RKE Staff Profiles
Research and knowledge exchange at The Place brings together academic, artistic and industry expertise. On this page you can get to know who contributes to this unique ecology through research and knowledge exchange activity that cuts across the organisation.
To contact any of our researchers, please email research@theplace.org.uk

Dr Andrew Sanger
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- Unit Leader, MA Dance: Performance

Dr Clare Parfitt
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- Research and Knowledge Exchange Co-ordinator

Dr Efrosini Protopapa
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- Director of Research

Dr Elsa Urmston
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- Freelance Dance Educator and Researcher

Eva Recacha
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- Lecturer; Unit Leader, BA Contemporary Dance

Jo Parkes
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- Course Leader, MA Dance: Participation, Communities, Activism

Dr Katrina McPherson
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- Course Leader: MA Screendance

Dr Lise Uytterhoeven
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- Chief Academic Officer

Maria Ryan
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- Creative Learning Producer

Dr Samuel J Wilson
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- Lecturer in Critical Performance Theory

Stephanie Mattiussi (née De’Ath)
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- Head of Dance Science and Health

Christina Elliot
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- Head of Programming & Producing

Dr Tom Hastings
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- Lecturer in Dance

Prof. Christopher Bannerman
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- Visiting Professor