@elsaurmston
Working in dance and the arts. Interested in vocational education, community and participation, dance science and the impact of the arts on people’s lives as well as creative, arts-based and inclusive research methods. PhD in Education.
"There is no such thing as a theory-free science. Whenever we decide to collect and analyse data, the choices we make are guided by our own implicit ideas about what is going on (what variables are important, what are the relations between these variables)."
#Methodology 🧪
Great to be at #NSCDConf25 yesterday presenting LCDS research with Steph and Sarah, discussing the challenges of quantifying students' work and rest time within the wider context of their education... it's not a simple or straight-forward task at all! Thanks to all for fruitful discussion
Not a single Reform MP has bothered to turn up to today's House of Commons debate on tackling violence against women and girls
Just a fab day with LCDS developing new perspectives on dance science curriculum with Steph. Thinking about what, why and how we support health literacy, who teaches and when in relation to the bigger picture. Great way to end the year ❤️
Fabulous ❤️
Word of the day is ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted by work.
I like to add ‘foreswunk’, exhausted before you even begin.
Missed a few days! 🫢
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
I’d love to be added please Emma
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
Fab few days in Chichester, teaching BSc Dance Science first years agitating dance science methodologies and getting to grips with the big questions that shape our discipline.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
Can’t wait to see you. Have you made that list of topics as we have A LOT to cover 🤓
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
I rather think I like @bsky.app. What a warm space with people keen to connect. Am gonna leave that other platform behind methinks.
Chichester-bound for a bit of a working break, teaching some lovely #dancescience students tomorrow about creative research methods. Plasticine packed!
Please would you add me Grace?
That blue sky is apt here 😊 sounds like a wonderful day Gill. Rocking your PhD process ❤️
Rambert School plaque
TV screen showing starter slide about positive psychology.
Starter slide for a session about power, control, autonomy and agency
Students’ mapping the unsaid hierarchies in dance practice
Had a lovely few weeks teaching at Rambert School. Enticing and provocative conversations about positive psychology, flow, power, control, autonomy and agency. Getting the critical thinking going early with these BA1s ❤️
Letting out a sigh of relief. This feels a bit better!