Dr Natalie Raven

Education

Ph.D Performance Studies: University of Plymouth, 2020

MA Drama: De Montfort University, 2012

Postgraduate Certificate in Learning & Teaching in Higher Education (distinction): Plymouth Marjon University, 2022

BA English and Drama (first class): De Montfort University, 2008

Professional Development in Higher Education

Research Team Leadership: Advance HE, 2023

Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy: Advance HE, 2022

Professional Development for External Examiners: Advance HE, 2021

Professional Development in Academic Practice: University of Plymouth, 2016

Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy: Advance HE, 2016

2025-2026: Lecturer BA Outdoor Adventure Education

2024-2025: Lecturer BA Special Educational Needs & Disability Studies; BA Primary Education

2023-2024: Lecturer BA Acting; BA Musical Theatre

2022-2023: Lecturer BA Acting; BA Musical Theatre

2021-2022: Lecturer BA Acting; BA Musical Theatre; BA Journalism

2020- 2021: Senior Lecturer & Programme Leader, BA Acting; BA Musical Theatre & BA Performing Arts in Education. Lecturer BA Journalism

2019-2020: Skills Development (yoga specialism): BA Acting; BA Musical Theatre; BA Performing Arts in Education

Scholarly Presentation

• (2022) En Semblance [digital AV] for TaPRA: Theatre and Performance Research Association, University of Leeds - with Siobhan Bauer
• (2022) Pop Music Videos and Kinship Midst Covid for GRiT: Graduate Research in Theatre group at Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, Birckbeck University of London - with Dagmar Schwitzgebel
• (2021) Site-responsive attunement and DIY film making as method of collaborative art making and deepening kinship for TaPRA conference, Liverpool Hope University - with Judy Preston
• (2020) Mentor & Mentee; A Conversation about PhD Mentoring for Wellbeing for Advance HE Student Retention and Success Symposium - with Dr. Lucy Spowart
• (2020) Art History, Adornment, and Agency in The Ascension of Esther for Critical Costume, Oslo National Academy of the Arts - with Dagmar Schwitzgebel
• (2020) Co-Watching Orlando: A presentation of practice research in the processes of becoming for PEPTalks University of Plymouth - with Dr. Davina Kirkpatrick
• (2019) 'Pecking Order: The Observation Nest: Resisting the Regulations of Site/Space' for TATE Modern, London UK - with dagmar Schwitzgebel
• (2019) Making at Maker Heights - Artistic Research and Development Documentation [digital AV] for Tapra Gallery, University of Exeter
• (2019) Staging Bodies in Situ: Artistic Responses to Working with/in Landscape TaPRA conference, University of Exeter
• (2019) Pregnancy< >Abortion: Standing in the Chasm at The Lived Female Body in Performance conference, University of Leeds 
• (2018) Piercing Poetics of the Body for PEPTalks, University of Plymouth
• (2017) Between Action and Response; la sainte trinite for TaPRA conference, University of Salford 
• (2017) Magic, Witchcraft, Ritual: Getting Down to Earth for On The Moors conference, University of Plymouth
• (2017) Artist Academia and the Aldi Carrier Bag for Buzzcut Festival, Glasgow UK
• (2017) la sainte trinité, unveiled for PEPTalks, University of Plymouth
• (2016) sa réécriture [re-writing her] for Borderlines conference, De Montfort University
• (2015) Spill 2014: Adorning the Body for Critical Costume conference, Aalto University Finland
• (2015) Interpreting Ono for PEPTalks, University of Plymouth

Performance, Collection, and Exhibition

• (2020) (I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalene [digital AV] for The Box Covid-19 Emergency Commission - with Dagmar Schwitzgebel and Dr. Núria Bonet
• (2019) The Ascension of Esther [live performance] at St Saviours Hall, Plymouth UK - with Dagmar Schwitzgebel
• (2019) Making at Maker Heights - Artistic Research and Development Documentation [digital AV] at TaPRA Gallery, University of Exeter
• (2019) Womxn, Textile, Landscape - steadfast on the Rame Peninsular [digital image on mount board] at TaPRA Gallery, University of Exeter
• (2017) Protruding the Veil [live performance], developed as part of Approaches to Embodied Islam workshop for LADA DIY 14, at TATE Britain, London UK 
• (2017) The Henry Moore Workout [live performance], KOKO, London - with Paul Kindersley
• (2017) la sainte trinité [digital AV] entered into Live Art Development Agency (LADA) archival collection, London UK - with Dagmar Schwitzgebel 
• (2017) Leviathan. Dir. Shezad Dawood [feature film], Venice Biennial, IT
• (2017) emending eve  [9 photographic prints in series] exhibited at Elberson Fine Arts Center, USA. Artworks produced in collaboration - with Kimberly Varnadoe
• (2017) Buckfast Bible Drinking [participatory performance] for Buzzcut festival, Glasgow UK - with Dagmar Schwitzgebel
• (2016 ) The Ties That Bind & Veiled Visions [perfomance-to-camera digital images] at Black Mountain School, NC USA
• (2016) la sainte trinité [live performance] for SPILL International Festival of Performance, Ipswitch UK - with Dagmar Schwitzgebel
• (2016) Sackcloth and Ashes [live performance] for Tempting Failure, London UK - with Dagmar Schwitzgebel
• (2016) Sa Réécriture [re-writing her]  [live performance] for Borderlines Conference, De Montfort University Leicester
• (2016) Tarot [1:1 performance] at The Duke of Cornwall Hotel, Plymouth UK
• (2015) body-cloth [live performance] at University of Plymouth, UK
• (2015) Easy Rider [live performance] for Little Wolf Parade, Nottingham UK
• (2012) la femme sale [live performance] for World Event Young Artists, Nottingham UK
• 2012) Seven Pounds of Flesh [performance-to-camera] for World Event Young Artists, Nottingham UK
• (2011) Other Women [live performance] for circuit Festival of Performance, De Montfort University - with Joanna Partridge
• (2011) Opening Hours [performance participant with Zoo Indigo] for Nottingham European Arts and Theatre Festival
• (2010) Greek and East by Steven Berkoff [assistant director to Paul Kerryson], Curve Theatre, Leicester
• (2010) Simon Emmerson at 60 [Dir. Leigh Landy, live performance] with Dirty Electronics Ensemble
• (2009) Home[less] [site-specific performance-to-camera], Queen Street, Toronto Canada

• (2024) 'Approaching actor training in nature' for Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 15(3), 559–573. https://doi.org/10.1080/19443927.2024.2411194
• (2020) Bodycloth in Performance Art [PhD thesis], University of Plymouth
• (2018) ‘When does it Start?' for On Time: A SPILL Reader, Ipswich: Paccitti Company Publishing
• (2018) 'Between Material and the Body: How Drapery Performs' in Materials of Resistance. Plymouth: Clare Thornton Publishing 
• (2016) 'Tempting Failure for Total Theatre Review' in The Live Art Almanac Volume 4. London: LADA and Oberon Books 
• (2015) ‘Spill Geist: An Ode to (the) Others’ for Spill International Festival of Performance
• (2015) ‘Spill Stains: No where // Now Here (The Palimpsest of FK Alexander and Lydia Lunch)’ for Spill Festival of Performance
• (2014) ‘Reflections: ON BOUNDARIES’ for Spill International Festival of Performance
• (2014) ‘Reflections: ON RETREAT’ for Spill International Festival of Performance
• (2009) ‘Home(less)’ [article] in SNAP! (Downtown Toronto Edition), CA. 

The British Academy ECR Network

Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA)

External Examiner (2025 - present), BA Acting, De Montfort University Leicester

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