Dr Margaret Ames
BA (Llundain) MA (Cymru) Graduate Diploma (Surrey) PhD (Aberystwyth)
Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance
Theatre, Film and Television Studies
Contact Details
- Email: mma@aber.ac.uk
- ORCID: 0000-0002-1363-2758
- Office:2.20 Parry - Williams Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 628488
- Research Portal Profile (https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/persons/7758af17-74bd-4a2c-a67f-c2f59260cf34)
Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance
- AB1 Body, Voice, Perception (TP10120)
- AB1 Performance and Disability (TP30320)
- AB1 Ensemble Performance Project (TP35520)
Module Coordinator
- AB2 16mm Filmmaking (TFM0720)
- AB1 Abroad Year Credits (TFS0060)
- AB1 Abroad Year Credits (DRS0060)
- AB1 Acting for Camera (TP25920)
- AB1 Acting: Process and Performance (TP21220)
- AB2 Acting: Process and Performance (TP11220)
- AB2 Actio: Proses a Pherfformiad (TC11620)
- AB1 Advanced Cinematography (FM37520)
- AB2 Advanced Editing (FM30920)
- AB2 Advanced Scenographic Project (TP35940)
- AB1 Advanced Sound (FM30820)
- AB1 Advanced Studio Practice (scenography) (TP31020)
- AB2 Art Cinema (FM24420)
- AB1 Astudio Ffilm (TC10020)
- AB2 Astudio Teledu (TC12020)
- AB1 Body, Voice, Perception (TP10120)
- AB1 Contemporary Drama (TP30020)
- AB2 Contemporary Film and the Break-Up of Britain (FM30020)
- AB2 Contemporary TV (FM30320)
- AB2 Creative Arts at Work (TP20220)
- AB1 Creative Documentary (FM26520)
- AB2 Creative Fiction: Horror (FM20920)
- AB2 Creative Television Studio (FM25420)
- AB1 Creu Ffilmiau Byrion 1 (TC11120)
- AB1 Cult Cinema: Texts, Histories and Audiences (FM38220)
- AB2 Cydweithio Ensemble (TC10820)
- AB2 Cyfieithu Creadigol Rhyngwladol (CYM5820)
- AB2 Cynhyrchiad Annibynnol (TC31320)
- AB1 Design Project (TP22620)
- AB1 Devised Performance Project (TP21620)
- AB2 Digital Culture (FM25520)
- AB1 Directing and Producing (FM24220)
- AB1 Directors' Theatre (TP21820)
- AB1 Documentary Practices (TFM0840)
- AB1 Documentary Production (FM33740)
- AB1 Dogfen Greadigol (TC25620)
- AB1 Dulliau Darllen (MOR0510)
- AB1 Ecocriticism and Ecocinema (TFM0920)
- AB1 Ensemble Performance Project (TP35520)
- AB1 Experimental Cinema (FM34520)
- AB1 Experimental Media Production (FM33540)
- AB1 Ffilm a Theatr Americanaidd (TC39920)
- AB1 Fiction Film Production (FM34240)
- AB1 Film Craft 1 (FM22820)
- AB2 Film Craft 2 (FM22920)
- AB2 Film Stardom and Celebrity (FM21520)
- AB1 Gender and the Media (FM38320)
- AB1 Hanes Teledu (TC20520)
- AB2 Independent Production Project (TP38140)
- AB1 Independent Research Project (FM36040)
- AB1 Independent Research Project (TP36040)
- AB1 Introduction to Film Production (FM17620)
- AB2 Introduction to Post-Production and Editing (FM10820)
- AB1 LGBT Film & Television (FM20120)
- AB2 Making Short Films 1 (FM11520)
- AB1 Making Short Films 1 (FM11420)
- AB2 Making Short Films 2 (FM11240)
- AB2 Media Law and Regulation (FM36720)
- AB2 Media Semiotics (FM34120)
- AB2 Media, Politics and Power (FM22620)
- AB2 Movements in Film History (FM11120)
- AB2 Music Theatre Dramaturgies (TP39020)
- AB2 Performance and Architecture (TP33420)
- AB1 Performance and Disability (TP30320)
- AB1 Place, Space and Landscape (TP32820)
- AB1 Playwriting (TP33340)
- AB1 Principles of Scenography (TP22320)
- AB2 Production Design Skills (FM22120)
- AB1 Professional Practice Year (TPS0260)
- AB1 Professional Practice Year (TPS0360)
- AB2 Prosiect Cynhyrchu Theatr (TC24940)
- AB1 Prosiect Ymchwil Creadigol (TC36140)
- AB1 Prosiect Ymchwil Ymarferol (TC20220)
- AB1 Screening the Brave New World: television in 20th-century Britain (FM31020)
- AB1 Scriptwriting 1 (FM37020)
- AB2 Scriptwriting 2 (FM37120)
- AB2 Shakespeare in Performance (TP23220)
- AB2 Site-Specific Performance Project (TP11420)
- AB1 Space, Place and Visual Culture (TFM0420)
- AB2 Stiwdio Deledu Greadigol (TC25420)
- AB1 Studio Theatre Project (TP11120)
- AB2 Studying Communication (FM10720)
- AB1 Studying Film (FM10120)
- AB1 Studying Media (FM10620)
- AB2 Studying Television (FM10220)
- AB2 Testunau Bob Lliw: llunio profiadau LHDT+ (CY32720)
- AB2 Testunau'r Enfys: llunio profiadau LHDT+ (CY22720)
- AB1 The Story of Television (FM20420)
- AB1 Theatr a Chyd-Destun 1 (TC11020)
- AB2 Theatr a Chyd-Destun 2 (TC11420)
- AB1 Theatr a Chymdeithas Gyfoes (TC20920)
- AB2 Theatre Production Project (TP24940)
- AB1 Theatre Technologies (TP19820)
- AB2 Theatre Technologies 2 (TP19920)
- AB1 Theatre and Contemporary Society (TP20820)
- AB1 Theatre in Context 1 (TP11020)
- AB2 Theatre in Context 2 (TP11320)
- AB1 Videogame Theories (FM38420)
- AB1 Work in the Film & Television Industries (FM23820)
- AB2 Writing Audio Drama (FM27120)
- AB1 Writing Continuing TV Drama (FM17320)
- AB1 Writing for Film and Television (FM21620)
- AB2 Ymarfer Cynhyrchu 2: Cyfryngau (TC31120)
- AB2 Ymarfer Cynhyrchu 2: Gorffen (TC31220)
- AB2 Ymarfer Cynhyrchu 2: Perfformio (TC31020)
- AB1 Youth Cultures (FM22320)
- AB2 Cynhyrchiad Annibynnol (TC31320)
- AB1 Directors' Theatre (TP21820)
- AB1 Ensemble Performance Project (TP35520)
- AB2 Site-Specific Performance Project (TP11420)
- AB1 Studio Theatre Project (TP11120)
- AB1 Theatre in Context 1 (TP11020)
Lecturer
- AB2 Cynhyrchiad Annibynnol (TC31320)
- AB1 Directors' Theatre (TP21820)
- AB1 Ensemble Performance Project (TP35520)
- AB1 Independent Research Project (TP36040)
- AB1 Independent Research Project (FM36040)
- AB2 Site-Specific Performance Project (TP11420)
- AB1 Studio Theatre Project (TP11120)
- AB2 Theatre Production Project (TP24940)
- AB1 Theatre in Context 1 (TP11020)
Tutor
Margaret's area of research is Performance and Disability with a particular interest in work made by and with people with learning disabilities. Aberystwyth based dance-theatre company Cyrff Ystwyth form the focus of this enquiry and they produce new work every year at Aberystwyth University.
. Disability and performance. Director/producer for Cyrff Ystwyth Dance Company, who participate in long term practice based research project.
Four Movements / Pedwar Symudiad. Ames, Margaret (Author). 2025.
Research output: Non-textual form › Performance
Gesture, Dance, and Learning Disability. / Ames, Margaret.
In: Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, Vol. 19, No. 3, 12.08.2025, p. 315-330.
In: Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, Vol. 19, No. 3, 12.08.2025, p. 315-330.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Unwriting interpretations and inscriptions of lack and re-writing capacity through shared embodied action in dance theatre. / Ames, Margaret.
2025. Paper presented at 17th Biennial Conference of International Society for Ethnology and Folklore 2025, Aberdeen, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
2025. Paper presented at 17th Biennial Conference of International Society for Ethnology and Folklore 2025, Aberdeen, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
Gestural Choreographies: Moving Between Bodies. / Ames, Margaret.
In: Didaskalia, Vol. 2024, No. 179, 29.02.2024, p. 165-187.
In: Didaskalia, Vol. 2024, No. 179, 29.02.2024, p. 165-187.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
'In My Younger Days'. Ames, Margaret (Author). 2024. Aberystwyth University.
Research output: Non-textual form › Performance