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Lee Davall

Head of Learning & Teaching

Lee has taught in a range of inner-city contexts from challenging schools and community schools to high-achieving specialist performing arts schools. Lee has extensive experience in delivering the Secondary dance curriculum including KS3, GCSE, AS Level, A2 Level, BTEC Level 2 First Diploma and BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma in Dance.

Lee has held a number of leadership positions that have required strategic planning, implementation and management. In addition to this, Lee has taught in the private dance sector a range of dance styles for graded exams and competition dances. Most recently, Lee worked as Director of Dance for a selective Performing Arts Academy for students aged 14-19 years, with an aptitude for Dance. Lee currently works as a Lecturer in Dance Education in the Faculty of Education at RAD and has recently been promoted to Head of Learning & Teaching from August 2023.

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Qualifications

BA (Hons) (First Class), PGCE with QTS, MTeach (Dance) (Distinction).

Teaching and management

Head of Learning & Teaching, Lecturer in Dance Education

Lee tutors on the following programmes:

  • BA (Hons) Ballet Education
  • Master of Arts in Education (Dance Teaching) – Programme Manager
  • PGCE: Dance Teaching

Research interests and projects

Lee’s research interests include teaching, learning and management in compulsory sectors of education. Lee is particularly interested in cooperative learning and the use of assessment, predominantly peer assessment in raising achievement. Lee is also interested in the training and development of Gifted and Talented students with high-achieving Performing Arts specialist contexts. Furthermore, Lee has a keen interest in the tutoring process and use of house systems to promote a sense of community and competition within school contexts.

Research supervision

Postgraduate research, including dance pedagogy in secondary education, private sector and community sectors.

Publications

  • Davall, Lee. ‘Can’t Stand Still: Keep Enhancing Your Dance Provision’ Focus on Education, Issue 31 (July 2022) ISSN 2754-9909.
  • Davall, Lee. ‘21st Century Expectations Part 3: Teaching in China’ Focus on Education, Issue 27 (November 2020).
  • Davall, Lee. ‘21st Century Expectations Part 2: How the dance teacher remains relevant in the state sector’ Focus on Education, Issue 26 (July 2020).
  • Davall, Lee. ‘21st Century Expectations Part 1: How the dance teacher remains relevant in the private sector’ Focus on Education, Issue 25 (April 2020).
  • Davall, Lee. ‘After the RAD: Making an impact on dance in UK State Education’ Focus on Education, Issue 23 (July 2019).
  • Davall, Lee. ‘Assessing Dance: through Peer Assessment’ Focus on Education, Issue 22 (March 2019).
  • Davall, Lee. ‘Inclusive Experiences: Teaching One and All’ Focus on Education, Issue 20 (March 2018).
  • Davall, Lee. ‘Repertoire in the Classroom’ Focus on Education, Issue 19 (November 2017).

Conference presentations

2023: Roundtable contributor: “A Resilient future for Dance in Higher Education?” (with Dr Frances Clarke, Dr Naomi Lefebvre Sell, Professor Ann R David and Erica Stanton). A resilient future? (Discourse and celebration of Arts practice, research and teaching and learning in Higher Education out of turbulent times), Northern Contemporary School of Dance, Leeds, UK.

“Educating Dance Teachers online: Lessons of a decade to informing the future”, Conference paper at A resilient future? (Discourse and celebration of Arts practice, research and teaching and learning in Higher Education out of turbulent times), Northern Contemporary School of Dance, UK.

2017: Panel Contributor: “Dance Teaching as a Graduate Profession: opportunities and challenges” (with Michelle Groves, Janine Streuli), Dance Fields: Staking a Claim for Dance Studies in the 21st Century conference, University of Roehampton, April 2017.

2015: ‘Developing leadership skills: becoming constructive at KS3’. Conference paper at Championing Dance in Schools: Celebrating the Past and Shaping the Future, NDTA Conference, Trinity Laban, UK, October 2015.

‘Dance Education: Making a Difference’. Keynote presentation with Fiona Brooker at Harris Federation Conference, Harris Academy Falconwood, London, UK.

Professional activities

External Examiner, BIMM University, 2020-2024

Cultural Learning Alliance

Associate Member of British Arts Awards

Honorary role as Secretary and Board Member of the Society of Dance Research (SDR, UK)