The Department of Drama combines its expertise in live art and socially engaged practice to offer new approaches to medical humanities and the history of emotions. We are committed to embedding arts-based methodologies and radical performance practices within medical cultures, offering new frames, approaches and modes of intervention through major partnerships and collaborations.

Initiatives

• Centre for the History of Emotions directed by Toffany Watt Smith
• Indigenous Research Methods by Paul Heritage (People’s Palace Projects)
• Youth Resilience Research Unit

Programmes

• MSc Creative Arts and Mental Health

Partnerships

• Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry

Projects

• Far Apart UK by Paul Heritage (People’s Palace Projects)
• Far Apart but Close at Heart Latin America by Paul Heritage (People’s Palace Projects)
• Greenscreening by Lois Weaver (Split Britches)
• Mad Hearts Conference presented by MSc Creative Arts and Mental Health
• The History of Emotions TED Talk by Tiffany Watt Smith
• The Unwell by Martin O’Brien
• Until the Last Breath is Breathed (Tate Britain) by Martin O’Brien
• Zombie Time Martin O’Brien

Publications

• On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock by Tiffany Watt Smith
• Schadenfreude: The Joy of Another’s Misfortune by Tiffany Watt Smith 
• The Book of Human Emotions by Tiffany Watt Smith