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Dr Dawn H. Collins lectures with a focus on Buddhism, Hinduism, Death Studies and Sacred Geography. Her doctoral thesis, entitled ‘Presence in Tibetan Landscapes: Spirited Agency and Ritual Healing in Rebgong,’ was underpinned by ethnographic fieldwork on the Tibetan Plateau. Her interest in ‘lived religions’ is inspired not only by her anthropological experience but by her training and work as a contemporary dancer. She has supervised MA students at the London Contemporary Dance School and worked on research projects ranging from a British Academy funded exploration of contemporary ritual expression in Bhutan to background research for a documentary film about life in the Welsh valleys. She is a member of the Complementary Therapists Association (CThA), the International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine (IASTAM), the British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR), a Research Fellow of the Foro di Studi Avanzati Gaetano Massa (FSA, Gaetano Massa Research Institute for Advanced Study of the Humanities), Rome, and belongs to an international Research Group on the Body, Health and Religion (BAHAR).