Staff Profile

Roles & Responsibilities

Pip is a Lecturer in Management and Doctoral Candidate in the Leadership, Work and Organisation Subject Group. Her scholarly work contributes to understandings of identification, harm, health and wellbeing. Pip has recently completed training in translational research with Newcastle University's Policy Academy and welcomes policy engagement in her areas of expertise.

Background

Pip has a background in dance professional practice, corporate wellness and mind body practices for wellbeing. She has devised small to mid scale programmes for a wide range of organisations including the National Health Service (NHS), Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), interdisciplinary collaborations and artists. She most recently delivered wellbeing programmes for staff and students in a secondary school.

Pip was previously a Trustee for the Rape and Sexual Abuse Counselling Centre (County Durham & Darlington) working to end rape and sexual violence and is an advocate for Young Adult Hip Preservation in the North East.

Qualifications

• MA Arts, Business and Creativity, Newcastle University Business School
• BA Dance Professional Practice, Dance City

Fellowships

• Translational Research & Policy Engagement, Newcastle University

Memberships

• Safer Dance
• International Association for Dance Medicine and Science

Research Contribution

Pip's scholarly work contributes to understandings of identification, harm, health and wellbeing.

Research Focus

Pip's current research focuses on the identity work of professional dancers. Major themes that have emerged from this research include experiences of maltreatment, the need to better safeguard dancer welfare and progress understandings of interpersonal violence in dance. Pip is focused on advancing safe dance through this research.

Pip is interested in conducting research with charities supporting survivors of rape and sexual violence, as well as integrated care pathways for young adult hip preservation and women's health.

Research Interests

• Identification
• Harm
• Health & Wellbeing
• Translational research and policy engagement

Current Projects

Pip is Principal Investigator on a project co-producing pro-equity policies with dance professionals funded by Research England. This research is focused on advancing safe dance.

2024: Coproducing pro-equity policies with dance professionals, Research England, QR Policy Support Fund, Newcastle University, £15,000 (Principal Investigator).

Previous Projects

Pip has previously been involved in several projects exploring identification, health and wellbeing.

2023: Identification and sense of belonging to a rural place (The Derbyshire Peak District) Impact upon the ability to attract and retain workers from the employer’s and the policy making perspective, National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise Funding, £14,507 (Research Assistant, Newcastle University Business School and University of Derbyshire). 

2020: Enabling children and young people's involvement in whole system action to reduce inequalities in the social determinants of health (SPHR/Fuse/WP4), National Institute for Health Research, £760,907.81 (Research Assistant, Fuse, Durham University, Sport and Exercise Sciences). 

2019: Research Evaluation, Queer Arts North, a pilot network of strategic partners championing and advocating for LGBTQIA+ arts performance and practice, £2000 (Research Evaluator, Curious Arts). 

2019: Identifying relevant topics in demonstrating examples of where research is embedded within teaching delivery, across Newcastle University (Research Assistant). 

Pip has taught and led a variety of modules at Newcastle University in creativity, organisation and management studies, and research methods for undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Pip currently teaches and supervises undergraduate students on the following modules.

• BUS1015 Introduction to Management and Organisation
• BUS2019 Understanding Work and Organisations
• BUS2025 Managing Human Resources
• BUS3051 Management Dissertations

Pip also teaches postgraduate students on the following modules.

• NBS8649 Developing Leadership Perspectives

• Articles

  • Dodds-Reynolds C, Griffin N, Kyle P, Scott S, Fairbrother H, Holding E, Crowder M, Woodrow N, Summerbell C. Young people's experiences of physical activity insecurity: a qualitative study highlighting intersectional disadvantage in the UK. BMC Public Health 2024, 24, 813.
  • Fairbrother H, Woodrow N, Crowder M, Holding E, Griffin N, Er V, Dodd-Reynolds C, Egan M, Lock K, Scott S, Summerbell C, McKeown R, Rigby E, Kyle P, Knights N, Quirk H, Goyder E. ‘It depends on where you were born…here in the North East, there’s not really many job opportunities compared to in the South’: young people’s perspectives on a North-South health divide and its drivers in England, UK. BMC Public Health 2024, 24, 2018.
  • Griffin N, Crowder M, Kyle P, Holding E, Woodrow N, Fairbrother H, Dodd-Reynolds C, Summerbell C, Scott S. 'Bigotry is all around us, and we have to deal with that': Exploring LGBTQ+ young people’s experiences and understandings of health inequalities in Northern England. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health 2023, 3, 100263.
  • Fairbrother H, Woodrow N, Crowder M, Holding E, Griffin N, Er V, Dodd-Reynolds C, Egan M, Lock K, Scott S, Summerbell C, McKeown R, Rigby E, Kyle P, Goyder E. 'It All Kind of Links Really': Young People’s Perspectives on the Relationship between Socioeconomic Circumstances and Health. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2022, 19(6), 3679.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Kyle, P, Procter, S. Dancing with dissonance: The identity work of professional dancers. In: British Academy of Management. 2024.
  • Kyle P. Dancing with dissonance: The identity work of professional dancers. In: 34th Annual Conference of the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science. 2024, Rimini, Italy: IADMS.
  • Kyle, P. Dancing with Critical Resilience: Implications for Disabled Dance Artists. In: People Dancing & FABRIC: Inclusion in Dance Network ‘Sharing, Learning & Working Together’. 2024.
  • Kyle P. Developing pro-equity policies with professional dancers. In: 34th Annual Conference of the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science. 2024, Rimini, Italy: IADMS.

• Report

  • Foster C, Kirk S, Kyle P. Attracting and retaining staff in rural areas: A Toolkit for employers. NICRE: University of Derby & Newcastle University Business School, 2024.