Professor Matthew Reason

• Professor of Theatre
• School of Performance & Media Production

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Article

Davis, Paige E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0043-9991 and Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2024) Social Prescribing is a bit of a well-kept Secret that’s not meant to be a Secret: Stakeholders’ Perceptions of Social Prescribing for Families with Young Children. Research Square.

Davis, Paige E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0043-9991, Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 and Thain, Miranda (2024) My favourite part was learning different ways to play: qualitatively evaluating a socially prescribed creative play programme. Public Health, 230. pp. 1-5.

Heinemeyer, Catherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6300-5544, Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236, Quatermass, Natalie, Wood, Natalie and Adekola, Olalekan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9747-0583 (2024) Mutual Learning through Participatory Storytelling: Creative Approaches to Climate Education in Secondary Schools. Research in Education, 118 (1). pp. 87-107.

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2022) Inclusive online community arts: COVID and beyond COVID. Cultural Trends, 32 (1). pp. 52-69.

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 and Ward, Charli (2021) Improving, Achieving, Excelling: Developing Inclusive Assessment Processes for a Degree-Level Learning Disability Arts Programme. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 27 (1). pp. 137-146.

Glow, Hilary, Kershaw, Anne and Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2020) Leading or avoiding change: the problem of audience diversification for arts organisations. International Journal of Cultural Policy.

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2019) A Prison Audience: Women Prisoners, Shakespeare and Spectatorship. Cultural Trends, 28 (2-3). pp. 86-102.

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2018) Students as Arts Activists: Insights and analysis from a politically engaged assessment. ArtsPraxis, 5 (2). pp. 2-17.

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2018) Students as Arts Activists: Insights and analysis from a politically engaged assessment. ArtsPraxis, 5 (2). pp. 2-17.

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2017) Representing Soldiers to Soldiers through Dance: Authenticity, Theatricality and Witnessing the Pain of Others. Dance Research Journal, 49 (2). pp. 79-95.

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 and Heinemeyer, Catherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6300-5544 (2016) Storytelling, story-retelling, storyknowing: towards a participatory practice of storytelling. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 21 (4). pp. 558-573.

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2016) Archive, Empathy, Memory: The Resurrection of Joyce Reason. Memory Connection, 2 (1). pp. 89-110.

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236, Jola, Corinne, Kay, Rosie, Reynolds, Dee, Kauppi, Jukka-Pekka, Grobras, Marie-Helene, Tohka, Jussi and Pollcik, Frank (2016) Spectators’ aesthetic experience of sound and movement in dance performance: A transdisciplinary investigation. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 10 (1). pp. 42-55.

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2015) Participations on Participation. Research the “active” theatre audience. Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 12 (1). pp. 271-280.

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2012) Writing the Embodied Experience: Ekphrastic and Creative Writing as Audience Research. Critical Stages, 7.

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2010) ‘Asking the audience: audience research and the experience of theatre’. About performance (10). pp. 15-34.

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 and Reynolds, Dee (2010) Kinesthetic and related Pleasures: Exploring audience responses to watching live dance. Dance Research Journal, 45 (2). pp. 49-75.

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2010) Watching dance, drawing the experience and visual knowledge. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 46 (4). pp. 391-414.

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2008) Thinking Theatre: Enhancing Children’s Theatrical Experiences Through Philosophical Enquiry. Childhood and Philosophy, 4 (7). pp. 115-145.

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2006) Audience. Performance Research, 11 (3). pp. 7-10.

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2006) Young audiences and live theatre, Part 1: methods, participation and memory in audience research. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 26 (2). pp. 129-145.

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2004) Theatre Audiences and Perceptions of ‘Liveness’ in Performance. Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 1 (2).

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2004) Still Moving: The Revelation or Representation of Dance in Still Photography. Dance Research Journal, 35 (2). pp. 43-67.

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2003) Archive or memory?: the detritus of live performance. New theatre quarterly, 19 (1). pp. 82-89.

Book Section

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2022) Playful Research. In: Snyder-Young, Dani and Omasta, Matt, (eds.) Impacting Theatre Audiences: Methods for Studying Change. Routledge

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 and Schuitema, Karian (2021) Theater for Children and Young People. In: Montgomery, Heather, (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies in Childhood Studies. New York, Oxford University Press

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2020) Spectatorship and Diversity: The Role of the Audience in Seeing Difference. In: Water, van de Water, (ed.) Diversity, Representation and Culture in TYA. South Afrtica, ASSITEJ, pp. 1-14

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2020) Where in your body? In: Performance Design 15 Years Celebration. Roskilde, Denmark, Roskilde University, pp. 92-97

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2019) Participatory audiencing and the committed return. In: Kolesch, Doris, Schütz, Theresa and Nikoleit, Sophie, (eds.) Staging spectators in immersive performances: commit yourself! Taylor & Francis

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2018) Ways of Watching: Five Aesthetics of Learning Disability Theatre. In: Hadley, Bree and McDonald, Donna, (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Disability Arts, Culture and Media. Abingdon, Oxford, Routledge, pp. 163-175

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2018) What Makes a Theatre Goer? Habitus, Identity and Interest Development in Adolescent Audiences to Shakespeare. In: Banks, Fiona, (ed.) Shakespeare: Actors and Audience. Bloomsbury

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2017) Drawing. In: Lury, Celia, Clough, Patricia, Chung, Una and Fensham, Rachel, (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Research. Routledge

Grosbras, Marie-Helene, Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236, Tan, Haodan, Kay, Rosie and Pollick, Frank (2017) Subjective and Neurophysiological Perspectives on Emotion Perception from Dance. In: Karkou, Vicky, Oliver, Sue and Lycouris, Sophia, (eds.) The Oxford Handbook for Dance and Wellbeing. Oxford University Press, pp. 57-98

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2016) Conversation and Criticism: Audiences and Unfinished Critical Thinking. In: Radosavljevic, Duska, (ed.) Theatre Criticism: Changing Landscapes. London, Methuen

Jola, Corinne and Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2016) Audiences’ Experience of Proximity and Co-Presence in Live Dance Performance. In: Falletti, Clelia, Sofia, Gabriele and Jacono, Victor, (eds.) Theatre and Cognitive Neuroscience. London, Bloomsbury Methuen

Jola, Corinne and Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2016) Audiences’ Experience of Proximity and Co-Presence in live Dance Performance. In: Theatre and Cognitive Neuroscience. London, Bloomsbury

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236, Reynolds, Dee, Grosbras, Marie-Helene and Pollick, Frank E. (2013) Researching Dance Across Disciplinary Paradigms: A Reflective Discussion of the Watching Dance Project. In: Shaughnessy, Nicola, (ed.) Affective Performance and Cognitive Science. Bloomsbury

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2013) The Longer Experience: Theatre for Young Audiences and Enhancing Engagement. In: Radbourne, Jennifer, Glow, Hilary and Johanson, Katya, (eds.) The Audience Experience: A Critical Response to the Intrinsic Needs of Audiences in the Performing Arts. Intellect

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2012) The Possibility of Theatre for Children. In: Maguire, Tom and Schuitema, Karian, (eds.) Theatre for Young Audiences: A Critical Handbook. Trentham / IOE Press

Monograph

Heinemeyer, Catherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6300-5544, Parks, Judith, Pugh, Vicki, Hurst, Lucy, Williams, Sarah, Odell, Adam ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6855-7214, Adekola, Olalekan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9747-0583, Jagdev, Manjinder, Turner, Helen, Nattress, Clare ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3296-4264, Byrom, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4519-768X, Cunningham, Clare ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3767-7624, Galloway, Morag ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3103-0611, McCaleb, Murphy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9867-9909, Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 and Mason, Linda (2022) Living Lab: Learning at the Junction - REFLECTION REPORT. Project Report. Institute for Social Justice, York St John University, York.

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236, Gibson, Joanne, Wilson, Harriet and Noret, Nathalie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4393-1887 (2021) Theatre Hullabaloo Baby Play Pack Evaluation. Project Report. Institute for Social Justice.

Book

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236, Conner, Lynne, Johanson, Katya and Walmsley, Ben, eds. (2022) Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts. Routledge

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 and Rowe, Nick, eds. (2017) Applied Practice: Evidence and Impact in Theatre, Music and Art. Applied theatre series . London, Bloomsbury Methuen

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 and Lindelof, Anja Molle, eds. (2016) Experiencing liveness in contemporary performance : interdisciplinary perspectives. New York, Routledge

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 and Reynolds, Dee, eds. (2012) Kinesthetic empathy in creative and cultural practices. Intellect

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2010) The young audience: exploring and enhancing children’s experiences of theatre. Trentham Books

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2006) Documentation, disappearance and the representation of live performance. Palgrave MacMillan

Other

Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2020) Creative Doodle Book. Mind the Gap/York St John University, Bradford.