Dr Stephen Hornby's Qualifications (6)

B.A. Hons. Drama + Theatre Studies
Bachelor's Degree

Status	Complete
Part Time	No
Years	1987 - 1991
Project Description	Courses completed include: oDirecting (full year vocational specialism) oDrama & Society in the Age of Shakespeare oPost-War British Theatre oModern European Theatre oFunding & Organisation of the British Theatre oActing & Performance oStage Design & Technology oPlaywriting oWomen in Theatre oThe Black Experience of Living in Britain oAn Introduction to Narrative Cinema
Awarding Institution	University of Kent

M.A. Social Work
Master's Degree

Status	Complete
Years	1994 - 1996
Project Title	Challenging Masculinity in the Supervision of Male Offenders
Project Description	•Courses completed included: oAnti-Oppressive Practice oHuman Growth & Behaviour oSocial Work & Society oPerson-centered Counselling and Groupwork oPractical Social Casework and Groupwork
Awarding Institution	University of East Anglia

M.St. Criminology, Penology + Management
Master's Degree

Status	Complete
Part Time	Yes
Years	2005 - 2007
Project Title	Loving Men? An Exploratory Study of Men's Sexual Experience in UK Prisons
Project Description	This study provides the first U.K. body of qualitative data about male consensual prison sex. As a small scale exploratory study, the research simply sets out to discover more about the topic, through the eyes of 18 men who are or have been prisoners. It covers the following research questions: -Does heterosexual men’s sexual behaviour or fantasies change during a period of imprisonment? -Does any of the sexual contact amongst men in prisons have a positive emotional dimension and does it result in relationships? -Do homosexual men make different emotional and sexual adaptations to imprisonment?
Awarding Institution	University of Cambridge

M.A. Playwriting
Master's Degree

Status	Complete
Part Time	No
Years	2014 - 2016
Project Title	Die Diana
Project Description	•Dissertation play "Die Diana" went into production and won the Greater Manchester Fringe Award for Best New Drama •Established and facilitated the Salford Writers’ Lab as a student-led peer facility •Courses completed: oPlaywriting: Professional Context oPlaywriting: The Production Context oWriting Workshops (led by Jo Clifford & Michael Wynne) oLiterary Research Practice
Awarding Institution	- The University of Salford

Postgraduate Certificate - Academic Practice
Postgraduate Certificate

Status	Complete
Part Time	Yes
Years	2021 - 2022
Project Description	A Level Seven 30 credit course in academic practice recognised as an entry qualification to become a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). The course consisted of two modules: - Learning & Teaching in Higher Education - Assessment & Feedback for Learning.
Awarding Institution	- The University of Salford

PhD
Doctor of Philosophy

Status	Complete
Part Time	No
Years	2016 - 2021
Project Title	Writing Intermale Sexuality History Plays
Project Description	My PhD is a practice led research investigation into writing plays for performance from archive. In order to conduct this research, I have written two full-length history plays. Each piece required a detailed engagement with archive materials, existing historiographies and other related secondary material in order to reach a state I am terming “historical literacy”. From that state, an original creative response was then made in the form of playwriting. The thematic focus is on sexual and emotional intimacy between men, a topic which has, in terms of archival records, often been ignored, deliberately left coded, or even destroyed. Subsequent historicisations of the materials have frequently compounded this, mis/interpreting the few extant records with a heteronormative bias. I am exploring the extent to which playwriting can address this and the mechanisms by which it might do so and complementing my own exploration by interviewing six other leading screen and stage writers who have undertaken historical dramatisations about their processes. The researching and writing of the plays acts as a form of inquiry into the dramaturgical, historiographical and expositional strategies involved in such writing. This was being documented, forming a record of the methodological approaches taken to such a task, and the plays themselves are evaluated as forms of historiographical enquiry. As approaches and techniques for archive-based creative writing emerge, I suggest a nomenclature for them. I am also proposing specific strategies for dealing with the absent, coded, and/or nullified record of intermale sexuality. There are academic accounts of history plays featuring intermale sexuality, vocational texts on playwriting, and a growing body of work on performing heritage, the use and ethics of docudrama and queer dramaturgies. However, little addresses the history playwriting process methodologically and the detailed mechanics and historiographical implications of the playwright’s use of archive. I review the fields of narrative history, experiential archaeology and biography for applicable paradigms, and test my methodology against interviews with other writers. My aims are to provide insight into writing from archive generally, to illuminate the specific issues in the representation of intermale sexuality in a contested record of the past and to explore the case for the playwriting process from archive as a form of historiographical enquiry or, at least, as a disruptive challenge to pre-existing historical narratives.
Awarding Institution	- The University of Salford
Director of Studies	Kate Adams
Second Supervisor	Lucia Nigri