Dr Nic Fryer

Senior Lecturer (Practice) in Learning and Teaching

Nic Fryer
  • School Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education

  • Department Education

  • Location London

Research activities

  • Creative education
  • Group work
  • Reflective practice
  • Drama, theatre and performance education
  • Applied theatre
  • Devised theatre and devising pedagogy
  • Performance philosophy and the philosophy of Jacques Rancière

  • Current Teaching

    Nic is Course Leader of the FdA Learning and Teaching.  He is currently Module Leader for the following modules:

  • Curriculum Studies 1
  • Inclusive Practices
  • Understanding Behaviour
  • Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
  • Peer and Team Coaching in Higher Education
  • He also teaches on/has taught on the modules 

  • Education Research Project
  • Psychology of Learning in Higher Education

  • Biography

    Nic is a lecturer, teacher and theatre director.  He has taught in a range of educational settings, including working in drama departments in universities for fifteen years and secondary schools for thirteen years, where he led one of the largest Drama cohorts in the UK.  Nic has won various awards for his teaching and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.  He founded the award winning Small Change Theatre, whose productions Long Wave, Red Velvet and Making the Difference amongst others have toured nationally to a range of venues including BAC, Latitude Festival and Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

    Qualifications

    Title: Diploma in Group Work with Groupwork Practitioner Status

    Date: 31 Dec 2021

    Institution: Institute of Group Analysis.


    Title: PhD

    Notes: Thesis: Towards a Pedagogy of Devised Theatre Praxis. (Education, Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies).

    Date: 31 Dec 2013

    Institution: University of Warwick


    Title: Senior Fellowship

    Date: 31 Dec 2013

    Institution: Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.


    Title: MA Theatre Studies

    Date: 30 Jun 1994

    Institution: University of Leeds


    Title: BA (Hons) Drama

    Notes: First Class

    Date: 30 Jun 1992

    Institution: University of Bristol


    Publications