Over the last decade or so our work has increasingly become part of academic research projects, funded by a range of bodies including the AHRC and GCRF. Often inter-disciplinary, and involving international partners, our work as mentors, project partners, and co-researchers has helped to create a wide range of outputs including book chapters, project reports, journal articles, and blogs.
Grounded literacies: The power of listening to, telling and performing community stories
Paper for Literacy Journal, July 2010.
The Routledge Companion to Performance and Medicine
Making a drama out of a crisis: using theatre to co-research mental health literacy in Kerala. Book chapter. Published February, 2024.
Idioms of resilience: Mental health and migration in India
Paper for the International Journal of Social Psychiatry based on our work in Pune. Published, August 31, 2021.
Breaking Bread: a community cooking project with refugee families (ebook)
In 2022 we worked with The Institute for Policy and Engagement at the University of Nottingham, the Nottingham and Notts Refugee Forum, and Ignite Futures. This ebook documents the project.
Caravan of Dreams
A series of essays for the International Community Arts Festival (ICAF) in response to a road trip across the Netherlands in 2014 documenting community arts projects.
GenViR Network India:UK (project partners)
Website for this ‘highly collaborative, cross-disciplinary, international network of scholars, NGOs, and communities focused on co-creating solutions to the effects of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in India’.
Applied Theatre Research paper
A systematic review of applied theatre practice in the Indian context of mental health, resilience and wellbeing. Published December, 2019.
Global Challenge Research Fund project report
An Exploration of Mental Health and Resilience Narratives of Migrants in India Using Community Theatre Methodology.
The Routledge International Handbook of the Arts and Education
Arts in the community as a place-making event. Book chapter. Published January, 2014..
Performing Impact
The performing impact project was a scoping study funded by the AHRC, under its Connected Communities programme. We were part of the discussions and workshops that were held as a part of this and images from our work can be seen throughout the blog.
Representing the Forgotten Estate
Paper for Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 2012.
International Journal of Social Psychiatry
Stigma and mental health problems in an Indian context. Perceptions of people with mental disorders in urban, rural and tribal areas of Kerala. March, 2023.
Thinking Ahead Study for Loros Hospice
Audio stories created for am NHS training package which explored with patients and families from diverse ethnic backgrounds their experiences and decisions concerning the future and planning for deterioration and dying.
War and its Aftermath
Book chapter (p. 42) on our ‘In Flux’ project for the ‘Beyond Commemoration: Community,
Collaboration and Legacies of the First World War’ series. 2020.
Thinking ahead about medical treatments in advanced illness
A qualitative study of barriers and enablers in end-of-life care planning with patients and families from ethnically diverse backgrounds. Health and Social Care Delivery Research journal, June 2023.