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Dr Ben Walmsley

Personal Information:
Position: Senior Lecturer
Phone: +44113 812 5747

Location:                  F406, Civic Quarter, Leeds, LS1 3HE

Ben is a Senior Lecturer in Entertainment Management at Leeds Metropolitan University with a professional background in theatre management and producing. In 1997, he produced and directed Ionesco’s La cantatrice chauve as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, before moving to Paris, where he taught at the Sorbonne. He managed One World Actors Productions in Paris for two years and then moved back to the UK to manage the leading Scottish touring company Benchtours, before taking up a managerial post at the new National Theatre of Scotland. Ben is a modern languages graduate from Nottingham University and holds an MBA from the University of Surrey’s School of Management. In 2000, he completed a PhD in French Theatre and Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. His current research interests are related to the qualitative value and impact of theatre. Current Research Projects


Ben is currently working on a conference paper on the importance of communal meaning in international theatre, which will be presented at this year’s International Conference on the Arts in Society in Venice. He has also just completed a case study on the National Theatre of Scotland, which will be presented at the annual Academy of Marketing Conference at Leeds Met’s Rose Bowl in June.

 

As the recipient of a Leeds Met Promising Researcher Fellowship, he is also collaborating with Dr James Oliver, a Research Fellow in the Institute of Governance at Edinburgh University and a Visiting Scholar at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, on an ethnographic study of the value and impact of theatre among audiences of Melbourne Theatre Company and West Yorkshire Playhouse.  Recent Publications
  • Walmsley, B. (forthcoming) Staged story & variety. In: Moss, S. ed. The Entertainment Industry: an introduction. Wallingford, CABI.
  • Walmsley, B. (forthcoming) West Yorkshire Playhouse: a case study. Huddersfield, West Yorkshire Lifelong Learning Network.
  • Walmsley, B. (2009) A reflective perspective on the challenges of developing teaching materials in a new academic discipline. Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism education. 8 (1), pp.129-132.
  • Walmsley, B. (2007) E-marketing the arts: using electronic applications to promote the performing arts. In: Proceedings of the Annual Academy of Marketing Conference, 3-6 July 2007, Kingston. Helensburgh, Academy of Marketing.
  • Walmsley, B. (2002) The problem of appellation: Ionescan theatre and the Absurdist genre. Glasgow Innovations in French Studies, 2.
  • Walmsley, B. (1999) Intellectuals on Sartre’s stage: The demise of reason in Les mains sales and Le diable et le bon dieu. International Sartre Studies Conference at the French Institute, London.
 
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Global Events Congress IV
Festivals and Events Research: State of the Art

14-16th July 2010

Organised in conjunction with the University of Queensland, Australia and Sun Yat-sen University, China.


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