Approaches to the futures of research. Part 1 : (Based on the conference keynote, British Association of Dramatherapists Conference 2011, Measure for measures, researching, re-viewing and re-framing dramatherapy in practice)

This article, delivered in two parts, identifies and examines factors affecting the development of dramatherapy research. Drawing on qualitative research with Dramatherapists in a number of countries, it identifies three related challenges as a way of responding to the question, ‘What is the next developmental phase of dramatherapy research?’ The three challenges are: ‘impact’; ‘reviewing dramatherapy’s relationship with qualitative and quantitative methodologies’; and ‘in depth: increasing the field’s research capacity