
DrLouise Douse
- Research Institute Member, Institute for Humanities, Education and Arts Research (IHEAR)
- Senior Lecturer in Dance, School of Computing Engineering and Creative Industries
Louise completed her PhD in dance at the University of Bedfordshire in 2014. She has published a chapter in the Oxford Handbook for Dance and Wellbeing (2017) and has presented papers at several international conferences on the topic of flow and well-being in dance. Louise co-lead on the dance and well-being project: Generations Dancing - a community arts project investigating the impact of an intergenerational arts intervention on participants' well-being, quality of life and citizenship. Louise has been working as a Lecturer in Dance at the University of Bedfordshire since 2013.
Qualifications
Academic Qualifications
- BachelorProject: Performing Arts
- PhDProject: Dance
Metrics
All time
Scopus
23
PlumX
18
Research Interests
- Moving Experience: an investigation of embodied knowledge and technology for reading flow in improvisation. PhD Thesis.
Teaching Expertise
- Dance theory;
- history, analysis and criticism
- Anatomy and Physiology
- Dance and Wellbeing
- Dissertation Supervision
