Michelle Man MA, PhD, SFHEA

Dr Michelle Man classifies herself as a pracademic, being a Senior Lecturer in Dance and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy with a career as a performer, choreographer, pedagogue, advisor, and mentor that spans over thirty-five years and across a range of professional, institutional and community contexts worldwide.

As a committed and experienced pedagogue, she is passionate about curriculum design as a pathway for educational responsibility and as a means for ensuring democratic pedagogies that allow for the growth and development of both students and staff.

She holds an MA in Making Performance and a PhD from University of Surrey with the thesis Light and the Choreographic: Dancing with Tungsten. Her choreography and performance making is grounded in interdisciplinary and collective methodologies, collaborating extensively with performers, dancers, actors, circus artists, architects, composers, designers, musicians, and multi-media artists. 

Her work has been performed in throughout Europe and in Brazil, Chile, Canada, Korea, and the UK in in a diverse range of performance contexts. Of British/Asian heritage, Michelle’s research and work is rooted in an ethos of care, compassion, and celebration of other. She is recipient of One Dance UK’s Award for Most Inspirational Lecturer 2021.