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Dr Jo Pollitt
Dr Jo Pollitt
Jo is a Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and Associate Director Creative Research Impact with the Centre for People, Place and Planet.
Current Teaching
- DAN3400 Improvisation
Background
Jo Pollitt is an artist scholar who lives and works on Whadjuk Noongar County. As a Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow with the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and Centre for People, Place & Planet at Edith Cowan University, her research is focussed on a long-term transdisciplinary project focussed on weather instability called ‘Staging Weather’. Grounded in a twenty-five year practice of working with improvisation as methodology, and with a choreopoetic practice of writing as dancing, her work is situated across multiple performance, choreographic, curatorial and publishing platforms. Jo was an inaugural Forrest Creative and Performance Leadership Fellow (2022), convenor of Dance Research Australia (2022-2025), and is co-lead of #FEAS: Feminist Educators Against Sexism. She is the author of The dancer in your hands (2019, UWA Press) and co-editor of Listening Pedagogies: Creative and Arts-Based Approaches for Education in Unstable Times (2026, Routledge).
Professional Associations
- Dance Research Australia (Convenor 2022-2026)
- Gender and Education (Editorial Board member)
- Climate Aware Creative Practices (CACP) (member)
- #FEAS Feminist Educators Against Sexism (Co-director)
- Artrage (Honorary Lifetime member)
Awards and recognition
- 2019 - Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts Research Medal
National and International awards
- 2022 -2023 Forrest Creative and Performance Leadership Fellowship
University and National Teaching Awards
- 2020 Awarded Best Group supervision as The Ediths. ECU School of Education
National and International Research Awards
- Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Raewyn Connell Award - Gender, Sexualities and Cultural Studies (2023-2025)
Research areas and interests
- Artistic research
- Bringing arts and science together through transdisciplinary and creative methods.
- Feminist Environmental Humanities, particularly weather
- Dance, particularly dance improvisation.
- Choreographic writing.
- Dramaturgy and curation
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