International Health Humanities Network Membership

Nicola Shaughnessy is Professor of Performance at the University of Kent. She has been Head of Drama at three UK Universities and chaired the 2015 subject benchmarking committee (Dance Drama and Performance). Her research involves interdisciplinary collaborations across arts, health and science through creative and participatory research methods. Her current work explores neurodivergence, autism and mental health through participatory performance. She has led three AHRC funded projects exploring autism through drama and interactive media. Her publications include essays in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (2013), the Wiley Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology (2017) and The Cognitive Humanities (2016). She is the author of Applying Performance: Live Art, Socially Engaged Theatre and Affective Practice (Palgrave, 2012) and the edited collections Affective Performance and Cognitive Science: Body, Brain and Being (Methuen, 2013) and Performing Psychologies: Imagination, Creativity and Dramas of the Mind (2018, with Philip Barnard). She is co-editor for Methuen’s Performance and Science series.