Professor Helen Nicholson (Royal Holloway), Professor Nadine Holdsworth (University of Warwick) and Professor Jane Milling (University of Exeter)forThe Ecologies of Amateur Theatre(Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
The other shortlisted nominations were:
Professor Jerri Daboo (University of Exeter):Staging British South Asian Culture: Bollywood and Bhangra in British Theatre(Routledge, 2017)
Dr Anna Harpin (University of Warwick):Madness Art and Society: Beyond Illness(Routledge, 2018)
Dr Lynne Kendrick (Central School of Speech and Drama):Theatre Aurality(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)