Staff Profile

REPORTS, COMMENTARIES AND CREATIVE WRITING  

Raynor, R (2020) 'Pandemic Unrealities' in Civil Society and Post Pandemic Planning ed. Emma Ormerod, Simin Davoudi and Miranda Iossifidis 

Raynor, R (2019) Changing the question from 'Is this the end of austerity?' to 'what ends in Austerity?’” Antipode, Online Intervention
This commentary draws focus on the gaps in provision that, in part, form the hidden life of austerity and it centres the challenge of researching how endings and losses are lived.

Webb, D. Raynor, R. and Ormerod, E. (2018) ‘Collaboration in the North East, Learning from Current Practice’ for the North East collaboration network event – November 2018. Examines the opportunities and threats for partnership working as a mechanism for ‘community resilience.’

Pain, R. et. al. (2016): ‘Mapping Alternative Impact: Alternative Approaches to Impact from Co-produced Research’ http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/115470/1/115470.pdf N8 and ESRC funded report, developed collaboratively at a Durham University network meeting (organised by Rachel Pain and myself) makes the case for an expanded understanding of what constitutes ‘impact.’

Pain, R. and Raynor, R. (2016) ‘A Soup of Different Inspirations: Impact and Co-produced Research’ http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/01/28/a-soup-of-different- inspirations-impact-and-co-produced-research/ Blog summarizing reflections on a participatory theatre- making process.

Pain, R. and Raynor, R. (2016): ‘Knowledge that Matters Realising the Potential of Coproduction’ https://coproductionblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/final-report-co- production-2016-01-20.pdf. Report outlines non-linear and often-intangible relationships between co-produced research and impact.

Raynor, R (2015) ‘Diehard Gateshead’ Produced by Theatre of Moths, Directed by Neil Armstrong.

Raynor, R. (2011) Evaluation Report ‘Herstory Told’ for Open Clasp Theatre Company Report on collaboration between Open Clasp Theatre Company and GAP project – a support group for women sex workers in the North East of England.

Panel discussant for 'Troubling Hope' Organised by Harry Pettit RGS-IBG.  

Alternative Futures for ‘Time and Austerity: Troubled Pasts/ Hopeful Futures’ Organised by Sarah-Marie Hall, Stephanie Denning and Ruth Raynor, RGS-IBG

Vicarious Life for ‘Mediated Presents’ Leverhulme funded workshop, Goldsmiths University, UK (May, 2019)

Post-show panel discussant for ‘Locker Room Talk’ written by Gary McNair directed by Anna Ryder Live Theatre, Newcastle (May, 2019)

The Politics of Hope Amidst Decline: Gendered Precarity in an Austere UK for ESRC funded cross-sector conference, ‘Feminist Engagements with Austerity’ University of Bristol, UK (January, 2019)

Hope and Gendered Precarity for Cities Seminar Series: ‘The Emotional Life of the City’ LSE, UK (January, 2019)

Starting with the End for ‘Creative Writing for Social Research,’ AHRC funded workshop Sheffield University, UK (November, 2018)

Making Theatre for Social Research, for ‘Methods on the Move’ the Sociological Review Foundation workshop, Liverpool University, UK (October, 2018)

Dramatising Austerity: Holding a Story Together (And Why it Falls Apart...) for ‘Tyneside Specificities’ panel, at ‘Undisciplining: Conversations from the Edges’ The Sociological Review Annual Conference, Gateshead, UK (June, 2018)

Mediating, Scenes: The Politics of the Present (with Prof Ben Anderson) for ‘The social life of time: power, discrimination and transformation’ Edinburgh, UK (June, 2018)

Austerity Futures for the Global Urban Research Unit Symposium, Newcastle University, UK (May, 2017)

Panel Discussant for public screening of I, Daniel Blake, directed by Ken Loach, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle, UK (November, 2016)

Holding Things Together (and why they fall apart ... ): Encountering and Dramatising Austerity for ‘Performing Politics’ RGS-IBG, London, UK (September, 2016)

Austerity: Suspended Dissonance ‘Austerity Geographies’ Conference for Distinguished International Visitor Mark Blyth, Durham University, UK (May, 2015)

Making, Play, Work: on Austerity Lived ‘Annual Social Justice Conference,’ Durham, University, UK (June, 2015)

2014 Discussant: Crisis/emergency and Austerity for ESRC ‘Austere Futures’ seminar series, Durham University, UK (June, 2014)

CONFERENCES, EVENTS, WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS – SPEAKER

‘Alternative Futures’ Time and Austerity: Troubled Pasts/ Hopeful Futures RGS-IBG Scenes: Mediating Spatial Imaginaries

Austerity Futures for ‘Encountering Austerity,’ RGS-IBG, London, UK (September, 2016) Scene: the Present Tensed, (with Prof Ben Anderson) for ‘The Present’ AAG, Chicago, USA

Theatrical Attunements: on (De)Composing habit at the ‘Spaces of Attunement: Life, Matter and the Dance of Encounters’ conference at Cardiff University, UK (March, 2015)

Working with Women, Dancing, Pulled and Resisting through Austerity’s Smog for ‘Futures in Question Conference,’ as part of the ESRC Austere Futures seminar series, Goldmiths, London, UK (September, 2014)

Imagining State-welfare Relations as Domestic Abuse for ‘Intergenerational geographies of family and intimate relations’ RGS-IBG, London, UK (August, 2014)

Exploring a Process of Participatory Script Development with Focus on the Productive Role of Future (Imagined) and Present Audiences for: ‘Complicating the co-production of art: Hidden humans and acting objects’ RGS-IBG, London, UK (August, 2014)

The Sun-Shines on: Drama Games and Habit for ‘Locating performance and the political,’ Durham University, UK (January, 2013)

CONFERENCES, EVENTS, WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS - ORGANISER

Events, conferences and sessions, organised to encourage cross-disciplinary and cross-industry collaboration, and/or lay out new directions for research and activism.

2019 Co-organised Starting with The End(s) with Nick Rush-Cooper x 2 sessions for the RGS- IBG, London (August, 2019)

Co-organised Time and Austerity: Troubled Pasts/ Hopeful Futures with Sarah Marie Hall and Stephanie Denning, double session and pop-up exhibition for the RGS-IBG, London (August, 2019)

2016 Co- organised and chaired: Encountering Austerity (1) (2) and (3) with Dr. Esther Hitchen for the RGS- IBG, London (September, 2016) resulting in a special issue in Geoforum

2015 Co-organised and chaired with Prof Ben Anderson, Durham University: The Present (1) (2), American Association of Geographers, Chicago, USA, (April, 2015)

Co-organised with Prof Rachel Pain, Durham University: Mapping Impact Together Participatory Research Hub, Durham University, UK funded by N8 and ESRC IAA (October, 2015)

2013 Co-organised with Dr Elizabeth Richardson, Durham University: Locating Performance and the Political Durham University Geography Department, funded by the Cultural Geographies Research Cluster UK (January 2013)

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT 

Organised and Chaired: Creative Methods as part of the Distinguished International Visitor Conference: Gerry Pratt, at the Empty Shop, Durham, UK (May 2013)