SUMMARY CURRICULUM VITAE & BACKGROUND Dr. Wendy May Timmons
[email protected], Direct line 0131 6516596, @wtimmons Academic Role Senior Teaching Fellow (0.8) Programme Director: MSc Dance Science & Education WITH accredited QTs teaching pathway for 3-18 yrs. (GTCS) o I conceptualised and developed the MSc Dance Science and Education programme, which was successfully launched in 2009. This was the first and remains the only PG degree for dance in Scotland. o Following the success of the MSc DSE, I then developed the QTs pathway within the MSc DSE, successfully getting it accredited by the GTCS as a teacher qualification across 3-18 years with a subject specialism in dance. There is no other route to QTs for dance teachers in Scotland. The MSc DSE with QTs was indeed the first Master’s degree to break traditional ITE models of provision, ensuring a route to access to dance artists and practitioners, this was launched in 2016 o PhD completed October 2020: Title, Dancing with hypermobility: The embodied experiences and health risk of hypermobility in a classical ballet narrative Responsibilities: Course organiser & teaching: Dance Pedagogy (40 credits), Preventative Dance Medicine (20 credits), Dissertation Course (60 credits) Teaching: Professional Development and leadership in Dance (40 credits QTs pathway), MA PE Dance Education, Dance theory & practical (yrs. 1&2) PhD supervision: Three current students (Dance Science & Education), Sian Salmond, Yang Zhao, Liron Blajwajs, Academic citizenship: Committee membership: 1. Special Circumstances committee MHSES 2. Teaching, Learning and curriculum development committee subgroup MHSES 3. School for Scottish and Celtic Studies, archive. Steering Board member (LLC/CAHSS) 4.