Lecturer
School of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
01752 636700
kmassey-chase@marjon.ac.uk
Dr. Kate Massey-Chase has over a decade of professional practice as a freelance creative arts practitioner, working in applied theatre and education. Kate has worked across a diverse range of community settings, including prisons, addiction recovery services, mental health services, with young refugees, adults with Parkinson’s, and in schools. She is also an experienced facilitator of both sex & relationship education and intercultural dialogue workshops.
Alongside lecturing at Marjon, Kate continues her professional practice, as well as lecturing at other universities, including the University of Exeter.
Kate’s research interests are in applied theatre and socially engaged creative practices. Her doctoral research examined how applied theatre practice could support young people in the transition between Child & Adolescent and Adult Mental Health Services. In 2019, she presented some of this research to the All Party Parliamentary Group for Arts, Health and Wellbeing’s roundtable on in the House of Lords.
She is also interested in different research methodologies, including autoethnography and practice-based research.
Books:
McKean, A. & Massey-Chase, K. (eds) (2019) , Bristol: Intellect. Nominated for the .
Articles:
Massey-Chase, K. (2018) ‘, Perspectives in Public Health, 138:1, 16-17.
Book reviews:
Massey-Chase, K. (2019) ‘Review: Web of Performance: An Ensemble Workbook, Monica Prendergast and Will Weigler’, Applied Theatre Research, 7: 1, 131-139.
Unpublished conference papers:
(2018) ‘The Vulnerability and Potency of Autoethnographic Research in Applied Theatre’, Applied and Social Theatre Working Group, TaPRA 2018, University of Aberystwyth.
(2018) ‘The Stories We’re Treated By: Identity Narratives in Mental Health Transition Care’, Practice-as-Research Conference 2018, University of British Columbia & University of Exeter.
(2017) ‘Recovery or Regeneration: reconceptualising the impact of Applied Theatre in mental health contexts’, Applied and Social Theatre Working Group, TaPRA 2017, University of Salford.
Editorial positions:
I was Strand Editor for Media and Performance and Co-Editor for Creative Content in 2017-2018 for , a new journal targeted at academic and non-academic audiences, created by Humanities students from across the institutions (available in local Waterstones, London Review of Books and universities in the South West).
Co-convenor of the (Theatre and Performance Research Association).