Dr Jo Ronan is Head of Contemporary Performance Practice at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland as well as an artist and practice-based researcher. Her research published in Routledge, Intellect and Taylor & Francis proposes a new dialectical model for non-hierarchical collaborative performance-making and spectatorship. She is the originator of Dialectical Collaborative Theatre. She was Associate Director with 7:84 (Scotland) directing productions such as, Eclipse by Haresh Sharma and The Algebra of Freedom by Raman Mundair, based on the unlawful shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. Jo pioneered new writing in Singapore, co-founding The Necessary Stage Theatre Company in 1987 and was its Associate Director till 1994 when she settled in Scotland. She will shortly be retiring from her post at the RCS and plans to focus entirely on her performance-making artistic practice as a solo artist and together with the theatre collective she founded, BloodWater Theatre. She will continue her her practice-based research on Dialectical Collaborative Theatre.