Professor Roberta Mock

Roberta Mock is Visiting Professor of Performance Studies in the School of Society and Culture at the University of Plymouth, where she supervises 2 PhD researchers.

Roberta is currently the Executive Dean of the School of Performing and Digital Arts at Royal Holloway University of London. She is the immediate Past Chair of the Theatre & Performance Research Association (TaPRA); and the Principal Investigator for the Transitioning to Sustainable Production across the UK Theatre Sector project (co-commissioned by the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre and Arts Council England). In addition to a commitment to exploring and celebrating "green" theatre practices, her research – which takes the form of both performance and writing – tends to focus on gender, sexuality and bodies, with a specific interest in live art and stand up comedy by Jewish women. She is the author or editor of five books.

18 PhDs, 5 MPhils and 3 ResMs, including as Director of Studies at the University of Plymouth: 'Solo Auto/biographical Theatre: Towards a process of self- transformation' (Dr Mo Cohen, 2022); 'Playing, Painting, Personas' (Dr Robyn Thomas, 2022); 'Fan Practices & Producerly Art making' (Dr Beth Richards, 2020); 'Bodycloth in Performance Art' (Dr Natalie Raven, 2020); 'Meeting the Archive in an Interdisciplinary Arts Practice' (Dr Steven Paige, 2019); 'FEMEN and the performance of topless protest' (Leah Dungay, 2018); 'Exploring Privilege through the Creation and Live/Digital Performance of an Alter Ego' (Gemma Chatwin, 2018); 'Performing LGBT Pride in Plymouth, 1950-2012' (Dr Alan Butler, 2016); 'Challenging Fragmentation: Overcoming the Subject-Object Divide through the Integration of Art-making and Material Culture Studies' (Dr Andrew Cope, 2014); 'Toward a Female Clown Practice: Myth, Archetype & Transgression' (Dr Maggie Irving, 2013); 'Mythogeographic Performance and Performance Interventions in Spaces of Heritage-Tourism' (Dr Phil Smith, 2013); 'Memory & Site Responsive Installation Art' (James Barber, 2011); 'The Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Needs of Mid-Career Artists in South West England' (Dr Karen Smith, 2010); 'Information Art' (David Topping, 2010); 'Nostalgia and Contemporary Chanson Cabaret in Berlin' (Julia Harris, 2008); 'Articulations of Equity: Practice, Complexity and Power in Facilitated Art Projects' (Dr Gill Melling, 2006); ‘Creating Emotionally Aware Performance Spaces’ (Dr Richard Povall, 2003).