Dr Lesley Mickel
Dr Mickel is co-convenor of the UHI Humanities and Arts Research Cluster, and Research Enhancement Lead for Literature, Creative Practice, and Health at UHI Inverness - leading on strategy to foster interdisciplinary research and capacity building in the Arts and Humanities in a tertiary context.
Her doctoral thesis was undertaken at Strathclyde University and explored court theatre in the early modern period. Current research activities encompass early modern court theatre and literature, creative practice pedagogies and drama in healthcare contexts.
In addition to her role as Programme Leader for BA (Hons) Drama and Production at UHI Inverness, she teaches on the BA (Hons) Literature degree. She has extensive experience of curriculum development, and under her guidance Drama at UHI Inverness has developed a distinctive ethos of socially embedded performance, partnership working and the holistic integration of critical and creative approaches to teaching, research and creative practice.
Current projects:
- Medieval and Early Modern Court Theatre and the Construction of Scotland (Oxford University Press, Early Modern Literary Geographies Series)
- Creativity in the Classroom, a knowledge exchange and capacity building project focusing on creative practice pedagogy and research.
- Caring Conversations: drama ethnography and palliative care. Partnering with UHI Nursing Education and Centre for Health Science.
- Research Supervision
- Supervising MRes and PhD students working across Creative Practice, Literature, History, Sustainability, and Northern Studies.
Research groups and professional affiliations:
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
- Member of The Society for Renaissance Studies
- Member of the Theatre and Performance Research Association
- Member of The International Federation of Theatre Research
Recent publications:
- From Bourgeois Wife to Renaissance Monarch: the royal entertainments and imperial ambition of Mary Stuart, 1561-1566, The Review of Scottish Culture, 27, 2016
- Theatricalisation at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, 1520, Theatricalisierung, (Heidelberg: Universitat Verlag, 2017)
- Encountering Macpherson’s Poetry: a case study in transmedialisation, Transmedialiserung, (Heidelberg: Universitat Verlag, 2018)
- Our Hielandmen’: Scots in Court Entertainments at home and abroad 1507-1616, The Journal of The Society of Renaissance Studies, 33, 2, 2019, pp.185-203.
- Performance Practice as Research, Learning and Teaching. Teaching in Higher Education, 2021
- Performing Power and Theatricalisation at The Field of Cloth of Gold 1520. In A. Musson (Ed.), Royal Journeys in Early Modern Europe: Progresses, Palaces and Panache Routledge, 2022