Professor Nicola Shaughnessy

About

I am Professor of Performance with research and teaching specialisms in contemporary performance, autobiography, applied and socially engaged theatre. I founded Kent’s Research Centre for Cognition, Kinesthetics and Performance, led the AHRC funded project “Imagining Autism” and I am co-editor of Methuen’s Performance and Science series. Externally, I was Chair for the QAA Subject Benchmarking Review for Drama, Dance and Performing Arts (2014-15) and I am a member of the AHRC Peer Review College (academic, international, strategic, knowledge exchange).

Staff profile

https://www.kent.ac.uk/arts/staff-profiles/drama/shaughnessy_n.html