PUBLICATIONS

2006

In 2006 Helen's paper Telling Tales: Performance Poets' Accounts of Why they Perform was presented and published as part of the 2006 Psychology Postgraduate Conference at the University of the West of England. 

2007

In March 2007 the abstract for Helen's paper The Quiet Revolution of Poetry Slam: The Sustainability of Cultural Capital in the Light of Changing Artistic Conventions was published as part of The European Sociological Associations' Sociology for the Arts Conference in Lüneburg, Germany.  An abridged draft of this paper was published in the same year in the National Association of Gifted Children's regular newsletter, and reprinted in Gray Matters.  You can access the Gray Matters copy here. 

In July 2007 Helen published a two part article about her experience of researching poetry slam, entitled Studying Slam, on the Metaroar website.  The article can be accessed here


2008

Gregory, H. The Quiet Revolution of Poetry Slam: The Sustainability of Cultural Capital in the Light of Changing Artistic Conventions. Ethnography and Education, Vol. 3 (1): 61-71.  Link to a pre-proof copy of the paper here.

---. (Re)presenting Ourselves: Art, Identity and Status in U.K. Poetry Slam. Oral Tradition, Vol. 23 (2): 201-217.  Link to this paper here.

2011

---.  Using Poetry to Improve the Quality of Life and Care for People with Dementia: A Qualitative Analysis of the Try to Remember Programme.  Arts & Health.  Vol. 3 (2): 160-172.

2012

Gregory, H., Hayes, K., Jones, V. & Opher, S. Using Poetry in Dementia Care: Four Voices, One Journey.  Journal of Dementia Care, Jan/Feb: 27-30.

In Press

---. Poetry Performances on the Page and Stage. In S. Gingell & W. Roy (Eds.) Cultural Production at the Interface of Oral the Written and Other Verbal Media. Toronto: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

Gregory, H., Hayes, K., Jones, V. & Opher, S. Issues and Impacts of Poetic Interventions in Dementia.  Journal of Dementia Care.

Accepted for Publication

Gregory, H. Prospecting with the 'Poetry Pioneers': Youth Poetry Slam and the U.K.'s WordCup.  In, B. Marsh & J. Vernon (Eds.) Poetry Worlds.

Fiction
To read more about publication of Helen's poetry and short stories, go to the Poetry page on this website.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2006

--. January 2006.  Telling Tales: Performance Poets' Accounts of Why they Perform.  University of the West of England Psychology Postgraduate Conference, Bristol, England.  (Awarded the prize for best presentation of the conference.)

---. July 2006.  Research Writes: Applying Social Scientific Methods to Creative Writing Research.  Bath Spa University Conference for the PhD in Creative Writing, Bath, England (Invited paper)

2007

--. March 2007.  The Quiet Revolution of Poetry Slam: The Sustainability of Cultural Capital in the Light of Changing Artistic Conventions.  The European Sociological Association's Sociology for the Arts Conference, Lüneburg, Germany

---. May 2007.  Pen Pals: Hegemony and Counter-hegemony in North American Poetry Slam Discourses.  Humanities and Social Sciences Postgraduate Conference,University of Exeter, Exeter, England 

--. May 2007.  The Quiet Revolution of Poetry Slam: The Sustainability of Cultural Capital in the Light of Changing Artistic Conventions.  University of Exeter Mini Arts Symposium, Exeter, England

--. March 2008.  Paper presented at University of Exeter's Truth in Arts workshop series, Exeter, England

--. March 2008.  Performing Discourses on the 'Social' and 'Natural': Authenticity, Politics and Entertainment in U.S. and U.K. Poetry Slam.  British Sociological Association Annual Conference, Warwick, England.  (Paper also highlighted in conference publicity materials)

--. June 2008.  Selling Slam: Marketing Poetry at the Interface of the Oral and the Written.  The Oral, the Written, and Other Verbal Media, International Conference and Festival, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

--. July 2008.  Paper presented at British Sociological Association Theory and Study Group Conference, 1968: Impact and Implications, London, England.  (Helen was also on the organising committee for this highly successful conference, which featured plenaries from Lynne Segal, Ken Plummer, Paul Gilroy and Patricia Hill Collins, amongst others, and attracted international attention.) 

--. December 2008.  Whose Biography is it Anyway? The Performance of Identity in U.S. Poetry Slam.  European Sociological Association's Biographies Network Conference, Krakow, Poland.  (Also on conference organising committee)

2009

--. April 2009.  Studying Social Processes at the University of Bath: Poetry Slam and the Discursive Performance of Identity.  Annual British Psychological Association Conference, Brighton, England.  (Helen represented the University of Bath at this conference.)

--. September 2009.  Art in Action: Exploring Poetry Slam with Ethnographic Discourse Analysis.  European Sociological Association Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.  (This paper is presented in the form of a short film/photo montage, which you can watch here.  Please be patient as this may take a few seconds to load.)

--. October 2009.  Researching Poetry Slam.  European Poetry Slam Conference, Berlin, Germany.  (Invited plenary)

2010

--. June 2010.  Performing Poetry's Publics: Local and Global Practice
Performing Publics: Performance Studies International, Toronto, Canada.  (Panel discussion)

--. September 2010.  Art Inside Out: On Being a Poet Studying Slam.  8th International Qualitative Research Conference, Bournemouth University, England.  (Helen hosted and performed poetry at this event.)

Gregory, H. & Opher, S.  November 2010.  Try to Remember: A Preliminary Evaluation.  General Practitioners' Summit, Cheltenham, England.

Presentations Pending

Watch this space!