Richard Oakes

Richard Oakes is one of the PhD students funded by the AHRC project ‘Performing the Jewish Archive’. As part of his PhD he is investigating audience responses to theatrical and musical performances with the aim of determining the impact of the performances hosted by the project. He hopes to achieve this by using methodologies from multiple disciplines, in order to identify the most effective approaches to audience response testing, including methodologies from Psychology and Theatre Studies.

Richard is supervised on his PhD by two University of York academics who are also part of the ‘Performing the Jewish Archive’ project, Dr Lisa Peschel (Theatre, Film and Television Department) and Dr Nick Barraclough (Psychology Department).

Richard completed an undergraduate degree in Psychology and a master’s degree in Health Science and has experience working in Cancer Epidemiology and Pharmacology.