Vida L. Midgelow, Dance Artist/Academic, joined Middlesex University as Professor in Dance and Choreographic Practices in 2012, where she leads the doctoral provision for the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries. As an artist-scholar she works on PaR methodologies, improvisation and articulation processes and has published widely in these areas. Her practice includes somatically informed improvisational works, performative lectures and installation/experiential performance practices/video works. She is editor of the Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance and is the principal researcher for the Artistic Doctorates in Europe project www.artisticdoctorates.com (Erasmus+ funded). Selected public works include: Skript (NottDance Festival), Scratch (In Dialogue, Nottingham Contemporary), Some Fleshy Thinking (Oxford University Press), Creative Articulation Process (CAP) (Choreographic Practices), Improvisation as Paradigm for Phenomenology (University of Illinois Press) and Practice-as-Research (Bloombury). With Prof Jane Bacon, Midgelow co-edits the hybrid peer reviewed journal, Choreographic Practices and co-directs the Choreographic Lab www.choreographiclab.co.uk and is currently an associate research artist at i4C4/ Dance4. mdx.ac.uk.