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. External panel member representing the UOE on professional learning accreditation panels at the General Teaching Council Scotland GTCS ( 6 -8 panels per year) 5. Internal Examiner PhD Melissa Ann Milligan, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (CAHSS); Scottish Country Dance (August 2020)

Esteem Indicators

1. Editorial Board member for Research in Dance Education journal, RIDE, Taylor & Francis Routledge. 2. Editorial Board, advisory panel, Scottish Journal for Performance Arts 3. Vice Convenor Traditional Dance Forum Scotland (TDFS) 4. Education Scotland, National Government Working Group core member Expressive Arts 5. Dance Education & Science consultant for the Erasmus+ consortium project Northern Ballet, Stichting Misiconi and Psico Ballet Maite Leon Foundation https://shiftdance.eu/ 6. External examiner BA Musical Theatre and Dance, University of Cumbria 7. December 2020, invited keynote speaker, dance and health, IADMS regional Day Porto Portugal 8. Invited speaker SHIFT perceptions conference, Northern Ballet 2021

Awards

2021- Teaching award nomination in the category Teacher of the Year. 2021- Teaching award nomination in the category of Personal Tutor 2021 – College award nominee in the category of exceptional colleague 2014-19, 7 teaching award nominations 2015 nomination and runner up for UOE CAHSS Excellence in Engagement with the wider community award

2 Publications

Timmons, W. M., Mulholland, R., Sproule, J, (in press). Is the health risk and consequence of Generalised Joint Hypermobility understood within a Classical Ballet Narrative? Concerns for dance practitioners. Research in Dance Education.

Timmons, W. M. (2021) BOOK REVIEW. Ethical Dilemmas in dance education: Case studies on humanizing dance pedagogy, edited book by Doug Risner and Karen Schuup, McFarland, 2020, 341pp.,ISBN 978-1-4766-6717-1. Research in Dance Education.

Timmons, W. M., Sproule, J., Mulholland, R., (accepted). Is the health risk and consequence of Generalised Joint Hypermobility understood within a Classical Ballet narrative? Concerns for dance practitioners. Research in Dance Education.

Carson, H., Timmons, W.M., (in review). Considering new moves in dance medicine and science: Promoting a translational agenda for improved applied impact. Research in Dance Education.

Sian Salmon, Wendy Timmons & David H. Saunders (2021) An exploration of heart rate and perceived exertion differences between class and competition in freestyle-disco dance, Research in Dance Education, 22:1, 88-107, DOI: 10.1080/14647893.2020.1798392

Vincent, L., Timmons, W. M., & Mulholland, R. (2021). The challenges of providing a quality certificated dance education within secondary schools - findings from a comparative study exploring the experiences of eight English and Scottish dance teachers. Research in Dance Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/14647893.2020.1746254

Chua, T. X., Sproule, J., & Timmons, W. M. (2018). Effect of Skilled Dancers' Focus of Attention on Pirouette Performance. Journal of Dance Medicine & Science, 22(3), 148- 159. https://doi.org/10.12678/1089-313X.22.3.148

Wenn, B., Mulholland, R., Timmons, W. M., and Zanker, Y., (2017): Towards a developing Construct in Dance Education- Exploring the Relation of Emotional Intelligence to Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy and Teaching Experience among British Dance Education Students, Research in Dance Education Vol 19 Issue 1. E press https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14647893.2017.1354843

Simon Biggs, Mariza Dima, Henrik Ekeus, Sue Hawksley, Wendy Timmons, and Mark Wright. The ‘H’ in HCI: Enhancing Perception of Interaction through the Performative in R. Shumaker (Ed.): Virtual and Mixed Reality, LNCS 5622, pp. 3–12, 2009. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009

Lycouris, S, Timmons, W. (2011). Physical Literacy in Legal Education: Understanding Physical Bodily Experiences in the Dance Environment to Inform Processes within Legal

3 Education in Bankowski Z., Del Mar,M., Maharg, P. (ed) Beyond Text in Legal Education, Volume 1: The Arts and the Legal Academy. Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing Co.

Successful research funding applications

1. 2011 AHRC Digital Transformations research development, Lycouris S, Timmons W, Ravenscroft J. Enhancing the experience of dance performance for the visually impaired using real time Haptic feedback, £30,000 2. 2012 Knowledge Transfer grant, Timmons, W. Clough, S. £2940, funding for dissemination event in August 2012 related to Choreo-Haptic project. 3. 2012 Lycouris S, Timmons W, Ravernscroft J. University of Edinburgh’s IKTF scheme application, reference 9bP-12/0773, £11,766 Knowledge Transfer funding to develop the Choreo-haptic technology 4. 2016, Seedcorn funding awards UOE a. Body Language project: McDowell M & Timmons W, £2500 b. Teacher resilience project: Mulholland R & Timmons W, £2500 5. Welcome Trust: PI Rachel Hosker ( Special collections UOE), CO I’s: W Timmons, M Mcdowell , J Ravenscroft, Proposed duration of project: 2 years (September 2017-September 2019) Total: £129,961.84 awarded ( May 2017)

6. STANDARD INNOVATION VOUCHER SCHEME AY2016/17, Partner organisation: Dance Base in kind costs £6800, UOE W Timmons Voucher Funding £5000. Total project £11800 (May 2017)

7. 2020, Seedcorn funding award UOE, £1,059 ( in kind funding £18,040)

8. ADVANCED INNOVATION VOUCHER SCHEME AY2019/20, Project - Understanding and Developing Technical Skills in Classical Ballet: Ensuring Safe and Healthy Practice, Partner organisation Scottish Ballet Total project: £10, 000 (December 2020)

9. COVID 19 ( EFI/DDI funding) £24,000 W Timmons, H Carson, C Nash, D Collins

Knowledge Exchange funding and impact activities

1. 2012 -2018 CHSS, UOE Exchange Fellowships at MHSES

W Timmons Role: fundraising, curation, organisation, and mentorship for residencies and impact activities

a) 2012 Vincent Hantam, (former principle at Scottish Ballet) Collaborative Residency to investigate the work of Margaret Morris (Colours) (WT Successful application to Creative Scotland, £15,000,

4 b) 2013 Chris Kidd (freelance dance Artist and Educator) Collaborative Residency to investigate Socratic choreographic methodology in Dance education (Heavenly View project) (WT Successful application to Creative Scotland, £9,000) c) 2015 White & Givan (Former Errol White Dance Company) Unique 2 year Dance Company in Residency across the UOE & Traverse Theatre. The residency will focus on developing new audiences for Dance retour of existing work (Breath Spring 2016) (WT Successful applications to Creative Scotland total of £71, 000 awarded Jan 2016) d) 2018 Nic Gareiss , traditional dance artist in residence in partnership with the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland ( Successful funding application £12,750)

2. 2016, Open project-funding award £30,000 Jan 2016, Creative Scotland. Margaret Morris Archive Alive project in collaboration with Margaret Morris Movement International 3. 2017 Seated swing project in partnership with Dance Base (national centre for dance in Scotland) BBC TIMELINE short documentary film internet sensation that has received over 20m views and was named BBC's no 1 clip for 2017 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04wb721

Patents

Vairis, A, Timmons, W., Pateromichelakis, N. Kalyvianakis, A. 2009. OPP platform for assessing dance technique, patented in Greece. Greek Patent No. 20090100586, 26 October 2009

G.N. Tzagarakis, (Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece), W. Timmons (University of Edinburgh) T.E Foukakis (Karolinska Institute, Sweden) National Patent “Method and monitoring device for the objective evaluation of the progress of health and Wellbeing” GR Patent 20140100429 (2014)

Authored Books & chapters

Using expressive movement and haptics to explore kinaesthetic empathy, aesthetic and physical literacy Timmons, W. & Ravenscroft, J., 31 Jul 2019, The Routledge Handbook of Visual Impairment. Ravenscroft, J. (ed). Routledge, p. 275-287 13 p.

Aligizakis, A. K. Timmons, W. M. Gigourtakis, S, E. Katonis, P (2002), Basic Principles of Dance Medicine. Heraklion: Kavadias, in Greek Language

Selected Conference report proceedings & presentations

Wendy Timmons, Dancing with Hypermobility. International Association for Dance Medicine & Science, Montreal, Canada 24th October 2019

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Sian Salmond Wendy Timmons, Dave Saunders title: Heart rate and perceived exertion differences between class and competition in freestyle-disco dance, 10 min scientific presentation. International Association for Dance Medicine & Science, Helsinki, Finland 24th October 2018

Helen Gould, Wendy Timmons, Mark Pace title: Dancing with Parkinson’s 10 min scientific presentation. International Association for Dance Medicine & Science, Helsinki, Finland 24th October 2018

Wendy Timmons, title: Interoceptive sensibility and proprioception in classical dancers with hypermobility10 min scientific presentation. International Association for Dance Medicine & Science, Helsinki, Finland 24th October 2018

Wendy Timmons & Simon Blaschke, title: Dancing with Dementia, 10 min scientific presentation. International Association for Dance Medicine & Science, Helsinki , Finland 24th October 2018

Robyn Horsburgh; Georgios Machtsiras; Wendy Timmons, Title: The Impact of Shock Absorption in dance shoes and the relation to the increased risk of injuries within Highland Dancers, 10 min scientific presentation. International Association for Dance Medicine & Science, Huston Texas UAS 10th October 16th October 2017

Timmons W; Kelly J; Ballantyne P & Francis D. Panel member Title of Forum/roundtable: Aspects of the Scottish dance mosaic Dates of Conference: 13-19 July 2017 Place of Conference: Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick Ireland

Wendy Timmons: Title: Exploring the relationship between interoception, anxiety and hypermobility in adolescent dance students, 20 min scientific presentation: International Association for Dance Medicine & Science, Huston Texas UAS 10th October -16th October 2017

Mulholland R & Timmons W, ICSEI conference Glasgow, January 2016 Presentation title, Placing WellBeing at the Heart of Professional Learning: The Development of Teacher Resilience

Mulholland R & Timmons W, "Leading Education: The Distinct Contributions of Educational Research and Researchers”, taking place in Dublin, Ireland, August 2016. Presentation title: Placing Well- Being at the Heart of Professional Learning

Timmons W & Nedkova I, British Society of Sport History September 2016, Edinburgh UK. Presentation title: Just being natural -- a cure for the ills of modernity

Timmons, W; Nedkova, I, Papageorgiou M, Scottish Sport and Art conference, Edinburgh 2015 Presentation title, Margaret Morris: Artist, Educationalist and Remedial Therapist.

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Recent Artistic portfolio & outputs

2012- 2014, curation and creative direction of dance performances within the Oxygen series of collaborative performances between The University of Edinburgh and The Royal Conservatoire Scotland. Oxygen 2013 Footage: http://www.blendedlearning.me/public/Oxygen2013/ Oxygen 2014 performances http://theheavenlyview.wordpress.com/ Oxygen 2014 Footage http://www.blendedlearning.me/public/Oxygen2014/ October 2014, EUSA Black History Month, collaboration and curation of performance with Classically British February 2016, Co Curation of Residency Launch performance for White & Givan at the Traverse Theatre Spring 2016, Co Curation of Breathe tour, 9 venues across Scotland http://www.whiteandgivan.com October 2016 Co Curated exhibition Movement https://issuu.com/horsecrossarts/docs/movement_exhibition_guide January – October 2021 Curation and creative direction of screen-dance and live performance “I move as your vision” as part of Prof. John Ravenscroft’s AHRC fellowship (In progress)

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