C-DaRE Postgraduate Research Community
If you are thinking about joining the C-DaRE community or are already studying with us, there are many opportunities to get involved: regular Postgraduate Research (PGR) gatherings, C-DaRE’s international seminar series called C-DaRE invites, Centre-based research symposia and conferences, informal conversations about research with the entire team (a series called ‘Beginnings’), and professional development webinars. PGRs are also supported to organise their own events and meetings, including praxis and reading groups. Together, these opportunities help balance the more solitary aspects of doing postgraduate research.
PGRs are encouraged to get involved with all our events in many ways including submitting proposals, volunteering to help, or joining the organising committee for conferences. PGRs may also gain experience of journal production by supporting the editorial processes with our own journals. Getting involved will also give PGRs hands-on experience of work as an academic.
If you are interested in joining or participating in the C-DaRE PGR community, please email the PGR leads Emma Meehan and Simon Ellis at cdarepgrenquires@coventry.ac.uk.
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Current Postgraduate Researchers
Name Research Title Nina Atkinson Feeling the Dance - Experiencing immersive dance with and without sight Mira Balchandran Gokul Bharatanatyam as a knowledge system; a phenomenological exploration from the dancer's perspective Hank (Robert) Bamberger Body-based Confessional Practice in Killer Heels by Gay Hank Georgina Cockburn Dance as a catalyst for living well; examining the potential for Living Well Hubs to improve people's lives through dance Rachael Davies Chisenhale Dance Space: Uncovering the history and pioneering work of Britain’s leading experimental dance organisation (working title) Micia De Wet Developing an Actor's Intuition Lisa Dowler The Significance of Dance Improvisation in Clinical and Care Settings. Julio Escudero Making Motion Tangible: embodied & critical research at the human-machine interface Greta Gauhe Remembering Touch: New Methods for Supporting Bodily Connections Over Distance: A practice-led Community Dance Research Tsehaye Haidemariam Augmented Bodies: A Study on the Origin and Development of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Henrietta Hale Relational Practices and the Tavistock Institute’s Archive: embodiment and social engagement Kat Hawkins The role of the understudy in inclusive dance: Appropriation, Accessibility and Otherness Charles Ingram Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 through a Headphone Verbatim Lens: A Study into Civic Pride Miranda Laurence Bodies in Space and Time: Conceptualising Dance Dramaturgy through Interaction with Architectural Thinking Helen Laws An Investigation into Resistance and Representation: Freelance Dance Artists and the Cultural Ecology Lizzy Le Quesne A Dance of Becoming: Skinner Releasing Technique, New Materialism and a dance practice of somatic autobiography Lola Maury Encouraging enhanced states of sensorial awareness from the spectator Megan Mc Conville Shone Gender and Kinship in Collaborative Theatre David Mellor Smart Cities and AI: supporting ethical development from the bottom up Patricia Melton The Pedagogy of Tap Dance: A Cultural and Historical Perspective on Tap Dance Teaching Strategies And Tap Dancer Learning Styles Hiten Mistry Reshaping the routines of our past into dances of the new normal – the UK South Asian Dance sectors recovery and resocialisation of community dance in a post-pandemic era. Andrea Ondruskova Somatic resonance in frames of domestic labour Louisa Petts The wellbeing of an older dancer: an enquiry into the experience of community dance practice in older
adult populationsRosa Postlethwaite Dramaturgy with Other-Than-Human Species Andrea Puerta Anatomy of the embodiment of images: A theory about the embodiment of images based on the sense experience of dancers and actors in the practice of Skinner Releasing and Lecoq techniques Mandy Rogerson Towards a phenomenology of choreography; exploring modes of meaning making through the sensory / affective feedback loop Josh Slater Falling into Spaces Zrinka Uzbinec A Cute Crash: Cutting Through Violence with Choreography and Cuteness (M4C) Kim Vom Kothen A Transient Space – Filming Dance Jade Ward Mindful Changes: Exploring the benefits of Dance for Health and Hip hop Based-Interventions on Health, Well-being, and Community Cohesion during and post COVID-19 Pandemic Catherine Washbrook Communion, Perception and Creative Making in
Immersive Place Dance PracticeLinda Westmoreland Feel the Fear and Move Any Way: improvised dance and movement as a creative approach to reducing anxiety Mary Wycherley A practice(ing) of responsibility. Artist-curator in a dance, screendance and visual arts triangulation. (working title)
C-DaRE Postgraduate Team
Postgraduate Research Leads
Emma Meehan
Associate Professor
Emma is co-lead for the Postgraduate Research (PGR) programme at C-DaRE. She also supports international research visitors at the Centre. She completed her PhD at Trinity College Dublin on somatic practices in the performances of Irish choreographer Joan Davis and has been working at C-DaRE since 2013. She enjoys listening to PGRs’ research ideas since they are at the cutting edge of new knowledge and practice.
View Emma's Pure ProfileSimon Ellis
Associate Professor Research
Simon is co-lead for the Postgraduate Research (PGR) programme at C-DaRE. He has taught in Higher Education since 1992 and has been a fellow of the Higher Education Academy since 2010. Simon is an artist-researcher and was the first person to complete a PhD through practice at the Victorian College of the Arts (Melbourne University). He takes tremendous pleasure in supporting the work of other people – particularly postgraduates and early career researchers – to seek to understand how artistic and scholarly practices might contribute to developing new understandings of humans in motion. www.skellis.net For enquiries regarding postgraduate Research at C-Dare, please email cdarepgenquiries@coventry.ac.uk
Visit Simon's Pure ProfileMidlands4Cities Site Director
Dr Victoria Thoms
Assistant Professor
Victoria is one of Coventry University’s Midlands4Cities (M4C) Site Directors. She is an Assistant Professor at the Centre. She completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (PGCertLTHE) and she is a member of the Higher Education Academy (HEA). From joining CDaRE in 2015 until taking up the role of Site Director in 2021, Victoria was the PGR coordinator for the Centre. During this time, she was responsible for maintaining the welfare and progression of a diverse group of more than 30 PGRs, the largest consistent cohort of PGRs in the Institute for Creative Culture. Under Victoria’s guidance, the Centre achieved one of the highest satisfaction rates in the University (2017 PRES).
Visit Victoria's Pure ProfileIn terms of my academic and artistic development, my time as a PGR at C-DaRE was both nourishing and nurturing. Being part of such a collegial and vibrant dance research community enabled my research to flourish in a variety of ways and sowed seeds of thought and practice that continue to grow in my work today
C-DaRE is an exceptional community of artists and researchers doing exciting scholarly inquiry in diverse ways and settings. Remarkably, their deep understanding of what creative and scholarly research practice involve and their humanness craft an environment of support and care. This inspires a genuine search for one’s own voice, empowers the discovery of one’s unique contribution to dance research, and invites action.
The stimulating research environment at C-DaRE holds space for audacious projects and practice-research. Events curated by the centre are occasions to think through practices and with others, debating, presenting, experimenting. The team and fellow researchers of C-DaRE provide support, immanent attention, critical voices, rigorous feedback, patience, and delicious humour.”
