Professor Deirdre Heddon
- James Arnott Chair in Drama (Theatre, Film & Television Studies)
- Interim Dean of Learning and Teaching (Arts & Humanities Senior Management)
telephone:
01413303810
email:
Deirdre.Heddon@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns:
She/her/hers
Room 329 Gilmorehill Halls, Theatre Studies, Gilmorehill Halls, Glasgow G12 8QQ
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9136-2151Biography
I received my doctoral degree in Theatre Studies from the University of Glasgow in 1999.
From 1998-2005 I was a Lecturer in Drama at the University of Exeter.
I returned to Glasgow in 2005, was promoted to Professor in 2012, and was appointed to the James Arnott Chair in Drama in 2015. The Chair of Drama was founded in 1972 and renamed in 1996 in memory of its first incumbent, James Fullarton Arnott (1914-1982). Arnott founded the Department of Drama at the University of Glasgow in 1966.
I have held a range of leadership positions in the College of Arts and Humanities, including Head of Theatre Studies, Dean of Graduate Studies, interim Dean of Learning & Teaching and Deputy Head of College. I was founding Dean/Director of the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities/AHRC DTP Scotland from 2014-2020. I served as a member of REF 2021 Sub-panel UoA 33: Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies.
Research interests
My doctoral research focused on feminism and live art and my commitment to contemporary performance and theatre practices persists. I remain interested in the use of personal stories - auto/biograpies in all their relational dynamics. Significant publications include Devising Performance: A Critical History (Palgrave Macmillan 2005), co-authored with Jane Milling, Autobiography and Performance (Palgrave Macmillan 2008), The National Review of Live Art 1979 - 2010: A Personal History - essays, anecdotes, drawings and images (New Moves International 2010), Histories and Practices of Live Art, co-edited with Jennie Klein (Palgrave Macmillan 2012) and It’s All Allowed: The Performances of Adrian Howells, co-edited with Dominic Johnson (Intellect and LADA 2016).
Another enduring interest has been walking aesthetics (walking art & creative walking), with the publication of numerous articles alongside practice-based research (see, for example 40 Walks, and Walking, Writing and Performance: Autobiographical Texts, ed. Roberta Mock (Intellect Books 2009). My creative research project, The Walking Library, a collaboration with Professor Misha Myers (University of Plymouth), was initiated in 2012. We have curated numerous commissioned editions of The Walking Library for different organisations, including Sideways Festival (Belgium), Glasgow Life, and The National Forest Company. I was PI on an AHRC Covid-19 Rapid Response project, WalkCreate, collaborating with Harry Wilson (University of Bristol), Clare Qualmann (University of East London), Morag Rose (University of Bristol) and Maggie O'Neill (University College Cork).
I am co-editor, with Sally Mackey (Emeritus Professor, Royal Central School of Speech & Drama) of an international series, Performing Landscapes (Palgrave Macmillan). Books published include Performing Mountains, Performing Ruins, Performing Farmscapes, and Performing Ice. I am currently working on Performing Forests. If you have a proposal for this series, please do get in touch.
The series Performing Landscapes connects to my interest in the relationships between performance and ecology/environmentalism. This is threaded through my walking scholarship and also, more recently, my work on a UKRI Treescapes project, newLEAF. Collaborating with Chris Fremantle (Grays School of Art) and Rachel Clive (University of Glasgow), we have explored the place of uncertainty in artists' work with living forests. A key outcome of our workpackage has also been the verbatim play, Three Words for Forest, which draws on interviews with 30 forestry practitioners to share insights on decision making in the face of deep uncertainty. We are also leading an RSE funded network, newLEAVES.
Publications
2024
Heddon, D. and Turner, C. (2024) Walking women: site relational movements. In: Hunter, Victoria and Turner, Cathy (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Site-Specific Performance. Routledge, pp. 132-149. ISBN 9781032254104 (doi: 10.4324/9781003283034-13)
Rose, M., Qualmann, C., Heddon, D. , Wilson, H. and O'Neill, M. (2024) Walkcreate: walking together as site-specific performance. In: Hunter, Victoria and Turner, Cathy (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Site-Specific Performance. Routledge, pp. 107-118. ISBN 9781032254104 (doi: 10.4324/9781003283034-11)
Heddon, D. , O'Neill, M., Qualmann, C., Rose, M. and Wilson, H. (2024) Just walking: Creative methods towards pedestrian equity. In: Gray, Karen and Tischler, Victoria (eds.) Creative Approaches to Wellbeing: The Pandemic and Beyond. Manchester University Press: Manchester, pp. 65-88. ISBN 9781526172600 (doi: 10.7765/9781526172600.00012)
2023
Heddon, D. , Qualmann, C., Rose, M., Wilson, H. and O'Neill, M. (2023) Data and Analysis of Artists’ Walking Survey: A Supplement to Artists’ Walking Work and COVID-19. [Research Reports or Papers]
Heddon, D. , Qualmann, C., Rose, M., Wilson, H. and O'Neill, M. (2023) #WalkCreate: Artists' Walking Work and COVID-19. Walking Publics/Walking Arts Artists' Report, January 2023. [Research Reports or Papers]
2022
Heddon, D. , Hind, C., O’Neill, M., Qualmann, C., Rose, M., Wilson, H., Wright, C., Billinghurst, H., Blissett, S., Broadbent, R., Brydon, L., Collison, C., Cullinan, F., Fisher, L., Ford, P. S., Ghelani, S., Grant, J., greenandowens, , Ludhra, G., Meynell, H., Nathan, I., Nightingale, L., O’Brien, A., Orley, E., Overall, S., Puppio, S., Sundree-Latchmi Rodgers, M., Rowley, L., Rudd, G., Scott, R., Sharanya, , Staff, J., Stratford, H., Welch, K., Welton, E., Whitelaw, S., Wilson, L. A., Wortley, J. and Yiu, N. (2022) The Walkbook: Recipes for Walking and Wellbeing. Walking Publics/Walking Arts. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.293315)
Rose, M., Heddon, D. , Law, M., O'Neill, M., Qualmann, C. and Wilson, H. (2022) #WalkCreate: Understanding Walking and Creativity During COVID-19: Summary. [Research Reports or Papers]
Rose, M., Heddon, D. , Law, M., O'Neill, M., Qualmann, C. and Wilson, H. (2022) #WalkCreate: Understanding Walking and Creativity During COVID-19. Walking Publics/Walking Arts Public Report, May 2022. [Research Reports or Papers]
Heddon, D. , Rose, M., O'Neill, M., Qualmann, C., Wilson, H. and Law, M. (2022) These times were made for walking. In: Ulrich, Matthias, Hesse, Fiona and Oucherif, Marie (eds.) WALK! Verlag für moderne Kunst. ISBN 9783903572591
2020
Heddon, D. (2020) Professional development for live artists: doing it yourself. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 11(2), pp. 145-161. (doi: 10.1080/19443927.2020.1740313)
Heddon, D. (2020) Marcia Farquhar: divergent auto/biographies and lines of hope. In: Live Art in the UK: Contemporary Performances of Precarity. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781474257701
2019
Heddon, D. and Myers, M. (2019) Pedestrian pedagogy: The Walking Library for Women Walking. Journal of Public Pedagogies, 2019(4), pp. 108-117.
Heddon, D. and Myers, M. (2019) The walking library for women walking. In: Borthwick, David, Marland, Pippa and Stenning, Anna (eds.) Walking, Landscape and Environment. Series: Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design. Routledge. ISBN 9781138630109
Heddon, D. and Myers, M. (2019) The Walking Library for a Wild City. [Website]
2018
Myers, M. and Heddon, D. (2018) The Walking Library Collections: The convivial logic of a library made for walking. [Website]
Cunningham, C. and Heddon, D. (2018) Four legs good... Performance Research, 23(4-5), pp. 198-203. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2018.1506539)
Myers, M. and Heddon, D. (2018) Walking library for a wild city. Performance Research, 23(7), pp. 48-49. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2018.1557010)
2017
Heddon, D. and Porter, S. (2017) Adapting to the future: vulnerable bodies, resilient practices. In: Ersoy, Aksel (ed.) The Impact of Co-Production: From Community Engagement to Social Justice. Series: Connected Communities. Policy Press: Bristol, pp. 179-200. ISBN 9781447330295
Heddon, D. (2017) The cultivation of entangled listening: an ensemble of more-than-human participants. In: Harpin, Anna and Nicholson, Helen (eds.) Performance and Participation: Practices, Audiences, Politics. Palgrave: Basingstoke, pp. 19-40. ISBN 9781137393173
Heddon, D. (2017) Variations I-III Gloss: Deirdre Heddon. In: Sack, Daniel (ed.) Imagined Theatres: Writing for a Theoretical Stage. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 240-241. ISBN 9781138122048
Heddon, D. and Myers, M. (2017) The walking library: mobilising books, places, readers and reading. Performance Research, 22(1), pp. 32-48. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2017.1285560)
Heddon, D. and Myers, M. (2017) On Libraries [Guest Editors]. Taylor & Francis.
Myers, M. and Heddon, D. (2017) On libraries: introduction. Performance Research, 22(1), pp. 1-8. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2017.1285554)
2016
Heddon, D. (2016) "Apologies if you’ve heard this all before but thanks for listening". In: Bastian, Michelle, Jones, Owain, Moore, Niamh and Roe, Emma (eds.) Participation in More-Than-Human Worlds. Series: Routledge studies in human geography. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138957350
Heddon, D. (2016) Confounding ecospectations: disappointment and hope in the forest. Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, 20(3), pp. 324-339. (doi: 10.1080/14688417.2016.1192001)
Heddon, D. (2016) Engaging arts, impacting PaR. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 36(1), pp. 79-87. (doi: 10.1080/14682761.2015.1111016)
2015
Heddon, D. (2015) Hand in Hand. In: Campbell, Alyson and Farrier, Stephen (eds.) Queer Dramaturgies: International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer. Palgrave Macmillan: London. ISBN 9781137411839
Heddon, D. and Milling, J. (2015) Devising Performance: A Critical History, 2nd Edition. Series: Theatre and performance practices. Palgrave Macmillan: London. ISBN 9781137426772
Heddon, D. (2015) Making it up. In: Carter, Pamela and Laing, Stewart (eds.) Paul Bright’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner. Oberon Books Ltd.: London. ISBN 9781783199495
Heddon, D. (2015) Correspondences. In: MacDonald, Claire (ed.) Utopia: Three Plays for a Postdramatic Theatre. Series: Playtext. Intellect: Bristol. ISBN 9781783204625
Heddon, D. (2015) Going for a walk: a verbatim play. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 35(3), pp. 177-188. 10.1080/14. (doi: 10.1080/14682761.2015.1067387)
Heddon, D. (2015) Taking a seat at the table. In: Harvie, Jen and Weaver, Lois (eds.) The Only Way Home is Through the Show. Series: Intellect Live. LADA/Intellect: London. ISBN 9781783205349
2014
Heddon, D. and Myers, M. (2014) Stories from the walking library. Cultural Geographies, 21(4), pp. 639-655. (doi: 10.1177/1474474014521361)
Heddon, D. (2014) Going for a Walk: A Verbatim Audio Walk. [Audio]
2013
Heddon, D. and Myers, M. (2013) The Walking Library. [Website]
2012
Heddon, D. (2012) The politics of live art. In: Heddon, D. and Klein, J. (eds.) Histories and Practice of Live Art. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780230229730
Heddon, D. and Mackey, S. (2012) Environmentalism, performance and applications: uncertainties and emancipations. Research in Drama Education, 17(2), pp. 163-192. (doi: 10.1080/13569783.2012.670421)
Heddon, D. and Turner, C. (2012) Walking women: shifting the tales and scales of mobility. Contemporary Theatre Review, 22(2), pp. 224-236. (doi: 10.1080/10486801.2012.666741)
Heddon, D. (2012) Turning 40: 40 turns. Walking & friendship. Performance Research, 17(2), pp. 67-75. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2012.671075)
Heddon, D. , Iball, H. and Zerihan, R. (2012) Come closer: confessions of intimate spectators in one to one performance. Contemporary Theatre Review, 22(1), pp. 120-133. (doi: 10.1080/10486801.2011.645233)
2011
Heddon, D. and Howells, A. (2011) From talking to silence: a confessional journey. PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, 33(1), pp. 1-12. (doi: 10.1162/PAJJ_a_00018)
Heddon, D. (2011) Walk this way. In: Tuukkanen, J., Whelan, G., Jaakkola, M. and Tervo, L. (eds.) ANTIVERSARY. ANTI Festival: Kuopio, Finland, pp. 123-133. ISBN 9789525870534
2010
Heddon, D. (2010) The horizon of sound: soliciting the earwitness. Performance Research, 15(3), pp. 36-42. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2010.527200)
Heddon, D. and Kelly, A. (2010) Distance dramaturgy. Performance Research, 20(2), pp. 214-220. (doi: 10.1080/10486801003682427)
Heddon, D. and Turner, C. (2010) Walking women: interviews with artists on the move. Performance Research, 15(4), pp. 14-22. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2010.539873)
2009
Heddon, D. (2009) 40 Walks Blog. [Website]
Heddon, D. , Lavery, C. and Smith, P. (2009) Walking, Writing and Performance: Autobiographical Texts. Intellect Books: Bristol. ISBN 9781841501550
Heddon, D. (2009) One square foot: thousands of roots. In: Mock, R. (ed.) Walking, Writing and Performance: Autobiographical Texts. Intellect Books: Bristol, UK, pp. 153-177. ISBN 9781841501550
Heddon, D. (2009) To absent friends: ethics in the field of auto/biography. In: Haedicke, S.C., Heddon, D., Oz, A. and Westlake, E.J. (eds.) Political Performances: Theory and Practice. Series: Themes in theatre (4). Rodopi: Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 111-136. ISBN 9789042026063
Heddon, D. (2009) Tree: a studio performance. In: Mock, R. (ed.) Walking, Writing and Performance: Autobiographical Texts. Intellect Books: Bristol, UK, pp. 143-152. ISBN 9781841501550
2008
Heddon, D. (2008) What's in a name? In: It's Not Hard: Reflections on Live Art. Tramway, pp. 32-37. ISBN 9781899551439
2007
Heddon, D. (2007) Ac/counting the I's. Research in Drama Education, 12(2), pp. 207-222. (doi: 10.1080/13569780701321203)
Heddon, D. (2007) One square foot: thousands of routes. PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, 29(2), pp. 40-50. (doi: 10.1162/pajj.2007.29.2.40)
Heddon, D. (2007) A visitor's guide to Glasgay. In: Godiwala, D. (ed.) Alternatives Within the Mainstream II: Queer Theatres in Post-War Britain. Cambridge Scholars Press: Cambridge, pp. 339-361. ISBN 9781847183064
Heddon, D.E. (2007) Autobiography and Performance. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230537538
2006
Heddon, D. (2006) Beyond the self: autobiography as dialogue. In: Wallace, C. (ed.) Monologues: Theatre, Performance, Subjectivity. Litteraria Pragensia: Prague, pp. 157-184. ISBN 8073081229
Heddon, D. (2006) Personal performance: the resistant confessions of Bobby Baker. In: Gill, J. (ed.) Modern Confessional Writing: New Critical Essays. Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature. Routledge: Oxon, pp. 137-153. ISBN 9780415339698
Heddon, D. (2006) Performing the confessional. In: Mathé, S. and Teulié, G. (eds.) Cultures de la Confession: Formes de l'Aveu dans le Monde Anglophone. Series: Mondes anglophones. Publications de l'Université de Provence: Aix-en-Provence, France. ISBN 9782853996471
Heddon, D. (2006) The politics of the personal: autobiography in performance. In: Aston, E. and Harris, G. (eds.) Feminist Futures? Theatre, Performance, Theory. Series: Performance interventions. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9781403945327
2005
Heddon, D. and Milling, J. (2005) Devising Performance: A Critical History. Palgrave. ISBN 1403906637
2004
Heddon, D. (2004) Performing lesbians: constructing the self, constructing the community. In: Gale, M. (ed.) Autobiography and Identity: Women, Theatre and Performance. Manchester University Press: Manchester, pp. 217-238. ISBN 9780719063336
2003
Heddon, D. (2003) Glory box: Tim Miller's autobiography of the future. New Theatre Quarterly, 19(3), pp. 243-256. (doi: 10.1017/S0266464X03000149)
2002
Heddon, D. (2002) Following in the footsteps... Performance Research, 7(4),
Heddon, D. (2002) Performing the archive: following in the footsteps. Performance Research, 7(4), pp. 64-77.
Heddon, D. (2002) Autotopography: graffiti, landscapes and selves. Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, 2(3),
Heddon, D. (2002) Performing the self. M/C Journal, 5(5),
1998
Heddon, D. (1998) What's in a name? Studies in Theatre Production, 18, pp. 49-59.
Articles
Heddon, D. (2020) Professional development for live artists: doing it yourself. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 11(2), pp. 145-161. (doi: 10.1080/19443927.2020.1740313)
Heddon, D. and Myers, M. (2019) Pedestrian pedagogy: The Walking Library for Women Walking. Journal of Public Pedagogies, 2019(4), pp. 108-117.
Cunningham, C. and Heddon, D. (2018) Four legs good... Performance Research, 23(4-5), pp. 198-203. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2018.1506539)
Myers, M. and Heddon, D. (2018) Walking library for a wild city. Performance Research, 23(7), pp. 48-49. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2018.1557010)
Heddon, D. and Myers, M. (2017) The walking library: mobilising books, places, readers and reading. Performance Research, 22(1), pp. 32-48. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2017.1285560)
Myers, M. and Heddon, D. (2017) On libraries: introduction. Performance Research, 22(1), pp. 1-8. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2017.1285554)
Heddon, D. (2016) Confounding ecospectations: disappointment and hope in the forest. Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, 20(3), pp. 324-339. (doi: 10.1080/14688417.2016.1192001)
Heddon, D. (2016) Engaging arts, impacting PaR. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 36(1), pp. 79-87. (doi: 10.1080/14682761.2015.1111016)
Heddon, D. (2015) Going for a walk: a verbatim play. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 35(3), pp. 177-188. 10.1080/14. (doi: 10.1080/14682761.2015.1067387)
Heddon, D. and Myers, M. (2014) Stories from the walking library. Cultural Geographies, 21(4), pp. 639-655. (doi: 10.1177/1474474014521361)
Heddon, D. and Mackey, S. (2012) Environmentalism, performance and applications: uncertainties and emancipations. Research in Drama Education, 17(2), pp. 163-192. (doi: 10.1080/13569783.2012.670421)
Heddon, D. and Turner, C. (2012) Walking women: shifting the tales and scales of mobility. Contemporary Theatre Review, 22(2), pp. 224-236. (doi: 10.1080/10486801.2012.666741)
Heddon, D. (2012) Turning 40: 40 turns. Walking & friendship. Performance Research, 17(2), pp. 67-75. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2012.671075)
Heddon, D. , Iball, H. and Zerihan, R. (2012) Come closer: confessions of intimate spectators in one to one performance. Contemporary Theatre Review, 22(1), pp. 120-133. (doi: 10.1080/10486801.2011.645233)
Heddon, D. and Howells, A. (2011) From talking to silence: a confessional journey. PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, 33(1), pp. 1-12. (doi: 10.1162/PAJJ_a_00018)
Heddon, D. (2010) The horizon of sound: soliciting the earwitness. Performance Research, 15(3), pp. 36-42. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2010.527200)
Heddon, D. and Kelly, A. (2010) Distance dramaturgy. Performance Research, 20(2), pp. 214-220. (doi: 10.1080/10486801003682427)
Heddon, D. and Turner, C. (2010) Walking women: interviews with artists on the move. Performance Research, 15(4), pp. 14-22. (doi: 10.1080/13528165.2010.539873)
Heddon, D. (2007) Ac/counting the I's. Research in Drama Education, 12(2), pp. 207-222. (doi: 10.1080/13569780701321203)
Heddon, D. (2007) One square foot: thousands of routes. PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, 29(2), pp. 40-50. (doi: 10.1162/pajj.2007.29.2.40)
Heddon, D. (2003) Glory box: Tim Miller's autobiography of the future. New Theatre Quarterly, 19(3), pp. 243-256. (doi: 10.1017/S0266464X03000149)
Heddon, D. (2002) Following in the footsteps... Performance Research, 7(4),
Heddon, D. (2002) Performing the archive: following in the footsteps. Performance Research, 7(4), pp. 64-77.
Heddon, D. (2002) Autotopography: graffiti, landscapes and selves. Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, 2(3),
Heddon, D. (2002) Performing the self. M/C Journal, 5(5),
Heddon, D. (1998) What's in a name? Studies in Theatre Production, 18, pp. 49-59.
Books
Heddon, D. , Hind, C., O’Neill, M., Qualmann, C., Rose, M., Wilson, H., Wright, C., Billinghurst, H., Blissett, S., Broadbent, R., Brydon, L., Collison, C., Cullinan, F., Fisher, L., Ford, P. S., Ghelani, S., Grant, J., greenandowens, , Ludhra, G., Meynell, H., Nathan, I., Nightingale, L., O’Brien, A., Orley, E., Overall, S., Puppio, S., Sundree-Latchmi Rodgers, M., Rowley, L., Rudd, G., Scott, R., Sharanya, , Staff, J., Stratford, H., Welch, K., Welton, E., Whitelaw, S., Wilson, L. A., Wortley, J. and Yiu, N. (2022) The Walkbook: Recipes for Walking and Wellbeing. Walking Publics/Walking Arts. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.293315)
Heddon, D. and Milling, J. (2015) Devising Performance: A Critical History, 2nd Edition. Series: Theatre and performance practices. Palgrave Macmillan: London. ISBN 9781137426772
Heddon, D. , Lavery, C. and Smith, P. (2009) Walking, Writing and Performance: Autobiographical Texts. Intellect Books: Bristol. ISBN 9781841501550
Heddon, D.E. (2007) Autobiography and Performance. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230537538
Heddon, D. and Milling, J. (2005) Devising Performance: A Critical History. Palgrave. ISBN 1403906637
Book Sections
Heddon, D. and Turner, C. (2024) Walking women: site relational movements. In: Hunter, Victoria and Turner, Cathy (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Site-Specific Performance. Routledge, pp. 132-149. ISBN 9781032254104 (doi: 10.4324/9781003283034-13)
Rose, M., Qualmann, C., Heddon, D. , Wilson, H. and O'Neill, M. (2024) Walkcreate: walking together as site-specific performance. In: Hunter, Victoria and Turner, Cathy (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Site-Specific Performance. Routledge, pp. 107-118. ISBN 9781032254104 (doi: 10.4324/9781003283034-11)
Heddon, D. , O'Neill, M., Qualmann, C., Rose, M. and Wilson, H. (2024) Just walking: Creative methods towards pedestrian equity. In: Gray, Karen and Tischler, Victoria (eds.) Creative Approaches to Wellbeing: The Pandemic and Beyond. Manchester University Press: Manchester, pp. 65-88. ISBN 9781526172600 (doi: 10.7765/9781526172600.00012)
Heddon, D. , Rose, M., O'Neill, M., Qualmann, C., Wilson, H. and Law, M. (2022) These times were made for walking. In: Ulrich, Matthias, Hesse, Fiona and Oucherif, Marie (eds.) WALK! Verlag für moderne Kunst. ISBN 9783903572591
Heddon, D. (2020) Marcia Farquhar: divergent auto/biographies and lines of hope. In: Live Art in the UK: Contemporary Performances of Precarity. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781474257701
Heddon, D. and Myers, M. (2019) The walking library for women walking. In: Borthwick, David, Marland, Pippa and Stenning, Anna (eds.) Walking, Landscape and Environment. Series: Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design. Routledge. ISBN 9781138630109
Heddon, D. and Porter, S. (2017) Adapting to the future: vulnerable bodies, resilient practices. In: Ersoy, Aksel (ed.) The Impact of Co-Production: From Community Engagement to Social Justice. Series: Connected Communities. Policy Press: Bristol, pp. 179-200. ISBN 9781447330295
Heddon, D. (2017) The cultivation of entangled listening: an ensemble of more-than-human participants. In: Harpin, Anna and Nicholson, Helen (eds.) Performance and Participation: Practices, Audiences, Politics. Palgrave: Basingstoke, pp. 19-40. ISBN 9781137393173
Heddon, D. (2017) Variations I-III Gloss: Deirdre Heddon. In: Sack, Daniel (ed.) Imagined Theatres: Writing for a Theoretical Stage. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 240-241. ISBN 9781138122048
Heddon, D. (2016) "Apologies if you’ve heard this all before but thanks for listening". In: Bastian, Michelle, Jones, Owain, Moore, Niamh and Roe, Emma (eds.) Participation in More-Than-Human Worlds. Series: Routledge studies in human geography. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138957350
Heddon, D. (2015) Hand in Hand. In: Campbell, Alyson and Farrier, Stephen (eds.) Queer Dramaturgies: International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer. Palgrave Macmillan: London. ISBN 9781137411839
Heddon, D. (2015) Making it up. In: Carter, Pamela and Laing, Stewart (eds.) Paul Bright’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner. Oberon Books Ltd.: London. ISBN 9781783199495
Heddon, D. (2015) Correspondences. In: MacDonald, Claire (ed.) Utopia: Three Plays for a Postdramatic Theatre. Series: Playtext. Intellect: Bristol. ISBN 9781783204625
Heddon, D. (2015) Taking a seat at the table. In: Harvie, Jen and Weaver, Lois (eds.) The Only Way Home is Through the Show. Series: Intellect Live. LADA/Intellect: London. ISBN 9781783205349
Heddon, D. (2012) The politics of live art. In: Heddon, D. and Klein, J. (eds.) Histories and Practice of Live Art. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780230229730
Heddon, D. (2011) Walk this way. In: Tuukkanen, J., Whelan, G., Jaakkola, M. and Tervo, L. (eds.) ANTIVERSARY. ANTI Festival: Kuopio, Finland, pp. 123-133. ISBN 9789525870534
Heddon, D. (2009) One square foot: thousands of roots. In: Mock, R. (ed.) Walking, Writing and Performance: Autobiographical Texts. Intellect Books: Bristol, UK, pp. 153-177. ISBN 9781841501550
Heddon, D. (2009) To absent friends: ethics in the field of auto/biography. In: Haedicke, S.C., Heddon, D., Oz, A. and Westlake, E.J. (eds.) Political Performances: Theory and Practice. Series: Themes in theatre (4). Rodopi: Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 111-136. ISBN 9789042026063
Heddon, D. (2009) Tree: a studio performance. In: Mock, R. (ed.) Walking, Writing and Performance: Autobiographical Texts. Intellect Books: Bristol, UK, pp. 143-152. ISBN 9781841501550
Heddon, D. (2008) What's in a name? In: It's Not Hard: Reflections on Live Art. Tramway, pp. 32-37. ISBN 9781899551439
Heddon, D. (2007) A visitor's guide to Glasgay. In: Godiwala, D. (ed.) Alternatives Within the Mainstream II: Queer Theatres in Post-War Britain. Cambridge Scholars Press: Cambridge, pp. 339-361. ISBN 9781847183064
Heddon, D. (2006) Beyond the self: autobiography as dialogue. In: Wallace, C. (ed.) Monologues: Theatre, Performance, Subjectivity. Litteraria Pragensia: Prague, pp. 157-184. ISBN 8073081229
Heddon, D. (2006) Personal performance: the resistant confessions of Bobby Baker. In: Gill, J. (ed.) Modern Confessional Writing: New Critical Essays. Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature. Routledge: Oxon, pp. 137-153. ISBN 9780415339698
Heddon, D. (2006) Performing the confessional. In: Mathé, S. and Teulié, G. (eds.) Cultures de la Confession: Formes de l'Aveu dans le Monde Anglophone. Series: Mondes anglophones. Publications de l'Université de Provence: Aix-en-Provence, France. ISBN 9782853996471
Heddon, D. (2006) The politics of the personal: autobiography in performance. In: Aston, E. and Harris, G. (eds.) Feminist Futures? Theatre, Performance, Theory. Series: Performance interventions. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9781403945327
Heddon, D. (2004) Performing lesbians: constructing the self, constructing the community. In: Gale, M. (ed.) Autobiography and Identity: Women, Theatre and Performance. Manchester University Press: Manchester, pp. 217-238. ISBN 9780719063336
Edited Books
Heddon, D. and Myers, M. (2017) On Libraries [Guest Editors]. Taylor & Francis.
Research Reports or Papers
Heddon, D. , Qualmann, C., Rose, M., Wilson, H. and O'Neill, M. (2023) Data and Analysis of Artists’ Walking Survey: A Supplement to Artists’ Walking Work and COVID-19. [Research Reports or Papers]
Heddon, D. , Qualmann, C., Rose, M., Wilson, H. and O'Neill, M. (2023) #WalkCreate: Artists' Walking Work and COVID-19. Walking Publics/Walking Arts Artists' Report, January 2023. [Research Reports or Papers]
Rose, M., Heddon, D. , Law, M., O'Neill, M., Qualmann, C. and Wilson, H. (2022) #WalkCreate: Understanding Walking and Creativity During COVID-19: Summary. [Research Reports or Papers]
Rose, M., Heddon, D. , Law, M., O'Neill, M., Qualmann, C. and Wilson, H. (2022) #WalkCreate: Understanding Walking and Creativity During COVID-19. Walking Publics/Walking Arts Public Report, May 2022. [Research Reports or Papers]
Audio
Heddon, D. (2014) Going for a Walk: A Verbatim Audio Walk. [Audio]
Website
Heddon, D. and Myers, M. (2019) The Walking Library for a Wild City. [Website]
Myers, M. and Heddon, D. (2018) The Walking Library Collections: The convivial logic of a library made for walking. [Website]
Heddon, D. and Myers, M. (2013) The Walking Library. [Website]
Heddon, D. (2009) 40 Walks Blog. [Website]
Grants
External
- 2023: Royal Society of Edinburgh, CoI £25,000
- 2022: UKRI Treescapes, newLEAF, Col £125,000
- 2021: AHRC Covid19 Rapid Response, Walking Publics/Walking Arts, PI £356,760
- 2019: AHRC NPIF Fellowships £220,000
- 2019: AHRC DTP2 Scotland £17,000,000
- 2019: SFC SGSAH £1,000,200
- 2018: AHRC NPIF Fellowships £220,000
- 2018: AHRC Innovative Placements £90,000
- 2018: AHRC AI Studentships £200,000
- 2018: Creative Scotland (CI) £20,000
- 2017: AHRC Creative Economies Fellowships £250,000
- 2017: AHRC NPIF Studentships, £990,000
- 2015: AHRC Policy Development £28,000
- 2015: Creative Scotland (PI) £13,800
- 2015: Arches, NTS, BAC, STR, LADA £7,400
- 2014: Scottish Funding Council (PI) £1,800,800
- 2014: AHRC Connected Communities Showcase (CI), £20,000
- 2014: PI, AHRC, Being Human Festival, £1,500
- 2014: AHRC DTP Scotland (PI) £14,200,000
- 2012: AHRC Walking Interconnections (CI) £31,744
- 2012: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award £54,504
- 2012: AHRC Skills Development £59,200
- 2012: AHRC Skills Development £40,000
- 2012: Carnegie £1620
- 2008-09: British Academy Small Grants £2474
- 2007-10: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award £50,000
- 2006-09: AHRC Creative Fellowship (Adrian Howells) £170,266
- 2005/6: AHRC Research Leave Scheme £14,000
Internal
- 2024: AHRC Impact Accelerator Account, £7,000
- 2024: Glasgow Knowledge Exchange Fund, £25,000
- 2023: AHRC Impact Accelerator Account, £7,000
Supervision
I welcome PhD proposals, including practice research, in the following areas:
- Walking art/creative walking
- Autobiographical and documentary forms of performance
- Live and performance art
- Ecological/environmental/site responsive performance
- Delaney, Lori
Performing Breast Cancer Stories: Disrupting Narratives and Constructing Selves - Hassall, Lee
More Than a Passing Pleasure: Performing Transmatic Landscapes in Dorothy Wordsworth’s 1803 Tour Of Scotland. - Veck, Tracy
Becoming Sensate Explorers
Past supervisions
- Harry Wilson, 'Roland Barthes, Theatre and Photography'.
- Leila Riszko, 'Breaching Bodily Boundaries'.
- Sarah Hopfinger, 'Performance (in) ecology: A practice-based approach’
- Cara Berger, ‘Lacanian Feminist Theory in Relation to Postdramatic Performance Practice'
- Lucy Amsden, ‘The Teacher and the Clown – the Pedagogy of Philippe Gaulier’
- Clare Louise Duffy, 'Practice as Research: Writing a Queer Aesthetic'
- David Overend, 'Underneath the Arches: Developing a relational performance aesthetic in response to a specific cultural site'
- Laura Bissell, 'The Posthuman Body in Performance’
- Rachel Clive, 'Geodiversity and human difference: disability, landscape form and process'
- Jenny Knotts, 'Play/writing histories: investigating the dramaturgical potential of architectural drawing practices in exploring the hidden histories of built spaces. An architextural study of the Citizens Theatre'
- Irene Ros, 'Performing Stragismo and Counter-spectacularisation: Italian right-wing Terrorism and Its Legacies’
Teaching
I teach across all Programme levels, offering courses in my specialist areas and contributing to several team taught courses. Teaching has included:
- Autobiography and Performance (Hons)
- Documentary Theatre (Hons)
- Postcolonial Encounters (Hons)
- Scottish Theatre (MLitt THeatre Studies)
- Reading the Stage (Level 1)
- Theatre and Society (Level 1)
Professional activities & recognition
Prizes, awards & distinctions
- 2005: Public Engagement (RSE)
Grant committees & research advisory boards
- 2009 - 2019: Arts and Humanities Research Council, Peer Review College
- 2020 - 2021: Research Excellence Framework, UoA32
Editorial boards
- 2012: Research in Drama Education
- 2010: Performing Ethos
- 2005: Studies in Theatre and Performance
- 2012: Contemporary Theatre and Performance
Professional & learned societies
- 2023: Elected Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh
Additional information
I have held a number of senior management positions including Dean of Graduate Studies and Deputy Head of the College of Arts. I was the founding Director of the Scottish Graduate School for the Arts & Humanities (SGSAH), the first and only such national graduate school in the world. The SGSAH, founded in 2014, is co-funded by the Scottish Funding Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. A membership organisation, it serves 16 HEIs across Scotland and works in partnership with more than 100 organisations across all sectors. SGSAH also manages the AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership which supports doctoral funding across Scotland. I am currently a member of Senate and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, where I serve on the Public Engagement Committee. I sit on the Advisory Board for RiDE: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance (Routledge) and am a Trustee of Scottish Youth Theatre. I have previously been a Trustee for Take Me Somewhere and The Arches, a member of the AHRC Peer Review College, and served on the REF 2021 Sub-pabel UoA33.
Awards
It’s All Allowed: The Performances of Adrian Howells, co-edited with Dominic Johnson, won the 2018 TaPRA Research Prize for Editing (Essay Collections and Special Issues).
