{"id":4171,"date":"2020-11-24T14:33:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T14:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=4171"},"modified":"2020-11-24T14:33:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T14:33:12","slug":"bbc-arts-culture-in-quarantine-premieres-i-feel-different-film-based-on-professor-nicola-shaughnessys-ahrc-research-into-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/11\/24\/bbc-arts-culture-in-quarantine-premieres-i-feel-different-film-based-on-professor-nicola-shaughnessys-ahrc-research-into-autism\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Arts\u2019 Culture in Quarantine premieres \u2018I Feel Different\u2019 film based on Professor Nicola Shaughnessy\u2019s AHRC research into autism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Nicola Shaughnessy\u2019s extensive research into autism\u00a0and creative practice\u00a0is one of nine selected Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) projects which have been made into short animated films as part of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/arts\">BBC Arts\u2019 Culture in Quarantine \u2018Animated Thinking\u2019 series<\/a>. The film, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p08z30ky\">I Feel Different<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0explores the untold stories of autistic girls and women in their own words to provide an insight into the intensity and sensory reality\u00a0of their experiences.<\/p>\n<p>The AHRC launches its new animated film series on BBC Arts\u2019 Culture in Quarantine site, called \u2018Animated Thinking\u2019 today, 24 November 2020. The short films created as part of this series, explore diverse topics including what modern life is like for autistic girls and women in the UK, and explores the untold story of the Native Americans who came to the UK in the middle ages.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Nicola Shaughnessy\u2019s research into autism, began with an AHRC research project,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/imaginingautism.org\/\">Imagining Autism<\/a>\u00a0(2011-2014), and has continued with the second AHRC-funded interdisciplinary research project,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/playingapartautisticgirls.org\/\">Playing A\/Part<\/a>, a collaboration between the universities of Kent and Surrey, involving academics in drama, media arts and psychology.\u00a0\u00a0The project\u00a0explores the identities and experiences of autistic girls and adolescents through creative and participatory research.\u00a0The film is a co-production in collaboration with autistic creative practitioners and other members of the project team, including Dr Melissa Trimingham and Dr Hannah Newman, a Kent PhD and Drama graduate.<\/p>\n<h6><strong>IMAGE CREDIT: <em>I FEEL DIFFERENT<\/em>, BBC ARTS&#8217; CULTURE IN QUARANTINE<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Nicola Shaughnessy\u2019s extensive research into autism\u00a0and creative practice\u00a0is one of nine selected Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) projects which have been made into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/11\/24\/bbc-arts-culture-in-quarantine-premieres-i-feel-different-film-based-on-professor-nicola-shaughnessys-ahrc-research-into-autism\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40592,"featured_media":4181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,168430,222289,9112,9111],"tags":[26408,239479,84095,239481,239480],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4192,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions\/4192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}