current:

Sue is completing a practice-led PhD in Dance & Choreography at Edinburgh College of Art, supported by the Edinburgh Studentship, supervised by Dr. Sophia Lycouris, Prof. Andy Clark and Dr. Mark Wright. Her research explores how choreographic and somatic practices, philosophy, and mediation through performance and technology can be employed in the critical engagement of concepts of embodiment. The key emergent themes are of attention, memory, language and gesture, and the potential of touch as a choreographic medium.
She is a member of CIRCLE research group.

publications:

Hawksley, S. (2009) re-membering(s): Being There and Then, and Here and Now
Premise [online journal by research students at Edinburgh College of Art and The University of Edinburgh] October 2009.

Biggs, S; M. Dima; H. Ekeus; S. Hawksley; W. Timmons; M. Wright. (2009) The 'H' n HCI: enhancing perception of the interactive through the performative In: Virtual and Mixed Reality. Proceedings of HCI International 2009 Conference, San Diego, CA. Berlin: Springer

Biggs, S., S. Hawksley (2006) Memory Maps in Interactive Dance Environments
International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Vol 2.2 pp.123-137.

presentations:

2011:

Workshop on Neuroscience and Dance University of Glasgow, 11th August 2011
Presentation: haptic_dance

Dance and Somatic Practices Conference University of Coventry, 8th - 10th July 2011
Paper: Choreographic and Somatic Strategies for Navigating Bodyscapes

Embodied Values Seminar series - Senses in motion. IASH University of Edinburgh, 1st July 2011
Presentation: haptic_dance

Bodies in Movement University of Edinburgh, 28th - 29th May 2011
Paper: Bodytext: speech, script, (re)action, iteration. An enactive, interactive inquiry into embodiment and language.

2010:

Figures of the Visceral Centre for Film, Performance and Media Arts, University of Edinburgh, 22nd - 23rd September 2010
Paper: Body-scapes and tensegrity-schemata: performative strategies for negotiating multiple-selves and unstable environments.
Performance: Bodytext

Theroizing Creativity: embodiment, enaction and its (a)logical signature IASH, University of Edinburgh, 8th June 2010
Paper: Work in movement: enactive performance

Watching Dance: Kinaesthetic Empathy University of Manchester 22nd - 23rd April 2010
Movement workshop and Poster Tactile Manoeuvres: touch and intention in dance

Edinburgh College of Art Research seminar series
Panel discussion on Kinaesthesia: The Fuzzy Physicality of Being Edinburgh College of Art 3rd February 2010

Philosophy of Cognitive Science Doctoral Group ("DoG") Workshop University of Edinburgh, 15th March 2010
Paper: What choreographic, compositional and mediation strategies might engage, challenge or reveal the (dancing) embodied mind?

2009:
Making Music for Dance, Making Dance with Music University of Aberdeen/DanceLive @ Sound festival, 1st November 2009
Joint presentation with composer Suzanne Parry: re-membering(s)

Dissolving Borders: Sustainability, Dance Ecology and the Moving Body Northumbria University, 22nd January 2009
Paper: Valuing old Vines

2008:
Locating Inheritance: past + future. School of Arts, Culture and Environment, University of Edinburgh & Edinburgh College of Art postgraduate research student conference.
Paper: The Muscle is a Mind?