ResDance Series 3: Episode 11: Person-centredness, practice and advocacy with Karen Wood In this episode, Karen shares insight into the experiences and influences that continue to inform and shape her areas of practice.  Through discussing the core components of her practice, she reflects upon her interest in the experience of the moving body and the experiences of working, participating and viewing dance.  Karen advocates the importance of a person-centred approach and the need for greater support and advocacy for the freelance dance artist, with reference to her recent research focus.  In further highlighting the role dance can play in making social and environmental change, the value of collaboration and acknowledging individuality within the sector is shared. Karen is currently a dance practitioner, researcher and educator. She works at the Centre for Dance Research at Coventry University, as Assistant Professor and Associate Director of Birmingham Dance Network. Her current research interests are exploring concepts of collaboration, ethics of care and responsibility, collective identities and leadership in relation to freelance communities and cultural policy. She is a Board member for Wired Aerial Theatre and Chair of the Board for Vanhulle Dance Theatre.  For her artistic research, Karen uses the lens of phenomenology, particularly perception and embodiment, and improvisation to explore digital technology, screendance and contemporary dance and tap dance practices. Karen is passionate about working with artists to expand professional practice. She sees the value in artist-led initiatives and how they can create opportunity and encourage risk taking for dance making practices. Her work includes artistic research projects that have previously been supported by Arts Council England and involved collaborating with other art forms, such as neuroscience, fine art, lighting design and music.  Biography (Vision Statement) https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/persons/karen-wood   Contact details: Email: [email protected] Insta: @karenwoody2 Twitter: karenwood30   Centre for Dance Research: Twitter @CDaRE_CU Insta: cdare_cu  Birmingham Dance Network: Twitter @BrumDN Insta @brumdancenet   Other resources:    Petts, L., Artpradid, V., Hayward-Smith, L., Johnson, P. & Wood, K. (2022). The Shape of Sound: An exploration of our moving, felt, embodied hearing technologies, Riffs, 6(1), 27-43.   Wood, K. (2021). UK dance graduates and preparation for freelance working: the contribution of artist-led collectives and dance agencies to the dance ecology, Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, DOI: 10.1080/19443927.2021.1934530   Published resource: https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/about-us/researchnews/2018/c-dare-e-book/ Please share this episode with students, educators, practitioners, performers, and interdisciplinary researchers curious to learn more about dance research in action.