Dr Michelle Man is a highly committed and experienced academic who is passionate about curriculum design as a pathway for educational responsibility and as a means for ensuring democratic pedagogies that allow for the growth and development of both students and staff. She is the FAS Senior Fellow Lead for Learning and Teaaching, and her academic trajectory builds on a career as a performer, choreographer, pedagogue, advisor, and mentor that spans over thirty years and across a range of professional, institutional, and community contexts worldwide. Of British-Asian heritage, she is an advocate for promoting teaching and learning environments that are inclusive and celebrate diversity. Her research expertise focuses on interdisciplinary and collaborative performance making methodologies, which are rooted in an ethos of care, compassion, and celebration of other. These are the values she brings to creating sustainable and safe learning spaces that enable creativity, innovation, and a sense of community. Michelle lecturers in Dance delivering research embedded teaching with specialisms in: choreographic practice; improvisation and composition; dance analysis; collaborative performance making; embodied practices of flamenco, ballet, jazz and contemporary forms of dance; and mentoring of student projects.