Alex Boyd (Cert Ed, PhD, FRSA) has a passion for enabling interdisciplinary and intercultural collaboration based on ethics of equity, integrity, respect and mutual benefit. He is conceiver and a cofounder of the Embodied Research Working Group at IFTR, the International Federation for Theatre Research, from which he founded and is Executive Director for Intercultural Roots. He is a practitioner-researcher who graduated from the University of California at Davis PhD programme with a focus on the fields of Performance Studies and Critical Education and where he is an honorary Research Associate. Dr Boyd's 2014 dissertation, ‘The Sustainability of Traditional Knowledge Systems’, draws on 3 decades of professional work, developing and producing innovative community-led applied arts and culture projects for which he has raised over £8M nonprofit funding.  The roots of his practice-as-research, is Chinese Daoist embodied culture and his contributions have empowered hundreds of practitioners in the UK, Europe and North America. This includes co-developing and co-coordinating at Leeds Trinity University, 2012-2017, the first degree course in the west to recognise the embodied knowledge inherent in traditional eastern practice. Alex was born in Irvine, Scotland and is currently based in Ilkley, Yorkshire with his family and enjoys writing unfinished songs for the guitar, and can often be found wandering playfully up on the moors or down by the river.

Specialism: Breath/Energy Work, Creative Labs, Dance, Eco-Somatic, Fascia, Folk Dance, Environment/Conservation/Eco-Embodied/Horticulture, Massage, Practitioner Lab, Qi Gong, Somatic, Tai Chi and Collaboration, Funding, Nonprofit Organisational Development