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Biography
Dr. Emma Meehan is Associate Professor at Coventry University’s Centre for Dance Research. She received her BA and PhD from the Drama Department, Trinity College, Dublin, where she taught part-time on the BA and MA programmes. She also worked as the administrator for the Arts Technology Research Lab at Trinity College to support the Digital Arts and Humanities Doctoral Programme. Her doctoral research focused on the work of Irish choreographer Joan Davis, who combines dance and somatic practices in creating interactive, site-specific performances. Research interests include somatic movement practices, arts in health, dance in Ireland and practice research. She co-edited Dance Matters in Ireland: Contemporary Performance and Practice with Aoife McGrath (Palgrave 2017) and Performing Process: Sharing Dance and Choreographic Practice with Hetty Blades (Intellect 2018). She was researcher on ‘Sensing the City: An Embodied Documentation And Mapping Of The Changing Uses And Tempers Of Urban Place’ and is Principal Investigator on ‘Somatic practice, chronic pain and self-care technology: inhabiting the lived and contextual body’ both funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. She is a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College UK; Board Member for the Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices; Board Member for the Association of Somatic Movement Dance Therapies UK and Ireland; and was co-convenor of the Performance as Research Working Group at the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) from 2013-2017. She was previously Postgraduate Lead at the Centre for Dance Research; and currently supports international guest researchers visiting the centre.
Research Interests
Somatic practices; Practice as research; Irish dance and theatre; Arts in health and wellbeing
Vision Statement
My research focuses on somatic practices in performance and wellbeing contexts, and how they respond to social, political and cultural issues. In addition, I have a background in Irish dance and theatre, specifically contemporary performance practices. Finally, I am a practitioner-researcher so my research involves developing embodied knowledge through engaging with the practices of artists through movement training, assisting on performances and creating my own works.
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
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‘Strictly’ Inclusive: Co-creating the past, present and future
Wood, K., Meehan, E., Foellmer, S. & Stamp, K.
9/05/22 → 30/11/22
Project: Research
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Dialogue Moves: how religious and cultural values are negotiated in public spaces through Amerta Movement in Indonesia
1/11/20 → 18/12/23
Project: Research
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Aotearoa somatic practice, chronic pain, and design network, Health Research Council New Zealand
Meehan, E., Weber, B., Carter, B. & Reihana, T.
20/08/20 → 31/07/22
Project: Research
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Cooking Connections Coventry: Home-based Sensory Food Experiences for Wellbeing
O'Sullivan, E., Meehan, E. & Tosun, N. C.
4/02/20 → 30/09/20
Project: Internally funded project
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Somatic practice, chronic pain and self-care technology: inhabiting the lived and contextual body
29/01/19 → 20/07/21
Project: Research
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Dancing with pain: agency through pain worlds
Meehan, E., 18 Dec 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Research in Dance Education. (In-Press), p. (in-press) 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Enter & Inhabit: Sensing the City
Garrett Brown, N., Meehan, E., Voris, A. & Kipp, C., Apr 2023, In: Public. 34, 67, p. 43-47 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Moving With Pain: What Principles From Somatic Practices Can Offer to People Living With Chronic Pain
Meehan, E. & Carter, B., 25 Jan 2021, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 11, 10 p., 620381.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Bridges between dance and health: how do we work with pain?
Meehan, E. & Carter, B., Jan 2020Research output: Practice-Based and Non-textual Research › Web publication/site
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Moving and Mapping: exploring embodied approaches to urban design and planning
Meehan, E., Garrett Brown, N., Kipp, C. & Voris, A., 31 Dec 2020, Urban Sensographies. Whybrow, N. (ed.). 1 ed. Routledge, p. 100-123 23 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Activities
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Elevate Conference
Emma Meehan (Co-chair) & Mo Pietroni-Spenst (Co-chair)
24 Mar 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Public Engagement Event
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Moving and Mapping:An Embodied Approach to Urban Planning and Design, International Federation for Theatre Research
Emma Meehan (Speaker) & Natalie Garrett Brown (Speaker)
Jul 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Cooking Connections Coventry: Adaptation, Partnership, Impact at AHRC Cities of Culture Network Cultural Policy and Evaluation Summit
Emma Meehan (Speaker)
Jun 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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"Somatic practices and chronic pain" at International Seminar about Dance, Health and Corporeality, Human Movement Science and Postgraduate Programme, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, online, September 2021.
Emma Meehan (Speaker)
9 Sept 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College (External organisation)
Emma Meehan (Member)
2020 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of council
Prizes
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American Society for Theatre Research Co-Sponsored Event Award
Meehan, Emma (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Artist in the Community Scheme Research and Development Grant
Meehan, Emma (Recipient), 2011
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Arts Council of Ireland Dance Bursary Award
Meehan, Emma (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Arts Council of Ireland Dance Project Award
Meehan, Emma (Recipient), 1 Jun 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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ERDF/ Creative Enterprise Fund
Meehan, Emma (Recipient), 2013
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)