bedfordshire I work collaboratively with drama teachers Dr Amanda Price and Dr Antje Diedrich, and with dance teacher April Nunes, within the Research School of Guided Reflection and Narrative Inquiry in crafting the presentation of narrative as performance.
Performance is written as social action to engage audience in dialogue towards creating better worlds or easing suffering to both professional and lay audience.
RAW was written as a performance from the narrative I wrote as a reflection on my work as a a holistic therapist alongside one woman through her breast cancer treatment. This work commenced in November 2002 and ceased in 2007.
RAW covers my first two years of this narrative.
It was written as four voices.
RAW is published in Becoming a reflective practitioner [third edition] [2009] Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford.
Climbing walls was written from my reflective journal of working as a holistic therapist with Ann, a woman with breast cancer, following her diagnosis.
The performance covers the first six months of therapy. It is a collaborative venture with Amanda Price and April Nunes as co-performers and directed by Antje Diedrich.
Climbing walls has also been presented as a solo performance by Christopher Johns against a background of his original art.
Climbing walls script will be published in second edition of 'Guided Reflection- late 2009.
Jane's Rap has been written from a revised narrative 'Working with deliberate self-harm patients in A&E'. written by Jane Groom as her post-registration nursing degree dissertation at the University of Bedfordshire supervised by Christopher Johns and published in Guided Reflection: Advancing Practice [2002:169-186][Blackwell Publishing].
It was first 'spontaneously performed' to Faculty at Jewish-Barnes Hospital, Golfarb School of Nursing, St Louis, USA [January 2009].
Professor Colleen Marlin at Centennial College, Toronto was then invited to write a series of empathic poems to give voice to the self-harm patients within the performance.
In addition a series of 'ensos' and 'six word narratives' were painted by Christopher Johns within the power-point background.
Jane's Rap script and revised narrative will be published in guided Reflection [second edition late 2009.
Becoming a transformational leader was written by Christopher Johns, based on the narrative dissertation by Jon-Luc Priest attending the Masters in Leadership programme at the University of Bedfordshire.
Jon Luc's narrative is one of seven similar narratives in 'Becoming a Transformational Leader' [seeking publisher]
This autoethnography was written by Christopher Johns following a visit to his mother at her nursing home the day before she died.
The performance does no set out to reflect what has been learnt from the experience or how the author has been transformed through the experience, but rather to reveal unsatisfactory caring practice as a focus for audience recognition, dialogue and potential social action to change such practice towards creating better worlds.
In this performance Christopher Johns reads his journal sitting in a chair mid-stage against a background of images of his mother from childhood to photos from his sister's mobile phone taken the day before she died.
My mum's death; a caring shame in 'in press' to be published in the Journal of Holistic Nursing.
