Rebecca is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and has extensive experience of teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses on a variety of practical and theoretical modules in University education settings.
Her specialist knowledge and expertise in sound, curatorial strategies, and performance informs and drives both her research and teaching practices. She has knowledge of a range of research techniques and methodologies including critical theory, aesthetics, and practice-based research.
Rebecca teaches Visual Culture, Contemporary Art Theory & Practice across the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) predominantly in relation to artistic research, sound art, and critical thinking.
Rebecca designed the specialist course ‘Gendered Soundings? Sound Art and Feminisms’ which brings her interest in sonic practices into dialogue with critical feminist theory. To date the course has run twice and was redesigned in 2020 for online delivery, to great acclaim. Alumni from the course have published work in peer-reviewed journals, had their practice accepted to prestigious platforms and been accepted onto international postgraduate study programmes on.
Rebecca has supervised undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations on a range of topics including gender, visual aesthetics, sound, art writing and fiction. She has also acted as internal examiner on a number of PhD thesis.
Rebecca has over 1000+ hours of teaching experience, including course organizer roles and personal tutoring in Higher Education Institutions. She has taught undergraduate, postgraduate, MSc, PhD students and supervised a number of dissertations and PhD thesis. She has written and proposed new courses, designing bespoke materials and assessments.
Undergraduate
Year 1
Approaches to Visual Culture, University of Edinburgh
Approaches to Theatre, University of Leeds
Introduction to Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Edinburgh
Studio Practices, University of Leeds
Performance, Theatre and Music: Interdisciplinary approaches, University of Leeds
Performance Project 1: From Text to Performance, University of Leeds
Drama, Reading and Interpretation, University of Leeds
Studying Theatre I, Aberystwyth University
Studying Theatre II, Aberystwyth University
Key Theatre Practices, Aberystwyth University
Year 2
Artistic Research 2, University of Edinburgh
Critical and Cultural Theories of Contemporary Art, University of Edinburgh
Art Now: Theories, Practices, and Institutions (course designer and course organizer, 130+ students & managing 4 tutors), University of Edinburgh
Debating Dramaturgies, University of Glasgow (invited)
Interpreting Theatre and Performance Histories, University of Leeds
Creative Practice and Performance Contexts (course designer and course organizer, 100+ students, & managing 4 staff lecturers), University of Leeds
Researching Theatre and Performance, University of Leeds
Practices of Performance 3: Processes, University of Leeds
Theatre, Society and Self, University of Leeds
Contemporary European Theatre, Aberystwyth University
Performance Composition, Aberystwyth University
Theatre Production, Sunderland University
Year 3
Gendered Soundings? Sound Art and Feminisms (course designer and course organizer, online version written & delivered 2021) University of Edinburgh
Contemporary Art in Digital Culture (course designer and course organizer), University of Edinburgh
Artistic Research -Themes and Methods University of Edinburgh
The Practical Essay, University of Leeds
Independent Research Project, University of Leeds
Performance Project, University of Leeds
Processes of Performance 5: Independent Practice, University of Leeds
Performance and Architecture, Aberystwyth University
Year 4 (Scottish University system)
Visual Culture Dissertation (10 x students per year 2019-2021), University of Edinburgh
Postgraduate
Master in Contemporary Art Practice (course designer and course organizer), University of Edinburgh
Master in Contemporary Art Theory, University of Edinburgh
Methods in Artistic Research, University of Edinburgh
Themes in Contemporary Art, University of Edinburgh
TPG Cultural Turns, University of Edinburgh
TPG Methods, University of Edinburgh
TPG Practices, University of Edinburgh
TPG Visual Cultures
Performance and Collaborative Enterprise, University of Leeds
Performance Analysis and Project Design, Aberystwyth University
Politics Media and Performance, Aberystwyth University
Ways of Working, Aberystwyth University
Writing Research Methods, Aberystwyth University
Visual Culture and Performing Arts, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (invited)
TPG Independent Research Project Supervision: Burlesque & Feminism, University of Leeds
PhD Supervision
2021 – 2024 Second Supervisor for Federica Cologna (institutional scholarship)
‘Art as Collective Action: Towards an Alternative Future for Democracy’
2017- 2020 First Supervisor for Naomi Pearce (SGSAH scholarship)
‘Every Contact Leaves a Trace: A Forensic Feminist Investigation into Women Administrators, Gentrification and the Artist Studio’ (completed)
PhD Examination as internal examiner
2021 ‘Women Artists and Still Life in London, Paris and the Spaces Between, 1900-1939’
External Examiner: Ruth Hemus
‘Doing the Crease: Text as Subject in a Liberation of Folds’
External Examiner: Holly Pester
‘Make Belief – The Art of Inventing Religion’
External Examiner: Brian Catling
2020 ‘Mouthwork: Public Address and Laboured Expression’
External Examiner: Catherine Grant
2019 ‘I Don’t Know Where Paradise Is: Queer Paths through Museums and Libraries’
External Examiner: Mark Turner
‘Mouthwork: Public Address and Laboured Expression’
External Examiner: Tai Shani
2018 ‘Workshops: Investigating and Developing Participatory Environments for Artistic Learning’
External Examiner: Emma Cocker
‘Following Witches: Entanglement of Bodies in the Politics of Free Improvisation’
External Examiner: Lisa Busby