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Annouchka Bayley

Position/Status

Assistant Professor 

E-mail Address

acb218@cam.ac.uk

Phone

+ 44 (0)1223

Qualifications

  • BA Hons, SOAS.
  • MRes, Warwick
  • PhD, Warwick

Membership of Professional Bodies/Associations

  • Senior Fellow Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
  • Fellow of Darwin College

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Profile

Annouchka is the Chair of the Arts and Creativities Research Group and former Director and designer of the Arts, Creativities and Education MPhil programme (2021-24).  She has also deisgned the and led the Doctoral Reserach Training Programme at the Faculty. 

Annouchka’s work situates artistic research, posthuman and new materialist philosophies and post-qualitative methodologies, within higher education pedagogical development that seek to find urgent modes of response to 21st century issues.

She attained her PhD at Warwick University and previously trained in the Jacques Lecoq method of theatre, going on to teach at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and becoming an Emerging Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Previously, she has held positions at both the Royal College of Art and King’s College London.

Please see her website for further details of practice, publications, and projects: annouchkabayley.co.uk


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Research Topics

  • Artistic research, practice-based and practice-as-research
  • New Materialisms and Posthuman education development
  • New writing, devising and performance in education
  • Affect, sense and body in the entanglement of onto-epistemologies
  • Environmental, ecological and (non)anthropocenic considerations of pedagogy
  • Fictioning and mythopoesis
  • Decolonial epistemologies for education
  • Posthuman technologies for education (considering virtual and augmented realities)
  • Postqualitative research practice for higher education
  • Interrogating multi/inter/trans-disciplinarities for educational development

Prospective PhD Applications

I am closed to further applications for 2024-25


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Teaching

  • Postgraduate
    • Arts, Creativities and Education MPhil
    • Pathways to Research Doctoral Training Programme
    • Research Methods

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Publications

Novel:

Bayley, A. (2023) The Blood Countess. Leicester: Troubador Press

Monograph:

Bayley, A. (2018) Posthuman Pedagogy in Practice: Arts based approaches for developing participatory futures. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

 

Edited Book:

Bayley, A. and Chan, J.J (2023) Diffracting New Materialisms: Emerging methods for Artistic Research.  Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

 

Taylor, C and Bayley, A (2019) Posthumanism and Higher Education. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

 

Guest Edited Journals:

 

Bayley, A. (2020) On Diffraction.  Performance Research 25.6.

 

Bayley, A and Taylor, C (2018) Posthuman Pedagogy. Parallax 88.

 

Chapters in Edited Books:

 

 

Bayley, A and Chan, J (2023) Entanglements and the Many-Worlded Doing of Research-Based Practice, Practice-Based Research, Practice-as-Research, and Postqualitative Inquiry in the Academy. In, Diffracting New Materialisms: Emerging methods for Artistic Research.  Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

 

Bayley, A and Wiltshire, H. (2023) In/Visible Relations: Feminist New Materialisms for (Post)Pandemic Arts Pedagogies. In, Diffracting New Materialisms: Emerging methods for Artistic Research.  Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

 

 

Bayley, A (2022) The Heart of Research.  Eds Burnard, P. et al. Doing Rebellious Research: Performing Difference in and beyond the Academy.  Leiden: Brill Publishers.

 

Bayley, A (2022) Ghosts in the Machine: Re-imagining the digital as a new form of materiality for postpandemic education.  Eds. Carrigan, M and Robertson, S.  The Post-pandemic University. Abingdon: Routledge.

 

Bayley, A (2022) Digital & Decolonial Diffractions of Race and Materiality for (Post)Pandemic Education. Eds. Flynn, S and Marotta, M. Critical Pedagogy: Teaching for Racial Inclusion in the Digital Age London: Abingdon: Routledge

 

 

Bayley, A (2019) How Did We Become Human in the First Place?: Entanglements of Posthumanism and Critical Pedagogy for the 21st Century.  In Eds. Taylor, C. A and Bayley, A.  Posthumanism and Education.  Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

 

Bayley, A (2015) Troubling Critical Management Studies with Theatre and Performance Practice: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Curriculum Design in ed. Perselli, V. Education, Theory and Global Change: Interdisciplinary perspectives on the role of theory in doctoral research. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

 

Bayley, A. (2013) On (Dis)locating the Trans-cultural through Performance: A Practice-as-research investigation into Dual heritage experience in the UK in ed. Munro, J. Spaces of Dislocation. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press.

 

Articles in Journals:

 

Bayley, A (2023) The End of the Séance: Masters Tools and Modes of Bodily Practices. In eds. Thorpe, H and Newman, J. Cutting Together-Apart the Special Issue: Diffracting Knowledge through Movement, Aesthetics, and Affective Respondings, Critical Studies <-> Critical Methodologies.

 

Thorpe, H, Newman, J, Bayley, A, Zarabadi, S, Pavlidis, A, Rosiek, J, Nichols, E, Markkula, PAdkins-Cartee, M. (2023) Diffractive Respondings and Cutting Together-Apart: Toward More-Than-Human Academic Community. In Cutting Together-Apart the Special Issue: Diffracting Knowledge through Movement, Aesthetics, and Affective Respondings, Critical Studies <-> Critical Methodologies.

 

Bayley, A (2020) Diffraction for Performance Research: A New Materialist Approach to Theory/Practice. Ed. Bayley, A. Performance Research vol 25.6.

 

Bayley, A (2020) Stranger Things, Secret Cinema and the Transmateriality of Touch.  Performance Research vol 25.6.

 

Bayley, A (2019) Anthropocenic Wreckages:Diffracting Bodies that Haunt Across Time.  Performance Research Vol. 24.5.

 

Bayley, A. (2018) Posthumanism, Decoloniality and Pedagogy. In eds. Bayley, A. and Taylor, C. A. parallax 88.

 

Bayley, A. (2016) Transforming Higher Education: Towards posthumanists strategies of teaching and learning in eds. Allsopp , R and Hiltbrunner, M. Performance Research 21.6.

 

Bayley, A. (2013) Elemental Journeys: A domestic ice-cube’s journey to transformation in ed. Gough, R. Performance Research 18.6

 

Annouchka Bayley

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