In this episode, Will sits down with Sripadma Ganapathi, a third-year Dance PhD student of Roehampton's School of Arts. A dancer, and teacher, of Bharatanatyam, an Indian classical dance form, Sripadma shares details of her interdisciplinary research, which aims to create a dance-based warm-up routine for Bharatanatyam dancers to help reduce the form's high injury rates.
Her multidisciplinary mixed-method approach involves ethnographic sourcing movements from an ancient Hindu text, the Nāṭya Shāstra, and validating their effectiveness using motion capture technology, in collaboration with the School of Life Sciences.
We chat about the personal and academic journey to her doctorates, joys and pains, support and recommendations
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Chapters
00:08 Introduction
00:39 Sripadma's research
01:52 Collecting the data
03:05 Sripadma's journey to her PhD
05:22 Life beyond the PhD
06:27 Her favourite parts of the PhD
08:54 The most difficult parts
10:20 The support she got
11:23 The support she wish she got
12:30 Recommendations
13:15 Tips for health and wellbeing
14:18 Final words
15:18 Studio recap
The Roey Grad Podcast is a presentation of the University of Roehampton’s Graduate School.
Our theme music is by DiamondTunes
Our hosts are two PhDs of Roehampton, Charles Miller and Will Berard, who also edits and mixes the podcast. It was produced by Aaliyah Hassan.
Comments, questions, want to appear on the show? Get in touch at graduateschool@roehampton.ac.uk
