This article builds on existing definitions and classification systems of research-based theatre to offer a way to define subgenres within the field. In order to identify similarities and particularities of theatrical performances based on research, the authors first consider definitions from practitioners working within the academy and those creating theatre for the general public. After reviewing these existing traditions and definitions, the authors delineate a spectrum of research-based theatre. This spectrum is based on two defining continua: the research continuum, which distinguishes among many types of research used to inform research-based theatre, and the performance continuum, which distinguishes among different kinds of performances, audiences, and purposes of a given research-based theatre piece. The spectrum of research-based theatre formed by combining these continua may assist practitioners in determining and honoring the goals and outcomes of their own work, while not making unnecessary comparisons with those working toward different goals and outcomes.

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This article reflects on a pilot project undertaken at the University of BritishColumbia, Canada, by an interdisciplinary team of researchers and lay and professional artists. The project was an experiment in the use of arts-based methods as a means of disseminating research findings from a five-year funded study entitled 'Centring the Human Subject in Health Research: Understanding the Meaning and Experience of Research Participation'. Through the creation, performance and/or display of found poetry, drama, song and visual arts, more than 50 researchers and artists collectively presented the experiences of human subjects involved in many types of health research. By way of detailed discussion, this article explores the practice and process of interdisciplinarity as it applies to arts-based health research. KeyWorDs arts-based research drama found poetry health research knowledge dissemination performed research Darquise Lafrenière | susan M. Cox … 244Special attention is given to identifying ethical and other challenges facing researchers and artists engaged in using the arts to disseminate research findings.

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Research-based theatre (RbT) is an innovative research methodology that draws on theatre practices and conventions to engage in and share research. It is an inherently collaborative and relational methodology, inviting research participants, artists and researchers to take part in embodied data generation, analysis and knowledge-exchange activities. This methodology encompasses writing, rehearsing and performing a research-based monologue, scene or play. In this article, the authors share three recent examples from interdisciplinary projects where researchers and artists engaged with different communities to dramatize data using an RbT methodological approach. To add to literature in the field, the authors consider their experiences leading RbT projects in three disparate fields: theatrical, social and therapeutic. The authors explore the question of how RbT transforms relationships and how relationships transform RbT.

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