About ME
With 20years experience in higher education, my career has transitioned from
Graduate Teaching Assistant (2004) to Lecturer (2005), then Senior Lecturer (2014)
and Head of Research (2017-2023) senior manager.
External Examiner roles: I have held External Examiner roles across all levels: for the
University of Winchester’s BA Choreography and Dance (2015-2019), postgraduate (MA and PhD)
at the University of Cape Town, University of Melbourne, Roehampton University and the
University of Bolton; I am currently the External Examiner for the MA in Dance Research
(Rambert School).
Service, Advocacy and Leadership: I am a former board member of the European Association of
Dance Historians (2006-2012), the Society of Dance History Scholars (2012-2018), and the
Society for Dance Research (2022-23)I have organized conferences in London, Paris and New York.
For the Faculty of Education/RAD: London (2009), Sydney (2016), Brisbane (2018),
and online virtual (2021). I curated the Guest Lecture Series (2017-2023) bringing together
global voices on dance studies and dance education.
Research interests: transmoderism, dance and interdisciplinarity; defining contemporary ballet;
pedagogical praxis in ballet teaching (focus on equity, diversity and inclusion); writing dance
histories through performance.
Teaching/research supervision experience includes: performance analysis of ballet in the 20/21C,
dance pedagogy, 20th dance histories, approaches to writing histories, understanding dance criticism
and the New York School, methodologies for research in dance and musical theatre studies, research
ethics and academic integrity. I am experienced in supervising doctoral research (University of Chichester).
I have also guest lectured at Kingston University (UK), the University of Cape Town, Rhodes University (RSA)
and the University of Malta, as well as conservatoire/Higher Education providers such as Rambert School.
Publications: My work is widely published, in book articles, peer-reviewed journal articles;
edited journals; monographs and edited anthology. With Dr Jill Nunes Jensen, I co-edited
Network of Pointes (2015), and The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet. I was editor of
‘Focus on Education’ between 2016 and 2023. Following the publication of my first two books (2020, 2021),
I have edited The Oxford Handbook of Ballet Pedagogy (OUP, forthcoming)
