Pauline Brooks is a Reader in Dance Performance and Pedagogy and Associate Dean for Quality in the Faculty of Education, Community & Leisure at Liverpool John Moores University. Her research is practice-led and involves dance performance, technology and pedagogy. Over the last the years, her research has involved collaboration in intermedial and telematic performance with colleagues in dance and music in USA, UK and Europe. In 2014 she was awarded the LJMU Vice Chancellor's Medal for Excellence for Teaching Innovation. Prior to lecturing at LJMU, she performed with Nexus Dance Theatre (Scotland), Springs Dance Co. (England), Ann Vachon/Dance Conduit and Sybil Dance Co. (USA) She has choreographed and taught extensively in the UK and overseas.