Eilidh Slattery

Eilidh Slattery currently works full-time at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland on the PG Cert & MEd Learning and Teaching in the Arts programmes, working with arts educators from all educational, vocational and community settings. Eilidh has been awarded the status of Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) by AdvanceHE.

Before joining RCS, Eilidh trained as a dancer and dance teacher gaining teaching qualifications in multiple disciplines with the ISTD & RAD and taught in the UK and Ireland. Eilidh has experience teaching dance and choreographing productions for all ages in dance schools, community settings, nurseries, primary & secondary schools and in FE & HE settings. Eilidh later qualified as a GTCS registered primary school teacher and continued to explore dance and creative movement with learners alongside the rest of the school curriculum whilst also delivering CLPL dance events for staff and guest lecturing on several Initial Teacher Education programmes. In the primary education sector, Eilidh held roles of class teacher, specialist teacher, principal teacher and acting headteacher before moving into the position of Lecturer in Teacher Education at the University of Dundee working on both the undergraduate and postgraduate Initial Primary Teacher Education programmes, as well as the BA Childhood Practice, TQFE and MEd programmes. 

Eilidh’s research interests focus on dance and creative movement in primary education, and arts-based professional learning. Eilidh’s wider research interests are arts-based pedagogy, arts-based research methods, inclusive practice, and diversification of learning and teaching theory.

Eilidh was awarded funding from the RCS Athenaeum Award to support her Dance in the Primary School in Scotland research, which has now been shared through conference presentation to audiences nationally and internationally, and continues to develop.

To view the Dance in the Primary School in Scotland report please select under Latest Work and access the pdf document.

Contact: E.Slattery@rcs.ac.uk

Eilidh's Dance in the Primary School research has been well received when presented at:

The Scottish Educational Research Association (SERA) conference

The British Educational Research Association (BERA) conference

and will be shared in July 2024 at:

The Dance and the Child International (daCi) global dance education conference in Slovenia.

The research has also been featured in The Times Educational Supplement (TES), and publications by One Dance UK. Eilidh also shared her research as a guest on the ResDance podcast series.