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Based on a six-year ethnographic research study taking place with teachers, artists, community leaders, and young people globally, and taking its lead from the following provocation —can performance become a site for new imaginaries for socio-ecological justice? —this book examines how artful engagement through drama pedagogies can open up more collective, critical, and hopeful forms of thinking and being.
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Professor Kathleen Gallagher is receiving new accolades over her collaborative work Hope in a Collapsing World.
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Professor Kathleen Gallagher, whose research has aimed to make an impact on our understanding of youth and social inequality, has released a new book.
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On February 24, 2025, the Toronto team hosted a local book launch. Enjoy some of the author talks and pictures from the day!
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In this article, Dr. Kathleen Gallagher, Ashleigh Allen, and Dr. Christine Balt examine how a virtual, speculative fiction writing and performance workshop nurtured a deeply situated yet expansive aesthetics in which youth can imagine more hopeful futures in their worlds.
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Join Prof. Kathleen Gallagher (CDTPS/University of Toronto), Prof. James Thompson (University of Manchester) and their postdoctoral research teams for a panel that will explore how the arts can be used as critical practices for every thriving in cities navigating COVID, the climate emergency, and the vast inequities of our age.
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Dr. Kathleen Gallagher and Dr. Christine Balt interviewed by @InnovationCA for an article about the team’s ethnographic and creative research projects, past and current; finding hope and deep learning in the drama classroom.
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Congratulations to CDTPS Director and School of Cities affiliate, Professor Kathleen Gallagher, and her Postdoctoral student, Christine Balt, who have just won a Postdoctoral Fellowship Award for research and research dissemination from the School of Cities for the 2023/24 academic year.
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Andrew Kushnir's new article is an invitation to consider the near-absence of Ukrainian stories on Canadian stages in the year since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began.
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Dr. Kathleen Gallagher and Andrew Kushnir join Dr. Michael Anderson from the CREATE Centre at the University of Sydney to discuss the hybrid format of ethnographic study and playwriting as a means of mobilizing theatre to build ways of working with young people in the language of performance as they seek to communicate their worries, fears, and dreams to a global network of researchers and a wider public.
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Moving the Centre explores the work of two theatre-makers who simultaneously dare, fumble, and persist in bringing audiences into a space where complicity, authority, and authentic listening are met anew.
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In this article, Dr. Kathleen Gallagher, with Christine Balt, Nancy Cardwell & Lindsay Valve, consider the social role of collaborative ethnographic research amid our current intersecting social, political and ecological crises. A “metho-pedagogical” framework is mobilized to consider how drama is put to work at a time of climate emergency and pandemic.
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