Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword by Professor Vida L. Midgelow -- Foreword by Professor Sherril Dodds -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Research in dance -- About the book -- Dance writing -- Chapter 1 Designing your research project -- Finding a topic that moves you -- Connecting to the field -- Initial steps ... -- Strategies for locating relevant sources -- Shaping your inquiry -- Project scope -- Working title -- Research questions -- Aims and objectives -- Considering methods -- Chapter 2 Anchor points in your learning process -- Self-managing the dissertation process -- Setting your own deadlines -- Keeping your research focused -- Dissertation support -- Tutorials -- Drafts -- Study support services -- Peer support -- Working with research participants -- Ethics -- Interviews -- Commonly used research terminology -- Managing source material -- Library and research skills -- Resources for research -- Staying on top of a vast amount of research -- Bibliographies and referencing -- Conquering your demons -- Procrastination -- Finding good quality motivation and flow -- Finding your confidence -- Chapter 3 Thinking on your feet: the research process -- Methods and methodology -- Some established methodologies -- Analysis -- Ethnography -- Historiography -- Action research -- Phenomenology -- Experimental research -- Research philosophies -- Clusters of interest in dance -- Choreography -- Cultures -- Performance -- Histories -- Teaching and learning -- Community practice -- Media and technology -- Enterprise and business -- Science, health and wellbeing -- Chapter 4 Outward facing: presenting and communicating the research -- Modes of presentation -- Practice-based research outputs -- Documentation -- Structuring a large document creatively -- Critical mass? -- Introduction -- Conclusion