Peter Lovatt
Peter Lovatt is a British Psychologist who is famous for his work on the Psychology of Dance. Theo Merz, in the Daily Telegraph, refers to Peter Lovatt as the UK's pre-eminent Dance Psychologist. Peter Lovatt holds the academic post of Reader and Principal Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, where he runs the Dance Psychology Lab and carries out research in Dance for Parkinson's.
In the Media[edit]
Dr Lovatt’s work has been reported on TV, radio and in the national and international press, through which he has become known as Dr Dance. He has been invited to give many keynotes around the world and has delivered five TEDx talks (and dozens of TED-style talks) see TEDxOslo and TEDxObserver. Peter has been invited to appear on many popular TV shows, including Strictly Come Dancing: It takes two, The Graham Norton Show, The Alan Titchmarsh Show, Big Brother's (and Celebrity Big Brother’s) Bit on the Side see his IMDb entry here, and he has been interviewed on national radio programmes such as Saturday Live and Woman’s Hour (BBC Radio 4). Peter Lovatt has made two full length TV pilots in the UK and USA. He made Doctor Dance for Channel 4 (through Tiger Aspect) in 2012 and Doctor Happy for A&E network (through Brian Graden Media) in 2016.
Academic Expertise[edit]
Peter Lovatt's academic expertise is in experimental cognitive psychology and his work on memory [1][2][3][4][5], language learning [6][7], internet use [8], thinking & problem solving [9][10], dance [11] [12], and mood, dance and parkinson's disease [13] has been published in peer-reviewed academic journals.
Previous Academic Positions[edit]
Before moving to the University of Hertfordshire in 2004, Peter Lovatt was a senior lecturer at Kingston University (2001-2004), he worked in industry as a reserch scientist at Vox Generation (2000-2001), he held the post of Senior Research Fellow in the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics in the Faculty of English at Cambridge University (1998-2000) and was a lecturer in Psychology at the University of Greenwich in London (1996-1998).
Academic Education[edit]
Peter studied for a BSc (hons) in Psychology and English at the Roehampton Institute (degree awarded by the University of Surrey in 1993). In the same year he was awarded a national Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) scholarship to study for an MSc in Neural Computation at the Centre for Cognitive and Computational Neurosciences at the University of Stirling (degree awarded 1994) and following this he was awarded a full university scholarship to study for a PhD at the University of Essex (completing in 1998).
Theatre Shows[edit]
Peter Lovatt has made three full-length theatre shows:
- Dance Doctor, Dance: The Psychology of Dance Show (which premiered and ran for 23 nights at the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe
- INSPIRED: Psychology Danced (which premiered in 2011 at the Weston Auditorium in Hatfield, UK.)
- Boogie on the Brain (which premiered in Norwich in February 2018 before a national UK tour)
Books[edit]
Peter Lovatt's first academic book, Dance Psychology, the science of dance and dancers, was published in 2018.
External Links[edit]
Peter Lovatt's official agent is Arlington Talent Peter Lovatt's official website is PeterLovatt.com Peter Lovatt's University of Hertfordshire webspage is here
References[edit]
- ↑ Lovatt, P. J. & Bairaktaris, D. (1995). A computational account of phonologically mediated free recall. In (Eds.) L. Smith and P. Hancock. Neural Computation and Psychology. Springer Verlag.
- ↑ Lovatt, P.J. (1998). Immediate Serial Recall and the word-length effect. Unpublished Doctoral Thesis. University of Essex.
- ↑ Lovatt, P.J., Avons, S. E. & Masterson, J. (2000). The word-length effect and disyllabic words. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 53A, 1-22.
- ↑ Lovatt, P. J. & Avons, S. E. (2001). Re-evaluating the word-length effect. In (Ed.) J. Andrade Working Memory in Perspective. Psychology Press.
- ↑ Lovatt, P.J., Avons, S. E. & Masterson, J. (2002). Output decay in immediate serial recall: Speech time revisited. Journal of Memory and Language, 46 (1), 227-243.
- ↑ Williams, J.N. & Lovatt, P.J. (2003). Phonological Memory and Rule Learning. Language Learning, 53 (1), 67-121.
- ↑ Williams, J.N. & Lovatt, P.J. (2005). Phonological Memory and Rule Learning II. Language Learning, 55 (1), 177-233.
- ↑ Joiner, R., Gavin, J., Duffield, J., Brosnan, M., Crook, C., Durndell, A., Maras, P., Miller, J., Scott, A.J. & Lovatt, P. (2005). Gender, Internet Identification, and Internet Anxiety: Correlates of Internet Use. CyberPsychology & Behavior, 8(4), 371-378.
- ↑ Lewis, C. & Lovatt, P. J. (2013). Breaking away from set patterns of thinking: Improvisation and divergent thinking. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 9, 46-58.
- ↑ Lewis, C., Lovatt, P. & Kirk, E. (2015). Many hands make light work: The facilitative role of gesture in verbal improvisation. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 17, 149-157.
- ↑ Lovatt, P.J. (2011). Dance Confidence, age and gender. Personality and Individual Differences, 50, 668-672.
- ↑ Lovatt, P. (2013). Dance Psychology: The power of dance across behaviour and thinking. Psychology Review, 19 (1), 18-21.
- ↑ Lewis, C., Annett, L.E., Davenport, S., Hall, A. and Lovatt, P. (2016). Mood changes following social dance sessions in people with Parkinson's disease. Journal of Health Psychology, 21(4), 483-492.
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