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Dr Sheila McCormick's Outputs (44)

Can We Talk About Death? Adaptation of Autobiographical Performance and Participant Response in the Development of Performance to Enhance Conversations Around Death and Dying (2025)
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The Can We Talk About Death? Adaptation of Autobiographical Performance and Participant Response in the Development of Performance to Enhance Conversations Around Death and Dying project happened in 2023 at the University of Salford with a test perfo... Read More about Can We Talk About Death? Adaptation of Autobiographical Performance and Participant Response in the Development of Performance to Enhance Conversations Around Death and Dying.

Reframing the Discourse – How Effective Youth Theatre Recruitment Practice Can Minimise Engagement Barriers for Priority Participants (2024)
Thesis

Organisations who deliver youth theatre must consider not only how they recruit
participants but who they recruit to ensure children and young people most in need of
pervasive skill development benefit from funded extra-curricular provision. Drama... Read More about Reframing the Discourse – How Effective Youth Theatre Recruitment Practice Can Minimise Engagement Barriers for Priority Participants.

What can we learn from play? A comparative analysis of creative play and ‘playing along’ in dementia care environments (2023)
Journal Article
McCormick, S. (2023). What can we learn from play? A comparative analysis of creative play and ‘playing along’ in dementia care environments. Applied Theatre Research, 11(2), 103-117. https://doi.org/10.1386/atr_00079_1

In this article, I explore play in dementia care settings, specifically two types: creative play (play that engages creativity and imagination) and ‘playing along’. Acknowledging debates on truth-telling in dementia care, I consider how engagement-fo... Read More about What can we learn from play? A comparative analysis of creative play and ‘playing along’ in dementia care environments.

Conversations on death and dying: exploring performance as a prompt. (2023)
Journal Article
McCormick, S. (2023). Conversations on death and dying: exploring performance as a prompt. Palliative Care and Social Practice, 17, 26323524231209059. https://doi.org/10.1177/26323524231209059

BackgroundDeath is inevitable, yet for some, conversations around death remain difficult. The stigmatisation of death amongst some cultures has a negative impact with studies showing societies least likely to discuss end of life openly remain the low... Read More about Conversations on death and dying: exploring performance as a prompt..

Documentary Theatre in Britain and Ireland, 2000-2010: and overview (2023)
Presentation / Conference
McCormick, S. (2023, June). Documentary Theatre in Britain and Ireland, 2000-2010: and overview

Theatre often takes an oppositional stance when there is a need to confront directly the political circumstances occurring at the time of production. Facts and information are at a premium at times of upheaval and, as a result, documentary forms tend... Read More about Documentary Theatre in Britain and Ireland, 2000-2010: and overview.

2022: Can We Talk About Death? Autobiography and Connection: A study of the adaptation of socially engaged practice for a public audiences (2023)
Presentation / Conference
McCormick, S. (2023, January). 2022: Can We Talk About Death? Autobiography and Connection: A study of the adaptation of socially engaged practice for a public audiences

Applied Theatre practice often balances successful engagement with evidence of impact, particularly in a research and funding landscape where impact is considered (by such bodies as the UK Research Excellence Framework and Knowledge Exchange Framewor... Read More about 2022: Can We Talk About Death? Autobiography and Connection: A study of the adaptation of socially engaged practice for a public audiences.

Performance, Death and Dinner: A Study of the Efficacy of Performance to Encourage Conversations around Death and Dying (2021)
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Delivered at the 2021 International Federation for Theatre Research Conference (postponed from 2020), at the National University of Ireland, Galway, this paper explores my 2019 Practice as Research project Performance, Death and Dinner: Autobiography... Read More about Performance, Death and Dinner: A Study of the Efficacy of Performance to Encourage Conversations around Death and Dying.

Performance, death and dinner : autobiography and commensality, prompts for conversations around death and dying (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper explores the origins, development and outcomes of my 2019 Practice as Research project entitled Death, Dinner and Performance: A Study of the Efficacy of Performance to Enhance Conversations Around Death and Dying. The project brought toge... Read More about Performance, death and dinner : autobiography and commensality, prompts for conversations around death and dying.