dr. meg mumford
is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies in the School of the Arts and Media at UNSW Sydney. She has teaching and research expertise in socially engaged performance, and theatre’s capacities for engaging with social inequity and complex cultural identities. Two of her book publications have investigated how contemporary theatres of the real, including innovative interview-based documentary performance, offer fresh ways of perceiving unfamiliar people through the strategy of having everyday people present aspects of their own lives on stage.
More recently she has collaborated with Dr Janet Gibson on research and practice in the fields of creative storytelling and verbatim theatre within dementia care.
To date her activities in the realm of care aesthetics have included certification as a Time Slips Creative Storytelling facilitator and associated volunteer activities in a Randwick residential aged facility. Meg has also co-founded and co-convened the Performance Health and Creative Care working group affiliated with the Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies.
Currently Meg is completing a Diploma in Library and Information Services at TAFE NSW (Ultimo) and working as a volunteer at the State Library of NSW with the goal of working as an outreach community events manager within the public library sector.