In this episode, Prof Ian Sabroe and Dr Dieter Declercq talk with Prof Nicola Shaughnessy about her inspiring work and many interdisciplinary collaborations with artists, health professionals, and scholars in humanities and social science.
Nicola Shaughnessy is Professor of Performance at the University of Kent. Throughout her career, she has worked across subject boundaries, with publications in literature, film and social science as well as performance studies and theatre history. She founded Kent’s Research Centre for Cognition, Kinesthetics and Performance (2010-2018), and is co-editor of Methuen’s Performance and Science series. Nicola is currently collaborating with psychologists and neuroscientists through projects using creative and participatory research practices to explore neurodiversity and mental health. She was Principal Investigator for the AHRC project, Imagining Autism, and follow-on project Autism Reimagined. She’s currently leading another AHRC project, Playing A/Part, a project investigating the experience of autistic women, girls and marginalised genders through participatory arts practices.
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