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ItemResonating voices: the joy of hearing and being heard Hearing impaired young adults as vocal trainers( 2016)This thesis examines the creation of public voice workshops for young deaf people by a group of hearing impaired young adults experienced in actor vocal training. The researcher takes on the roles of actor vocal trainer and researcher and engages the hearing impaired adults as participant researchers on a project called Let It Out. At the heart of the thesis, lies the complex relationship between the skill development of the actor vocal training techniques and the group’s ability to authorise, embody and transfer these techniques as deaf vocal trainers. The methodology of participatory action research through performative enquiry is used to analyse the pedagogy and the impact of the actor vocal training techniques. The study documents an approach to applying actor vocal training techniques, which enables a group of hearing impaired young adults to co-construct knowledge about the voice. The research demonstrates that through the embodied and performative pedagogy of actor vocal training, ensemble practice and kinaesthetic learning, a group of hearing impaired young adults becomes a self-empowering community of practice with a shared sense of vocal identity. The thesis proposes that this kind of embodied and performative pedagogy reconfigures the concept of what is legitimate knowledge of the non-hearing voice when it is enacted through the lived body of a hearing impaired person.