Dr Sheila McCormick
School of Arts, Media and Creative Technologies
Current positions
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).
Most recently, she set up an Applied and Socially Engaged Network in the School of Arts, Media and Creative Technologies and is currently working on an Edited Collection with fellow academics from Galway University Dr Charlotte McIvor and Dr Luke Lamont entitled Theatre(s) of the Real in the Twenty-First Century: From Documentary to Verbatim to Testimonial and Beyond.
She welcomes enquiries about PhD study in any area of theatre and performance practice.
Areas of Research
Applied Theatre
Socially Engaged Practice
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
Programme Leader BA Theatre and Performance Practice
Undergraduate Teaching
Acting Methods 1 (Module Leader)
Theatre Directing (Module Leader)
Theatre Project
Practical Research Project
Theatre and Communities (Module Leader)
Postgraduate Teaching
MA Contemporary Performance
PhD Supervision
Qualifications
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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
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Irish Studies Working Group
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Applied and Socially Engaged Working Group
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Board Member
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Documentary Theatre working group
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Key Note: Creative Ageing Conference, Griffith University, Brisbane, New South Wales
Publications
- Conversations on death and dying: exploring performance as a prompt.
- Can We Talk About Death? Adaptation of Autobiographical Performance and Participant Response in the Development of Performance to Enhance Conversations Around Death and Dying
- What can we learn from play? A comparative analysis of creative play and ‘playing along’ in dementia care environments
- Applied theatre : creative ageing
- Performance, Death and Dinner: A Study of the Efficacy of Performance to Encourage Conversations around Death and Dying