Dr. Sophie Hope

Key details:

Department:
Production Arts
Role:
Lecturer in Socially Engaged Practice
Dr Sophie Hope

Areas of expertise:
Socially engaged practice; cultural policy; labour conditions; practice-based research; research methodologies; community-based research; art and activism; art and politics; collaborative art practices; evaluation

Profile:
Sophie Hope is a practice-based researcher and teacher. Her work is often developed with others through the format of devised workshops exploring subjects such as art and politics, physical and emotional experiences of work, stories of socially engaged art and the ethics of employability in the creative industries. Sophie carried out her doctorate at Birkbeck, University of London in cultural democracy and the commissioning of art to effect social change from 2006-11. She was an independent curator for 10 years, working locally and internationally to develop a collaborative, socially engaged curatorial practice. On completing her PhD she worked as a full-time academic, developing her practice-based research and teaching on the MA Arts Policy and Management at Birkbeck from 2010-2023. She has been in post as Lecturer in Socially Engaged Practices at Guildhall School of Music and Drama since February 2024 where she is co-developing the Guildhall De-Centre for Socially Engaged Practice and Research and teaching on the MA Collaborative Performance Making. 

Qualifications:
PhD, PGCEHE, MA, BA

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Recent Research Outputs

Spikey, Rough, and Relational: The Projectyness of Participatory Art

Hope, S., & Mulhall, H. (2027). Spikey, Rough, and Relational: The Projectyness of Participatory Art. transcript Verlag.

2027

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How to build a staffroom: research into carers’ experiences and needs for care and rest at work. In Cultures of Creative Health

Hope, S., & Richards, J. (2025). How to build a staffroom: research into carers’ experiences and needs for care and rest at work. In Cultures of Creative Health. University of Huddersfield Press. https://unipress.hud.ac.uk/plugins/books/37/

2025

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Allowing a conversation to go nowhere to get somewhere: intra-personal spatial care and placemaking' In: 'Trauma Informed Placemaking'

Hope, S., Labern, S., Gordon, R., Courage, C. (Ed.), & McKeown, A. (Ed.) (2024). Allowing a conversation to go nowhere to get somewhere: intra-personal spatial care and placemaking' In: 'Trauma Informed Placemaking'. Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003371533-37/allowing-conversation-go-nowhere-get-somewhere-sally-labern-sophie-hope-rebecca-gordon

2024

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Whispers and Echoes: Interpreting social arts practices across time and place.

Hope, S., Granato, P., Mulhall, H., Lorger, A., Main, A. M., & Remere, S. (2024). Whispers and Echoes: Interpreting social arts practices across time and place.

2024

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Cards on the Table: Critical reflections on a participatory research method

Hope, S., & Mulhall, H. (2024). Cards on the Table: Critical reflections on a participatory research method. Conjunctions, 11(1), 1 - 14. https://doi.org/10.2478/tjcp-2023-0008

2024

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Evaluation Report for Art Beyond Participation – BE PART

Hope, S., & Mulhall, H. (2023). Evaluation Report for Art Beyond Participation – BE PART.

2023

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Manual Labours Manual #5 The Multiplying Staffroom (Prototype 2)

Hope, S., & Richards, J. (2023). Manual Labours Manual #5 The Multiplying Staffroom (Prototype 2). https://manuallabours.co.uk/todo/manual-labours-manual-5-prototype-2/

2023

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Affective experiments: card games, blind dates and dinner parties. In 'Affective Experimentation Anthology'

Hope, S., Timm Knudsen, B. (Ed.), Krogh , M. (Ed.), & Stage, C. (Ed.) (2022). Affective experiments: card games, blind dates and dinner parties. In 'Affective Experimentation Anthology'. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96272-2_11

2022

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Book Review: Lure of the Social: Encounters with Contemporary Artists

Hope, S. (2022). Book Review: Lure of the Social: Encounters with Contemporary Artists. Cultural Sociology, 16(4), 566-568. https://doi.org/10.1177/17499755221083571

2022

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We thought we were going to change the world! Socially engaged art as cruel optimism. In 'The Failures of Public Art and Participation'

Hope, S., Cartiere, C. (Ed.), & Schrag, A. (Ed.) (2022). We thought we were going to change the world! Socially engaged art as cruel optimism. In 'The Failures of Public Art and Participation'. Routledge.

2022

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