Eilidh Slattery
Eilidh Slattery works full-time at RCS on the PG Cert & MEd Learning and Teaching in the Arts programmes, working with arts educators from all educational, vocational and community settings. 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 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 age groups 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 is a graduate of the RCS MEd programme.
Learn more about Eilidh’s research on her RCS Portal page
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 presentations to audiences nationally and internationally and continues to develop.