Dr Adelle Hulsmeier

I teach BA (Hons) Performing Arts and BA (Hons) Screen Performance.

I am currently module leader for:

• Acting for Screen 1
• From Page to Stage*
• Cabaret
• TV Drama Projects**
• Multi-Platform Performance

I also teach:

• Drama for Live TV 1
• Drama for Live TV 2
• Acting for Screen 2
  
  *Since 2015 I have actively strengthened partnership collaborations, shaping and managing a partnership between the University and Live Theatre, Newcastle. This coincides with the planning and delivery of a range of modules within Performing Arts, and particularly within the Stage Two Module From Page to Stage. The aims of the partnership are to; afford relationships with theatre members and increase their capacity and capability in delivering module content to the students, produce the student body with networking opportunities with a range of professionals working in the industry, and to give the students access to the operational workings of a contemporary, professional theatre and its programme. This offers a more vocational focus to student learning and these encounters are aimed to offer confidence and identify pathways into the creative industries. 

** Since 2013 I introduced and continue to manage the collaborative relationship with Northumbria Police, affording drama and film production students, particularly those taking the module TV Drama Projects, the opportunity to produce and act in films that increase awareness of complex category serious crime. 

• Shakespeare
• Applied theatre
• Performance
• Screen performance
• Drama education
• Theatre for social change 

• 2020: NTFS
  Awarded National Teaching Fellowship), Advance HE 
• 2019: CATE
  Awarded Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence), Advance HE
• 2019: SFHEA
  Achieved Senior Fellowship Higher Education), Advance HE

Embedding Employability on the Curriculum

In a joint research project with Hayley Jenkins, our project collates a 'live' exchange of enterprising innovations currently embedded in curricula across our faculty as a means of articulating good practice and enhancing the scope for more successful collaborative approaches to pedagogical practice and entrepreneurship education. Our project:

• Shares practical guidance to support colleagues in embedding enterprise within the curriculum
• Provides a platform to share good practice and navigate challenges in embedding enterprise in the curriculum
• Enhances embedded industrial practices, collaborations, and innovations.

Participatory Practice

1) Partnership with Northumbria Police
I manage the collaboration with Northumbria Police, and sustain and nurture the partnership which affords performance and film production students the opportunity to produce films that increase awareness of complex category serious crime. Invaluable as a training resource for the police and invested partners from counselling services, law, healthcare, secondary, tertiary, and Higher Education*, these films are integrated into education and training. All collaborate with our Level 6 undergraduates. To date, over 30 films have been produced by approximately 600 students. All films have addressed key issues of serious crime including the capacity to consent, sexual exploitation, domestic violence, cyber-safety, modern-day slavery, male rape, county lines, policing during covid, and Peer on Peer abuse.

*Changing Lives, Sunderland Counsellors, Edge North East, SARC, Slater & Gordon, Association of Chief Police Officers, Healthcare Professionals (e.g. GPs, GUM services, University Wellbeing Departments, Accident and Emergency Departments), and Voluntary Organisations.

2) Seascapes: Reading the Rocks
I am the project manager, producer, and coordinator for Sea Ai project@ Reading the Rocks. This project is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. This is a multi-media-based project based around and informed by interviews with communities who are living around and/or influenced by Blast Beach, Seaham. Over a six-month period, varying individuals will be interviewed to create a documentary that highlights the influence of the coast upon the people who live and are influenced by it. Geologists, East Durham Artist's Network (EDAN), miners, and local community members will be interviewed about the coast and its meaning and influence on their work, practice, and everyday lives. This work will be screened at EDAN's Maglime exhibition and again as part of Seaham Carnival.

3) Shakespeare and Applied Theatre
My research into Shakespeare within Applied Theatre settings explores the challenges faced when combining Shakespeare’s plays for purposes of transformation. It explores how applied theatre may embody strains between the instrumental and the transformative. It undertakes a historical reading of a range of Shakespeare’s works in order to demonstrate the importance of the cultural, political, and historical contexts of Shakespeare’s plays. It explores the intentions of applied theatre within three salient community settings (prison, disability, and therapy) exploring how Shakespeare’s work is used within these settings and why. All aspects are explored in order to demonstrate how the challenge of making Shakespeare’s plays work in an applied theatre setting is more complex than it may at first appear.

My research outputs are relevant to the areas of drama for social change and action-based research.

• Shakespeare
• Applied theatre
• Performance
• Screen performance
• Drama education
• Live theatre
• Theatre for social change 
• Employability on the curriculum 

Professional Memberships:

• Senior Fellow, Association of Higher Education
• National Teaching Fellow, Association of Higher Education
• DisCrim Network: Vulnerability and Criminal Justice Network
• SCUDD: Standing Conference for Drama Departments

In the media:

• Increasing awareness of serious crimes through drama and film making
• Blog - Shining a spotlight on crime