Personal profile
Biography
Georgie Cockburn is a community dance artist and manager, and PhD candidate at the Centre for Dance Research at Coventry University. Her research interests sit within dance for/and health and wellbeing. Currently, she dances mostly with the under 5's, but her dance practice has been primarily with communities of neurodiverse adults. She has designed, delivered and managed participation and learning projects, in the UK with companies that include Myrtle Theatre, Rambert and Corali Dance Company and in China where she co-founded a project based initiative Pojie Arts | 破解艺术. Georgie co-led artistic prrogrammes for Pojie Arts, choreographing with the dancers and fellow co-founder Rosey Feltham. She has worked closely with NGO's and community organisations to strengthen and support arts-based provision. In 2007 Georgie studied for an MA in Theatre and Development. Her dissertation explored Youth Participation in New Democracies in Kosovo, through the lens of theatre practice and playwriting. Her undergraduate degree was from the University of Birmingham in English Literature and Theatre Arts.
PhD Project
Georgie Cockburn in a PhD candidate at the Centre for Dance Research at Coventry University. She is a recipient of the Arts and Humanities Research Council studentship awarded by Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership. My research is a Collaborative Doctoral Award in partnership with the national body for community dance, People Dancing. The project focuses on People Dancing's Live Well & Dance with Parkinson's programme, which provides dance for people living with Parkinson's and aims to involve people with lived experience of the condition at every level of decision making across six 'hubs'. My work uses a mixed methods approach to explore the programme and asks how it contributes to the lives of those living with Parkinson's. In extension, I ask how dance and dance research might support and sustain aspects of 'living well' for people with long term illness more generally.
PhD title: DANCE AS A CATALYST FOR LIVING WELL; EXAMINING THE POTENTIAL FOR LIVING WELL HUBS TO IMPROVE PEOPLE’S LIVES THROUGH DANCE
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
