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About

Guildhall De-Centre for Socially Engaged Practice and Research builds on the work of Guildhall School’s former Institute for Social Impact Research in the Performing Arts and other past initiatives that have explored socially engaged, equitable, sustainable and transdisciplinary practices across the School and beyond.

Guildhall De-Centre focuses on the support structures, networks and collaborations that form the basis of socially engaged practices by developing a community of researchers, practitioners, producers, teachers and administrators at Guildhall School.

The De-Centre fosters a range of activities including research (see ‘Lines of enquiry’), internal operations, curriculum development, and public exchanges to investigate, chronicle, and integrate decentralized, socially conscious, equitable, sustainable, and interdisciplinary practices throughout the School. Our goal is to champion these practices within the conservatoire and further afield, enhancing interaction, exchange, and recognition of socially engaged endeavours.

The De-Centre operates under the stewardship of Guildhall School staff members who convene monthly to deliberate and make decisions collaboratively. The steering group has been instrumental in guiding and nurturing the growth of the De-Centre. Current members include:

Beatrice Baumgartner-Cohen	Nell Catchpole	Jo Chard
Sean Gregory	Sig Griffiths	Sophie Hope
Maia Mackney	Emily Orley	Gilly Roche
Rob Severyn	Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh	Toby Young

Lines of enquiry

'Lines of enquiries' are the current and emerging practice and research projects in the School that connect to the De-Centre's aims and ambitions around socially engaged work and infrastructure.

The following is a list of current key contributors and their lines of enquiry, clustered around three intersecting areas: Micro, Meso, and Macro.