Dr Sheila McCormick

School of Arts, Media and Creative Technologies

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Senior Lecturer

Biography

Sheila McCormick is a Senior Lecturer in Performance. Originally training as an Actor, Sheila holds a M.Phil in Irish Theatre and Film from Trinity College Dublin and PhD in English (specialising in Documentary Theatre) from the University of Galway.

She has varied research interest including Applied and Socially Engaged Practice, Political Theatre and Documentary Theatre. Her most recent research projects include an examination of play in dementia care environments (https://doi.org/10.1386/atr_00079_1) and the Practice as Research Can We Talk About Death project which engaged Practice as Research as a method to interrogate autobiographical performance and commensality in conversations around death and dying (https://doi.org/10.17866/rd.salford.13265432.v1).

She recently formed the Applied and Socially Engaged Network in the School of Arts, Media and Creative Technologies and is a founding member of the University of Salford Irish Studies network. She is currently researching Contemporary Documentary Theatre and will be disseminating that research in an article entitled Theatre(s) of the Real in the Twenty-First Century: From Documentary to Verbatim to Testimonial and Beyond with Dr Luke Lamont. She is also researching contemporary Irish diaspora experience in Britain with Prof Caroline Magennis and will be disseminating that research in Practice as Research and journal form in the near future.

She welcomes enquiries about PhD study in any area of theatre and performance practice.

Areas of Research

Applied Theatre
Socially Engaged Practice
Irish Studies
Performance and Health
Political Theatre
Documentary theatre

Areas of Supervision

Documentary Theatre
Applied and Socially Engaged Arts Practice
Contemporary Performance
Political Theatre
Irish Theatre
Theatre and Performance Practice

Teaching Qualifications and Recognitions Publications

Teaching

Undergraduate Teaching
Performance Skills
Careers and Professional Practice
Acting and Recorded Media
Theatre Project
Practical Research Project
Theatre Directing (Module Leader)
Performance In Context (Module Leader)
Theatre and Communities (Module Leader)

Postgraduate Teaching
MA Contemporary Performance
PhD Supervision

Qualifications and Recognitions

Qualifications

  • PhD,

    2007 - 2011

  • M. Phil Irish Theatre and Film

    2005 - 2006

  • MA Drama and Theatre Studies

    2004 - 2005

  • BA Acting Studies, Arden School of Theatre (Awarded by Manchester University)

    1999 - 2001

Recognitions

  • University of Salford Irish Studies Network

  • Applied and Socially Engaged Working Group

  • Polite Rebellion Board Member

  • Documentary Theatre working group

  • Key Note: Creative Ageing Conference, Griffith University, Brisbane, New South Wales

Publications

Publications

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