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Welcome
The Transcultural Writing, Practice and Research Network links creative practioners, academics and Lancaster University’s postgraduate student community to extensive research activity in creative transcultural practices and their impact on society. We research and promote writing and artistic practices across cultures and study their transformational impact on society and global relations.
The network encompasses research-as-practice, action-research projects, study of historical and contemporary creative practice, the innovative application of digital technologies and the interrelationship between writing, art and social change. We promote critical, pedagogical and theoretical accounts of praxis with special emphasis on cultural exchange between practitioners and with social and political institutions.
Associate Membership
We would like to invite anyone interested to join the Transcultural Writing, Practice and Research Network at Lancaster University as an Associate Member. We hope to make writers and academics with an interest in transcultural issues more visible to each other internationally and to extend the possibilities for networking and collaboration.
Associate members will be featured in a dedicated section on our website, which is currently receiving almost a million hits per annum from 50-60 countries. In order to qualify for membership you should belong to one or more of the following categories:
• a published creative writer and/or literary translator
• a professional performer
• a professional arts company
• an academic at a UK or overseas institution
• a postgraduate student at PhD level at a UK or overseas institution
What you should send us:
• name, title, institution or company name
• a high resolution digital photograph of yourself or a company logo, if appropriate
• a short personal biography/company profile of no more than 100 words
• a summary of writing/research/performance interests in the form of a list
• a list of publications (if any) with bibliographic details (maximum of 6)
• links to personal or academic websites
• email address
These should be sent to d.grass@lancaster.ac.uk or l.c.moore@lancaster.ac.uk as a Word file with a covering email. We reserve the right not to include you in our associate members if we consider that you do not fit the profile described above.
Taking Liberties
Since it was founded in 2006, the Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research has raised the profile of a range of transcultural and intercultural research activities. One of the most recent is Taking Liberties, funded by the Leverhulme Trust – a practice-based research project led by writer and academic Professor Graham Mort. He was based at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, from February to May 2018. The site contains a writers’ gallery, featuring participants from the project; a gallery of photographic images capturing our activities and others on the UWC campus, as well as the text and recording of a performance poem built by workshop members.