Dr Lisa Thomas
BA, MPhil, PhD
Current positions
Senior Research Associate
School for Policy Studies
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures
Principal Investigator
Role
Researcher
Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
01/05/2022 to 30/04/2027
VR and dance-somatic practices as tools for embodied perception and living well in our environment
Principal Investigator
Description
An environment impacts directly on the health and wellbeing of the people who move within it, and also the way in which they move and interact. Environments are perceived through…Managing organisational unit
Department of TheatreDates
25/02/2019 to 19/07/2019
Publications
Recent publications
26/04/2024Assembling with VR
Exchanges: The Warwick Research Journal
Exploring How Virtual Reality Could Be Used to Treat Eating Disorders
JMIR
Employing a Dance-Somatic Methodological Approach to VR to Investigate the Sensorial Body across Physical-Virtual Terrains
Multimodal Technologies and Interaction
Returning to the Body
Body, Space and Technology
Reflections on bodies in lockdown: The Touch Diaries (2016) and The Lockdown Touch Diaries (2020)
Multimodality & Society
Thesis
Investigating the Somatic Body in Virtual Reality
Supervisors
Award date
24/06/2021
Related people
Professor Ian Penton-Voak
Professor of Evolutionary Psychology
School of Psychological Science
Professor Debbie Watson
Professor In Child and Family Welfare
School for Policy Studies
Professor Adrian Mulholland
Professor
School of Chemistry
Dr Mari-Rose Kennedy
Senior Research Associate
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Dr Helen Deeks
Research Software Engineer for Composites Simulations
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering