Alison Jeffers

Alison is investigating the role(s) and participation of water in immigration performances and art installations.

Alison Jeffers

Senior Lecturer in Applied Theatre and Contemporary Performance 

University of Manchester

Alison Jeffers is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Theatre and Contemporary Performance at the University of Manchester, UK. She has researched and written widely on the subject of theatre and migration focusing on applied theatre and participatory arts practices with groups of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK. Her monograph Refugees, Theatre and Crisis: Performing Global Identities was published in 2012. Her most recent research investigates the display of empty clothing gathered from the beaches of Lesbos in Greece.

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