Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley
Dr Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley (she/her) is a Lecturer in Dance at University of Roehampton UK, where she teaches postgraduate dance and choreography students. In 2015 she completed a BSc in Acupuncture, and she specialises in palliative care. Her PhD students explore grief narratives, empathy and affective exchange, concepts of with-ness and witness. Her 2017 book ‘Between Us: Audiences, Affect and the In-between’ celebrates spaces which cause an affecting, and bodies affected. Bob completed the first joint practice as research PhD to be undertaken within a UK arts discipline in 2004 with Lee Miller, and they bring performance, installations, performance text and objects to international audiences.