George Belliveau
Biographic Data
| ID | 84811 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Belliveau |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Belliveau |
| SIGNATURE | BELLIVEAU G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6937-7581 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Viewpoints/Points of View: Building a Transdisciplinary Data Theatre Collaboration in Six Scenes
Data now plays a central role in civic life and community practices. This has created a pressing need for new forms of translation and sense-making that can engage diverse publics. Research-based Theatre (RbT) has proven to be an effective approach to delivering qualitative data to community stakeholders. We extend this tradition by proposing “community-engaged data theatre”. This approach translates quantitative data into theatrical language to …
Empathy and Listening in Research-Based Theatre
This article shares excerpts from the playscript Unload, which brings to life research on military veterans and the lived experience of civilians carrying trauma. Co-developed by veterans, artists, researchers, and counsellors, the play follows a veteran’s journey to overcome challenges in and out of uniform and sees him guide a civilian friend through unspoken grief that has been haunting him for decades. This research-based play artistically sy…
Through a Glass Brightly: Generative Ethical Tensions in Research-Based Theatre
This qualitative case study methodically explores ethical tensions that arose in the Research-based Theatre (RbT) project, Alone in the Ring (AitR), as a case. We borrowed Elliot Eisner’s set of tensions in Arts-Based Research (ABR), exploring the extent to which they manifested as ethical tensions in AitR. Following analysis of in-depth interviews with key project members, we identified five areas of ethical tension in AitR, adapting Eisner’s fr…
A Landscape of Ethics in Research-Based Theater: Staging Lives of Family Members Who Have Passed
Blending academic and theatrical worlds in research-based theater (RbT) requires balancing academic demands of institutionalized research and aesthetic demands of theater. This duality becomes particularly significant regarding ethics. With so much possibility, it becomes imperative for practitioners to share, and learn from, vulnerable and challenging ethical experiences. This creates landscapes of ethical possibilities for RbT and guideposts fo…
Research-based Theatre about veterans transitioning home: A mixed-methods evaluation of audience impacts
Research-based theatre has significant potential as a knowledge translation intervention for mental health topics. The work also points to the untapped potential of using RbT to engage audience members in a mental health literacy intervention. Future work is needed to study how to effectively combine research-based theatre with intervention design frameworks and other mental health literacy interventions
Looking back and looking forward: Educational drama in Chinese language arts education
For the last few decades there has been an increased growth for practice in Educational Drama in China. This pedagogical approach has caught the attention of Chinese language arts educators, who teach Chinese as a first language. Recent research points to how these Chinese language arts educators recognize drama as a positive and effective medium for learning language and literature. By considering and analyzing literature in the field, the autho…
Staging Therapeutic Enactment with Veterans in Contact!Unload
This article shares an excerpt from the research-based theatre production Contact!Unload. The play, developed with military veterans using community theatre approaches, explores experiences of veterans transitioning from active service and living with trauma-related stress injuries. The excerpt included in this article provides a theatricalized example of therapeutic enactment (TE), a central intervention of the Veterans’ Transition Project (VTP)…
Theatre with veterans: Transition and recovery
This article shares research from an initiative where researchers in counselling psychology and theatre education collaborated with military veterans to produce the play Contact!Unload. Researchers and community members participated with returning veterans in a series of drama-based workshops that led to the production. The collective process was an expressive vehicle for military men to publicly reinterpret their struggles and experiences of tra…
Situated methodologies: A critical enquiry into art-based health research
Audience responses to Contact!Unload: A Canadian research-based play about returning military veterans
Contact!Unload, a research-based play co-developed with veterans and community members, depicts the experiences of a group of veterans serving in Afghanistan (and elsewhere) and their transition home after overseas combat. The play was first produced in April 2015 in a professional theatre venue in Vancouver, and has subsequently been staged 15 times across Canada. To date, eight veterans have taken part as performers in this theatre initiative l…
Arts-based health research and academic legitimacy: Transcending Hegemonic Conventions
Using the Canadian context as a case study, the research reported here focuses on in-depth qualitative interviews with 36 researchers, artists and trainees engaged in 'doing' arts-based health research (ABHR). We begin to address the gap in ABHR knowledge by engaging in a critical inquiry regarding the issues, challenges and benefits of ABHR methodologies. Specifically, this paper focuses on the tensions experienced regarding academic legitimacy …
Performing the human subject: Arts-based knowledge dissemination in health research
This article reflects on a pilot project undertaken at the University of British Columbia, Canada, by an interdisciplinary team of researchers and lay and professional artists. The project was an experiment in the use of arts-based methods as a means of disseminating research findings from a five-year funded study entitled ‘Centring the Human Subject in Health Research: Understanding the Meaning and Experience of Research Participation’. Through …
Delineating a Spectrum of Research-Based Theatre
This article builds on existing definitions and classification systems of research-based theatre to offer a way to define subgenres within the field. In order to identify similarities and particularities of theatrical performances based on research, the authors first consider definitions from practitioners working within the academy and those creating theatre for the general public. After reviewing these existing traditions and definitions, the a…
Multiple perspectives, loyalties and identities: Exploring intrapersonal spaces through research‐based theatre
This paper recounts the investigative journey of a small group of faculty and graduate students at the University of British Columbia who extensively employed research‐based theatre methods to collaboratively and performatively explore three distinct but related contexts that represent critical ‘moments’ in the professional lives of educators and artists. By blending participatory action research with theatre‐based inquiry, the researchers explor…
The Role of Drama on Cultural Sensitivity, Motivation and Literacy in a Second Language Context
Although drama has been used successfully in English as a second language and has been shown to have positive effects on achievement and on self-confidence and motivation in various studies, it has received little attention in French immersion context where subjects are taught in French, the second language of students. The objective of this study was to teach about Acadian culture to one French immersion class using drama (Drama group) and the o…
Delineating a Spectrum of Research-Based Theatre
This article builds on existing definitions and classification systems of research-based theatre to offer a way to define subgenres within the field. In order to identify similarities and particularities of theatrical performances based on research, the authors first consider definitions from practitioners working within the academy and those creating theatre for the general public. After reviewing these existing traditions and definitions, the a…
Arts-based health research and academic legitimacy: Transcending Hegemonic Conventions
Using the Canadian context as a case study, the research reported here focuses on in-depth qualitative interviews with 36 researchers, artists and trainees engaged in 'doing' arts-based health research (ABHR). We begin to address the gap in ABHR knowledge by engaging in a critical inquiry regarding the issues, challenges and benefits of ABHR methodologies. Specifically, this paper focuses on the tensions experienced regarding academic legitimacy …
Multiple perspectives, loyalties and identities: Exploring intrapersonal spaces through research‐based theatre
This paper recounts the investigative journey of a small group of faculty and graduate students at the University of British Columbia who extensively employed research‐based theatre methods to collaboratively and performatively explore three distinct but related contexts that represent critical ‘moments’ in the professional lives of educators and artists. By blending participatory action research with theatre‐based inquiry, the researchers explor…
The Role of Drama on Cultural Sensitivity, Motivation and Literacy in a Second Language Context
Although drama has been used successfully in English as a second language and has been shown to have positive effects on achievement and on self-confidence and motivation in various studies, it has received little attention in French immersion context where subjects are taught in French, the second language of students. The objective of this study was to teach about Acadian culture to one French immersion class using drama (Drama group) and the o…
Research-based Theatre about veterans transitioning home: A mixed-methods evaluation of audience impacts
Research-based theatre has significant potential as a knowledge translation intervention for mental health topics. The work also points to the untapped potential of using RbT to engage audience members in a mental health literacy intervention. Future work is needed to study how to effectively combine research-based theatre with intervention design frameworks and other mental health literacy interventions
The Role of Drama on Cultural Sensitivity, Motivation and Literacy in a Second Language Context
Although drama has been used successfully in English as a second language and has been shown to have positive effects on achievement and on self-confidence and motivation in various studies, it has received little attention in French immersion context where subjects are taught in French, the second language of students. The objective of this study was to teach about Acadian culture to one French immersion class using drama (Drama group) and the o…
Multiple perspectives, loyalties and identities: Exploring intrapersonal spaces through research‐based theatre
This paper recounts the investigative journey of a small group of faculty and graduate students at the University of British Columbia who extensively employed research‐based theatre methods to collaboratively and performatively explore three distinct but related contexts that represent critical ‘moments’ in the professional lives of educators and artists. By blending participatory action research with theatre‐based inquiry, the researchers explor…
Delineating a Spectrum of Research-Based Theatre
This article builds on existing definitions and classification systems of research-based theatre to offer a way to define subgenres within the field. In order to identify similarities and particularities of theatrical performances based on research, the authors first consider definitions from practitioners working within the academy and those creating theatre for the general public. After reviewing these existing traditions and definitions, the a…
Performing the human subject: Arts-based knowledge dissemination in health research
This article reflects on a pilot project undertaken at the University of British Columbia, Canada, by an interdisciplinary team of researchers and lay and professional artists. The project was an experiment in the use of arts-based methods as a means of disseminating research findings from a five-year funded study entitled ‘Centring the Human Subject in Health Research: Understanding the Meaning and Experience of Research Participation’. Through …
Arts-based health research and academic legitimacy: Transcending Hegemonic Conventions
Using the Canadian context as a case study, the research reported here focuses on in-depth qualitative interviews with 36 researchers, artists and trainees engaged in 'doing' arts-based health research (ABHR). We begin to address the gap in ABHR knowledge by engaging in a critical inquiry regarding the issues, challenges and benefits of ABHR methodologies. Specifically, this paper focuses on the tensions experienced regarding academic legitimacy …
Theatre with veterans: Transition and recovery
This article shares research from an initiative where researchers in counselling psychology and theatre education collaborated with military veterans to produce the play Contact!Unload. Researchers and community members participated with returning veterans in a series of drama-based workshops that led to the production. The collective process was an expressive vehicle for military men to publicly reinterpret their struggles and experiences of tra…
Situated methodologies: A critical enquiry into art-based health research
Audience responses to Contact!Unload: A Canadian research-based play about returning military veterans
Contact!Unload, a research-based play co-developed with veterans and community members, depicts the experiences of a group of veterans serving in Afghanistan (and elsewhere) and their transition home after overseas combat. The play was first produced in April 2015 in a professional theatre venue in Vancouver, and has subsequently been staged 15 times across Canada. To date, eight veterans have taken part as performers in this theatre initiative l…
Staging Therapeutic Enactment with Veterans in Contact!Unload
This article shares an excerpt from the research-based theatre production Contact!Unload. The play, developed with military veterans using community theatre approaches, explores experiences of veterans transitioning from active service and living with trauma-related stress injuries. The excerpt included in this article provides a theatricalized example of therapeutic enactment (TE), a central intervention of the Veterans’ Transition Project (VTP)…
Looking back and looking forward: Educational drama in Chinese language arts education
For the last few decades there has been an increased growth for practice in Educational Drama in China. This pedagogical approach has caught the attention of Chinese language arts educators, who teach Chinese as a first language. Recent research points to how these Chinese language arts educators recognize drama as a positive and effective medium for learning language and literature. By considering and analyzing literature in the field, the autho…
Research-based Theatre about veterans transitioning home: A mixed-methods evaluation of audience impacts
Research-based theatre has significant potential as a knowledge translation intervention for mental health topics. The work also points to the untapped potential of using RbT to engage audience members in a mental health literacy intervention. Future work is needed to study how to effectively combine research-based theatre with intervention design frameworks and other mental health literacy interventions
Through a Glass Brightly: Generative Ethical Tensions in Research-Based Theatre
This qualitative case study methodically explores ethical tensions that arose in the Research-based Theatre (RbT) project, Alone in the Ring (AitR), as a case. We borrowed Elliot Eisner’s set of tensions in Arts-Based Research (ABR), exploring the extent to which they manifested as ethical tensions in AitR. Following analysis of in-depth interviews with key project members, we identified five areas of ethical tension in AitR, adapting Eisner’s fr…
A Landscape of Ethics in Research-Based Theater: Staging Lives of Family Members Who Have Passed
Blending academic and theatrical worlds in research-based theater (RbT) requires balancing academic demands of institutionalized research and aesthetic demands of theater. This duality becomes particularly significant regarding ethics. With so much possibility, it becomes imperative for practitioners to share, and learn from, vulnerable and challenging ethical experiences. This creates landscapes of ethical possibilities for RbT and guideposts fo…
Viewpoints/Points of View: Building a Transdisciplinary Data Theatre Collaboration in Six Scenes
Data now plays a central role in civic life and community practices. This has created a pressing need for new forms of translation and sense-making that can engage diverse publics. Research-based Theatre (RbT) has proven to be an effective approach to delivering qualitative data to community stakeholders. We extend this tradition by proposing “community-engaged data theatre”. This approach translates quantitative data into theatrical language to …
Empathy and Listening in Research-Based Theatre
This article shares excerpts from the playscript Unload, which brings to life research on military veterans and the lived experience of civilians carrying trauma. Co-developed by veterans, artists, researchers, and counsellors, the play follows a veteran’s journey to overcome challenges in and out of uniform and sees him guide a civilian friend through unspoken grief that has been haunting him for decades. This research-based play artistically sy…
Sociology (13 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Visual arts (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Art Therapy and Mental Health (6 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · The arts (5 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (5 works)