Membership of Professional Bodies, Subject Associations and the HEA

Delegate to Standing Conference of University Drama Departments (from 1994) - member of Information Technology sub-committee 1996 - 2002

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Curriculum vitae for Dr John Bennett

Current Primary Role at Hope

Senior Lecturer

Title of Current Post

Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies (Full-time)

Employment History

Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies Liverpool Hope University - current

Acting Head of Drama and Theatre Studies, Liverpool Hope University 1999-2000

Head of Drama and Theatre Studies, Queen Mary's Sixth Form College, Basingstoke, 1989 - 1990

Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies, Queen Mary's Sixth Form College, Basingstoke, 1982 - 1989

Academic and Professional Qualifications

Ph.D. University of Reading, submitted October 2004 awaiting viva voce

M.A. Creative Writing (Distinction) University of Lancaster 1992

P.G.C.E. Drama and English (Distinction) University of Leeds, Bretton Hall 1982

B.A. (Hons) II/ii Drama, University of Leeds, Bretton Hall 1979

Professional Experience, Activities and Achievements

Appointments as an External Examiner

University College, Warrington, Performing Arts Department, 1998 – 2002

Trinity College, Carmarthen, 2006 –

Appointments as a QAA Reviewer, a QAA Auditor & an OFSTED Assessor

Subject Specialist Reviewer 1996 - 1998 and 2002 to current

Consultancy or Advisory Work

Internal quality assurance event for Drama and Theatre Studies at Bolton Institute, 1999

Quinquennial subject review at Trinity College, Carmarthen, 2006

John Bennett

John Bennett graduated from Bretton Hall, University of Leeds in 1979 with an honours degree in Drama. He returned to Bretton to complete a PGCE in Drama and English (with distinction) in 1981-82. Appointed to Liverpool Hope in 1990, John then graduated, with distinction, in Creative Writing from the University of Lancaster in 1993. He has recently been awarded a PhD from the University of Reading for his thesis, A Good Night Out?: The Popular Theatre of John Godber.
John Bennett began his academic career at Liverpool Hope lecturing in Technical Theatre and now specialises in contemporary popular theatre and is Module Leader for the first year Explorations in Theatre course, second year Theatre Praxis course and (subject to validation) a third year module in Popular and Mainstream Theatre; he has also taught Playwriting and Devising and delivered lectures for the M.A. in Creative Practice. John is on the register of practioners of the Higher Education Academy.
His expertise in John Godber was a factor in the appointment of Godber as visiting professor of Contemporary Theatre at the university and he has designed and maintains the official John Godber website, www.johngodber.co.uk. John has lectured on various aspects of John Godber’s work in London, Krakow, New York and Angers and will be giving a paper on Godber’s theatrical use of sport at the First International Sporting Cultures Conference at Liverpool John Moore’s University 16-17 May 2006.

John Bennett research since 2001

Publications and Papers

Book Chapters

‘Manners, Mores and Musicality: An Interview with Willy Russell’ in Writing Liverpool: Essays and Interviews ed. Michael Murphy and Deryn Rees-Jones (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007

Introduction to John Godber Plays 3 ( London: Methuen, 2003)

'Amen and All That Cal: The first performance of a Clockwork Orange' in Avatars of a Clockwork Orange ( Angers: University of Angers, 2003)

'Bouncer Teacher Doctor: The role of the outsider and gentrification in the Plays of John Godber' in The Professions in Contemporary British Drama ed. Daniel Meyer-Dinkgraffe ( Bristol: Intellect, 2001)

Refereed Journal Articles

‘Three Careful Owners: Divergent methodologies and shifting critical perceptions of the Hull Truck Theatre Company’ in Studies in Theatre and Performance Vol 26, No 3, pp. 273 – 288.

Dictionary Articles

Entry on John Godber in The Dictionary of Contemporary Biography ed. John Bull ( New York: Buccoli-Clarke-Layman, 2001)

Other

Play Chronology in John Godber Plays 1, 2 and 3. ( Methuen)