{"id":1328,"date":"2015-11-20T13:48:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T00:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2015-11-20T13:48:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T00:48:59","slug":"nuts-nz-issue-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/2015\/11\/20\/nuts-nz-issue-8\/","title":{"rendered":"NUTS NZ Issue 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editorial<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Welcome to the eighth\u00a0edition of\u00a0NUTS NZ\u00a0<\/strong>– the Newsletter for University Theatre Studies New Zealand. The purpose of the newsletter is to help us\u00a0communicate more effectively as a community of scholars interested in Theatre and Performance.<\/p>\n

The meeting of the NZ Universities Committee for Theatre\/Performance Research was held at University of\u00a0Auckland on \u00a0Monday 9 November 2015. One of the issues that was discussed is the status of creative outputs as part of research, particularly given the approaching PBRF exercise and the challenges we face as a community in how performance research is evaluated. Several members had recently experienced an internal\u00a0institutional review of research and it was noted that while Universities acknowledge the work and value of creative outputs there is still an undermining of the value of this work in regards to the PBRF. As one member explained, its difficult to find time to write PBRF articles when\u00a0much of our time\u00a0might be taken up juggling teaching and directing or producing theatre productions. Although productions might count internally within universities as valid and justifiable research\u00a0\u2013\u00a0some internal reviews conducted at Universities in NZ struggled to find ways to\u00a0account for these creative outputs as part of the PBRF exercise. This\u00a0seemed to highlight a suggestion made by Sharon Mazer at a\u00a0previous meeting that was about encouraging us as a community to make sure we attend each other\u2019s creative work and write reviews or peer evaluations that might help to\u00a0critically articulate and place such work as original contributions to knowledge. We also discussed how different institutions might manage payment to individual academics who might be involved in different\u00a0creative projects\u00a0\u2018outside\u2019 the university. The next meeting of the NZ Universities Committee for Theatre\/Performance Research\u00a0will be hosted by the University of Otago next year.<\/p>\n

This is the final edition of NUTS NZ for 2015 and it has been interesting keeping up-to-date with what our various theatre programmes are doing over the year. If you have also found the newsletter\u00a0informative\u00a0and worthwhile, please do take the initiative to ensure your colleagues, postgrad students, and administrators are aware of NUTS and the dates for submission of news stories and items. We are glad to report that we will be back again next year. We plan to circulate our ninth\u00a0issue of NUTS NZ in mid-March 2016, and we will need items of news by 26 February<\/strong>. As always, submissions should be sent to the NUTS NZ editor Jane Marshall:\u00a0\u00a0j.g.marshall@massey.ac.nz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Issue 9<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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26 February 2016<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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11 March 2016<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Issue 10<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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29 April\u00a02016<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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29\u00a0July 2016<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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12 August 2016<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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28\u00a0October 2016<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Kind regards,<\/p>\n

NUTS NZ editors: Jane Marshall and Rand Hazou.<\/p>\n

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NUTS\u00a0People<\/h1>\n

In each edition of NUTS NZ we profile\u00a0an academic and a postgraduate student to show case \u201cour people\u201d and their current research\/interests. In this issue we have Dr Rand Hazou and PhD Candidate Ammar Almaani, both from Massey University. \u00a0As always, NUTS NZ asked each of them to answer the following questions:<\/p>\n