Research Interests:
• Intercultural actor training

• Cognitive science (4E approaches with an emphasis on enaction, prediction, cognitive ecologies) and performance

• The pedagogy of Jacques Lecoq

• Physical theatre in pedagogy and practice
• Performer training
• Theories of the body in performance
• Approaches to movement in performance training
• Devising
• Practice as research
• Dance

My research centers on on body-based theatre practices, actor training methods, devising, cognitive science, and methodologies for researching embodied practices.

I have recently completed my second book, Practice, Research, and Cognition in Devised Performance (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues Series, 2025). This book is an interdisciplinary study of devised performance that charts the complex relations between ways of knowing in and about arts practice. This book explores what scientific approaches and practice as research (PaR) methodologies offer for performance research. With Dr. CHNG Hui Ting, Department of Pharmacy, I have conducted ongoing research in art-science polymathy for and through our interdisciplinary course, HS29212 Polymaths: Innovating Between Art and Science. In our course we have created what we call, "a comparative observational exercise" where we teach students a theatrical observational process and a scientific observational process, and then invite them to explore across both. Our Teaching Enhancement Grant with LEE Ryan Ray Yen, "Developing polymathic skills and attitude through a comparative observational exercise: an evaluation" investigates whether and how this technique might foster polymathic thinking. We are currently working on publications documenting our research. 

A recent publication in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, "Thinking again: Enaction as a resource for practice as research in theatre and performance," considers how the cognitive scientific approach of enaction might be of use to performance practice researchers. I also published a chapter on PaR in Asia in Robin Nelson's second edition of his book, Practice (as) Research in the Arts (and Beyond): Principles, Processes, Contexts, Achievements (2022). In Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (2021) I looked at imagination, predictive engagement, and affordances spaces from the perspective of an actor-creator inside the creation and performance process. Also in 2021, I published a Constructivist Foundations target article and author's response exploring the concept of autopoesis within the context of the liveness debates.

Future activiteis include work on my ongoing project, "Gazing Eastward," an cognitive investigation into Asian influences on Western and intercultural actor training and histories of intercultural training approaches.