SUMMARY CURRICULUM VITAE

Wendy May Timmons [email protected], Direct line 0131 6516596, @wtimmons

Academic Role

Programme Director: MSc Science & Education MSc & Education and accredited QTs teaching pathway for 3-18 yrs. (GTCS) Senior Teaching Fellow, University of Edinburgh Responsibilities: Course organiser and teaching, MSc - Dance Pedagogy (40 credits) & Preventative Dance Medicine (20 credits), Professional Development and leadership in Dance (40 credits) & dissertation supervision PhD supervision Two students (Dance science & Education) Teaching, B.Ed. & MA PE – Aesthetics (yrs. 3 &4), Physical Culture (yr. 2), Dance Education, & practical (yrs. 1&2) January 2013 Registered PhD part time (University of Edinburgh) working title: The embodied experiences and health risk of hypermobility in a dance narrative

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 Chairperson Traditional Dance Forum Scotland (TDFS) 4. Invited as Expert member of EU workshop group for Entrepreneurship in Education EE, Dublin, May 2012 5. Education Scotland , National Working Group member Expressive Arts 6. Programme Validation Panel member, B.Ed. Dance, University of Canterbury, April 2015 7. September 2015, appointed External Examiner B.Ed. Dance, University of Canterbury 8. November 2015, appointed external panel member General Teaching Council Scotland GTCS 9. December 2018-2020 , appointed Dance Education & Science consultant for the Erasmus+ consortium project – Northern , Stichting Misiconi and Psico Ballet Maite Leon Foundation

Awards

2014-17, 6 teaching award nominations 2015 nomination and runner up for UOE CAHSS Excellence in Engagement with the Wider community award

2011-2017, 5 year R& KE & funding applications

Total awarded £173.290, Total pending £141,760

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. 2012 -2015 CHSS, UOE Successful Exchange Fellowships and funding, collaborator, Timmons W Organisation and mentorship of successful Dance Artists in Residencies at Moray House School of Education, 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, 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, further £10,00 Cashback for Creativity application Jan 2016, unsuccessful ) 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) 5. 2016, Seedcorn funding awards UOE a. Body Language project: McDowell M & Timmons W, £2500 b. Teacher resilience project: Mulholland R & Timmons W, £2500 6. 2016, open project funding award £30,000 Jan 2016, Creative Scotland. Margaret Morris Archive Alive project in collaboration with Margaret Morris Movement International 7. 2016, Education Scotland Innovation & Attainment challenge funding application pending £ 29,880, project title: Magic of Learning, in collaboration with Service Manager, Arts and Creative Learning, Edinburgh City Council, children and families directorate 8. Seated BBC short documentary film internet sensation now @ 16, 337,696 hits http://www.radionz.co.nz/concert/programmes/upbeat/audio/201840124/seated-swing- internet-sensation

2 9. 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)

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

Publications 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 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.

Wenn, B., Mulholland, R., Timmons, W., 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

Chua, T., Sproule, J. & Timmons, W. accepted 4 Dec 2017 Effect of focus of attention and skilled dancers’ pirouette performance. Journal for Dance Medicine and Science, 31 p.

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 Aligizakis, A. K. Timmons, W. M. Gigourtakis, S, E. Katonis, P (2002), Basic Principles of Dance Medicine. Heraklion: Kavadias, in Greek Language Book chapter, Haptics, co-authored Wendy Timmons & Prof John Ravenscroft to be published in 2019 a forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Visual Impairment, Social and Cultural Research.

Selected Conference report proceedings & presentations Koumantakis G. A, Gigourtakis S. E, Timmons W. M. Reliability Testing of the Pressure Biofeedback Unit in a Female Dancer Population. International Association for Dance Medicine and Science Conference October 2005, Stockholm, Sweden

Timmons W. M. Dance is a Dynamic Cultural Phenomenon, fundamental to the socio- cultural procedures on the legendary Island of Crete throughout its 5000 year history. In conference proceedings International Dance Council Congress on October 2006, Athens, Greece

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Timmons W. M. Cretan Dance. In conference proceedings, 39th World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music 4 - 11 July 2007 Vienna,

Timmons W. M. The Sousta, is this an ancient trans- cultural Chameleon of dance steps? International Council for Traditional Music 40th World Conference proceedings, Durban, South Africa, 1-8 July 2009

Timmons W. M., Vairis A., Kalivianakis, A., Pateromichelakis N. Equipment assisted study of point technique, International Association for Dance Medicine & Science Conference, October 2009, The Hague, Holland Lycouris, S, Timmons, W, Hays, L & Vafeas, S. Somatics & Technology Conference 2012, University of Chichester on Saturday 23rd June. Presentation title, Choreo-haptic experiments.

Lycouris, S. Timmons, W. (December 2012) AHRC Digital transformations Moot, Mermaid centre, Showcase presentation of Choreo-haptic technology

Timmons, W. Verheul M. Mendez Rial B. (October 2013). International Association for Dance Medicine & Science, Washington USA. Conference presentation title: Adolescent vocational classical ballet dancers and competitive gymnasts: correlations between anthropometric determinants and physical condition

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

Mulholland R & Timmons W, ICSEI conference , January 2016 Presentation title, Placing Well- Being 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; 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

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

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

4 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

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

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

Recent Artistic portfolio

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 Classicaly 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

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