Mermikides, A & Bouchard, G (eds) (2024) The Routledge Companion on Performance and Medicine. Forthcoming 2024

Mermikides, A & Lavender, A (eds) (2022) Lightwork: Texts on and from Collaborative Multimedia Theatre Bristol & Chicago: Intellect

Mermikides, A (2020), ‘Drama out of a Crisis: the cultural sector responds to healthcare professionals impacted by COVID-19’. Nature Immunology, 21(8), pp 817-818

Mermikides, A (2020) Performance, Medicine and the Human. London & NY: Methuen Bloomsbury 

Bouchard, G & Mermikides, A (eds) (2016) Performance and the Medical Body. London & NY: Methuen Bloomsbury

Mermikides, A & Weitkamp, E (2016) ‘Medical performance and the ‘inaccessible’ experience of illness: an exploratory study’. BMJ Medical Humanities 42(3), pp. 186-193

Mermikides, A (2014) ‘The Appliance of Science: Devising, Dramaturgy and the Alternative Science Play’ in Trencsenyi, K & B. Cochrane (eds) New Dramaturgies: International Perspectives. London & NY: Bloomsbury Methuen pp. 125-144

Mermikides, A (2013) 'The scientist center stage'. Nature Immunology, 14(5), pp. 416-418

Selected Papers

 'The Drama of Dissection: Performance Making, the Medical School Anatomy Laboratory and the Critical Medical Humanities' Trinity College London Arts and Humanities Research Institute, February 2024

'Performance and the Medical Humanities' Intersection in Humanities and Health Lecture, Tata Memorial Centre (Mumbai) and King's College London, May 2023

'Drama of Dissection' Researchworks, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, June 2022

‘Accessing Patients’ Experience of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia through the Arts’ British Psychosocial Oncological Society, March 2020

‘Performance, Medicine and the Human’ Warwick University, Institute of Advance Studies. Medical Humanities Salon. June 2019

‘Performance, nursing and the embodiment of care’ at Performing Care, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. December 2016

Keynote: ‘Chimeric Compositions: interdisciplinary encounters between music, theatre and medicine. Musical Composition as Interdisciplinary Practice.’ University of York. June 2016

‘Deep in the marrow: patient experiences of leukaemia and transplant through performance’ Imperial College. March 2016

‘Themselves and not themselves: mythic and medical chimerism in cancer and transplant’. Association for the Medical Humanities.Dartington College June 2015

Research Funding

Principle Investigation on British Academy/Wellcome Trust small grant for Drama of Dissection, £9,900 (from December 2024)

Project lead on UKRI Strategic Priorities Fund for ‘Performance for Care’ symposium on drama in healthcare education. £38,000 (December-March 2020)

Principle investigator on Guildhall School of Music & Drama Research grant for ‘'Careful: performance and educational workshops’ £6000 + £2000 contribution from Kingston University, Nursing Department (May – July 2018) and £3000 (June- July 2019). Lead artist on Arts Council of England 'Grants for the Arts' award for 'Careful: performance and educational workshops development' £14,435. 20 May 2016 - 1 February 2017

Principle investigator on Arts and Humanities Research Council Research Networking Award under the 'Science in Culture' theme, for 'Chimera: science through arts' (Bloodlines). £24, 000. 9 January 2013- 1 March 2014