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Funded PhD Studentship in Dance, Communities and Wellbeing
The Centre for Health and Wellbeing across the Life course at Brunel University London is offering a fully funded PhD studentship in partnership with New Adventures to build a programme theory of wellbeing for New Adventures’ community dance strategy related to the flagship production of Matthew Bourne’s iconic Swan Lake, which celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2025. The research will identify the conditions and mechanisms by which community dance achieves its wellbeing outcomes and will build evidence of the impact of an extensive programme of movement and dance activity in different places with diverse participants across the UK. The proposed PhD will ensure the development of an evidence-led framework for supporting the values of New Adventures in ensuring wide accessibility for people in different places to watch adventurous performances, take part in creative movement projects and become part of the New Adventures family of performers, professional practitioners and participants.
The PhD studentship will involve participatory community dance methodologies across multiple sites in the UK and interviews with key stakeholders in community dance including strategic decision makers, dance venue managers, dance leaders and dance professionals. This will lead to the design and delivery of workshop activities to coproduce a programme theory of wellbeing or community dance.
The successful candidate will be supervised by an expert interdisciplinary team of researchers and who will provide full training for the research.