Karen Wood
email: Karen.Wood@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
PhD Title: Audiences, Screen Dance and Kinesthetic Empathy
Supervisors: Prof. Dee Reynolds and Dr. Matthew Reason
Main Discipline Areas: Dance, psychology, audience research, film studies.
Research Interests
- How the audience responds to dance on screen
Presentations and publications
- Presented at International Association of Dance Medicine and Science Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, 2008.
Membership of Professional Organisations
- International Association of Dance Medicine and Science, Dance UK
Teaching Areas
- Dance
- Dance Science
Professional biography
I completed the MSc Dance Science ( graduated 2007) at Laban, London and worked as Graduate Assistant in the Dance Science Department following my MSc. This work included lecturing in dance science related topics at Laban and other educational institutions. I have also project managed community arts projects and taught dance (ballet, contemporary, tap, salsa) in a variety of dance settings.
Other information
My PhD is a studentship with the Watching Dance Project, www.watchingdance.org, which is an inter-disciplinary project collaborating the arts and neuroscience.