Skinner, Dr. Amy

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Name:

Skinner, Dr. Amy

Email:

a.skinner@yorksj.ac.uk

Department:

Institute for Social Justice

Biography

Expertise:

Co-production in research, Mental Health, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Visual art and stage design, Theatre and Performance, Puppetry and puppet making

Job title:

Associate Professor of Co-Production in Mental Health Research

Biography:

I am a senior academic and arts-based researcher with a specialist interest in co-produced research and evaluation in mental health contexts. I am particularly interested in work with community, voluntary and social enterprise organisations, and in children’s and young people’s experiences of mental health systems. I enjoy developing creative methods for research and evaluation, drawing on my extensive experience as a theatre maker, storyteller and community arts practitioner. My current projects focus on co-production, mental health and creative practices, and neurodivergence.

Qualifications:

Ph.D. Drama (University of Hull) MSc. Child and Adolescent Mental Health (Leeds Beckett University) PG.Dip. in Research Management (University of Hull) BA. hons. Drama (University of Hull)

My Latest

Skinner, Amy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0790-741X (2018) Directing Theatrical Space : Meyerhold's Reconstruction of the Theatre. In: Great European Stage Directors, volume 2: Meyerhold, Piscator, Brecht. Methuen Drama
Skinner, Amy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0790-741X (2023) Puppetify! A creative advocacy and wellbeing project. University of Hull.
Skinner, Amy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0790-741X (2017) Performance Translation: Digitization, desire, intention and interpretation in photographic documentation. In: Documenting Performance: The context and processes of digital curation and archiving. Bloomsbury
Skinner, Amy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0790-741X and Paxton, Naomi (2017) Recoveries: Nikolai Evreinov, V kulisakh dushi (1921). Keywords: A Journal of Cultural Materialism.
Skinner, Amy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0790-741X (2022) Looking at Meyerhold's Unseen Theatre. In: The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold. Routledge
Skinner, Amy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0790-741X (2018) Spotlights and Searchlights. Culture Matters.
Skinner, Amy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0790-741X (2017) Metaphor, Mythology and Metonymy: Russian Scenography in the Yeltsin era. In: Aronson, Arnold, (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Scenography. Routledge
Geddes, Emma, Harford, Therese, Hill, Darren, O'Keefe, Rebecca and Skinner, Amy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0790-741X (2023) Evaluation of the Early Help services provided as a part of the Cluster Collaborative in Leeds. Project Report. What Works for Children's Social Care/Early Intervention Foundation.
McDonagh, Briony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3078-139X, Brookes, Edward, Smith, Kate, Worthen, Hannah, Coulthard, Tom J., Hughes, Gill, Mottram, Stewart, Skinner, Amy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0790-741X and Chamberlain, Jack (2023) Learning histories, participatory methods and creative engagement for climate resilience. Journal of Historical Geography, 82. pp. 91-97.
Skinner, Amy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0790-741X (2015) Surfaces, depths and hypercubes: Meyerholdian scenography and the fourth dimension. Theatre and Performance Design, 1 (3). pp. 204-219.

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1	Learning histories, participatory methods and creative engagement for climate resilience	15
2	Riding the Waves: Biomechanics in Britain	10
3	More than the Sum of their Parts: Ensemble in the Theatre of Vsevolod Meyerhold	10
4	Recoveries: Nikolai Evreinov, V kulisakh dushi (1921)	10
5	Metaphor, Mythology and Metonymy: Russian Scenography in the Yeltsin era	10
6	Evaluation of the Early Help services provided as a part of the Cluster Collaborative in Leeds	9	10
7	Directing Theatrical Space : Meyerhold's Reconstruction of the Theatre	9
8	Performance Translation: Digitization, desire, intention and interpretation in photographic documentation	9
9	Looking at Meyerhold's Unseen Theatre	8
10	Meyerhold and the Cubists	7