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Alex Mermikides

Dr Alex Mermikides

D'Oyly Carte Senior Lecturer in Arts and Health

Biography

Alex is the D'Oyly Carte Senior Lecturer in Arts and Health, based in the GKT School of Medical Education. The D'Oyly Carte position aims to enhance encounters between patients and healthcare professionals through embedding arts and humanities in medical education. Alex contributes to teaching and curriculum development in the Values-Based Clinical Practice theme of the medical degree programme. Alex's research interest is in contemporary performance and how it relates to medicine. Her recent publications include Performance and the Medical Body (co-edited with Gianna Bouchard) and Performance, Medicine and the Human and she is currently working on the Routledge Companion for Performance and Medicine. Her research also involves devising performances about medical experience with her theatre company, Chimera, as well as developing performance-based approaches to communication skills education. Her work has featured in The Guardian, Times Higher Educational Supplement, Nature Immunology and on This Week (BBC Radio 4).

Teaching

Course Leader:

  • Medical Humanities

Course Teacher:

  • Medical Humanities

Research

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Performance@King's

Performance@King’s is a cross-college performance and theatre research and teaching grouping.

News

King's lends expertise to new arts and mental health project

Medical Humanities researchers have partnered with Tamasha, a London-based theatre production company, on a new project designed to address ongoing mental...

Tamasha

Deep dive into the 2023 King's Artists Programme

As this year's King’s Artists programme concludes, discover more about this year's 6-month research and development collaborations, supported by King's Culture

King's Artists Final Composite

Six new collaborations launched as part of King's Artists programme

Artists-in-residence will collaborate with academics to explore imaginative approaches to research.

composite image 6 tiles representing king's artists projects, from top left to bottom right a wooden box, a pro-choice protest, illustration of soundwaves, anatomy drawing, cyanotype portrait and an artwork with green plants

Events

09May

Intersections between Humanities and Science

Tthe third lecture in the collaborative initiative under Medical Humanities between King’s & TMC, Mumbai

Please note: this event has passed.

29Mar

Drama of Dissection: Research Sharing

A talk discussing medical students’ feelings about dissection, featuring puppets and magic.

Please note: this event has passed.

Research

masks on stalks 780x440
Performance@King's

Performance@King’s is a cross-college performance and theatre research and teaching grouping.

News

King's lends expertise to new arts and mental health project

Medical Humanities researchers have partnered with Tamasha, a London-based theatre production company, on a new project designed to address ongoing mental...

Tamasha

Deep dive into the 2023 King's Artists Programme

As this year's King’s Artists programme concludes, discover more about this year's 6-month research and development collaborations, supported by King's Culture

King's Artists Final Composite

Six new collaborations launched as part of King's Artists programme

Artists-in-residence will collaborate with academics to explore imaginative approaches to research.

composite image 6 tiles representing king's artists projects, from top left to bottom right a wooden box, a pro-choice protest, illustration of soundwaves, anatomy drawing, cyanotype portrait and an artwork with green plants

Events

09May

Intersections between Humanities and Science

Tthe third lecture in the collaborative initiative under Medical Humanities between King’s & TMC, Mumbai

Please note: this event has passed.

29Mar

Drama of Dissection: Research Sharing

A talk discussing medical students’ feelings about dissection, featuring puppets and magic.

Please note: this event has passed.