International Health Humanities Network Membership

Sara Houston is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Dance at University of Roehampton.  Her area of specialism is in community dance, in particular concentrating on dance for socially marginalised groups, including prisoners and specific groups of older people.  In 2011 she won the Bupa Foundation Vitality for Life Prize for her work examining the effects and experience of dancing for people with Parkinson's.  Sara is working with English National Ballet until 2015 leading a mixed-methods (ethnographic and bio-mechanic) research project focusing on English National Ballet's Dance for Parkinson's group.  Sara has published articles in the leading academic dance journals and in edited collections.  She is Chair of the Board of Directors and Trustees of the Foundation for Community Dance.