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Following the success of last year's 'Dead Man Talking' (a cross faculty interprofessional initiative in collaboration with Drama Studies and the School of Medicine, Dentistry & Biomedical Sciences at Queen's), medical ethicist Dr. Melissa McCullough, theatre director Anna Newell and choreographer Stevie Prickett once again embark on an intensive performing arts project working with 12 medical (3rd year - elected component module) and 5 drama (3rd year - community theatre module) students.

Over ten days they embarked upon a process of devising, collaborating, exploring, playing, investigating and creating. Using devised theatre techniques to aid the students in the development of a script. The result is a brand new experimental performance piece, this year exploring the ethics of reproduction, and the use of genetic engineering to artificially select the genetic makeup of embryos.

The project was awarded an Award of Excellence for Innovation from the Dean of the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences at Queen’s.

"Doctor's Can Dance: Using devised theatre to explore a topical issue in bioethics"
This keynote talk was given by Anna Newell at the 8th Annual Galway Symposium on Higher Education, 11th June 2010. The conference title was "Creative Thinking: Re-imagining the University".