Sarah Whatley is Professor and Director of the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) at Coventry University, UK. Her research interests extend to dance and disability, dance and new technologies, intangible cultural heritage, dance archives, and somatic dance practice and pedagogy; she has published widely on these themes. Whilst her expertise is primarily in dance, her research, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the European Commission, Leverhulme Trust and Wellcome Trust, is often interdisciplinary, collaborating with artists, designers and researchers from other disciplines including law, anthropology, psychology, digital media and computing science. Her current projects explore ‘what it means to perform’ and the interface between dance, disability, prosthetics and robotics. She Chairs the AHRC-sponsored ‘Dance Research Matters’ campaign. She was founding Editor of the Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices and sits on the Editorial Boards of several other Journals.
