Dr Liam Jarvis is a Reader in Theatre and Performance at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama where he is Lead Tutor on the MFA in Advanced Theatre Practice and Research Lead for the Producing department. Liam co-founded Analogue, an award-winning independent theatre company with whom he created devised work that toured the UK/internationally between 2007-17. He has over 20-years of teaching experience and he received the Times Higher Education’s ‘Most Innovative Teacher of the Year’ Award in 2021. As a researcher, Liam was co-convenor of the Intermediality in Theatre & Performance Research Working Group at the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) from 2017-2021 and is Co-Editor of Methuen Drama’s book series, Performance and Digital Cultures. He co-authored the Theatre-Rites: Animating Puppets, Objects and Sites book with Dr Sue Buckmaster (Hon.) in 2021.