Dr Natasha Stott is a Senior Research Associate at the School of Digital Arts (SODA), Manchester Metropolitan University, working across interdisciplinary digital culture, creative education and immersive media practices.

Her research explores the relationships between bodies, projected image systems, digital environments and participatory experience through practice-based and intermedial methodologies. Situated between digital media, performance, visual culture and creative technologies, her work investigates how electro-embodied interaction and technological systems co-shape contemporary cultural experience.

Natasha is the creator of the Performance Projection Paradigm (PPP), a research framework examining electro-embodied ecologies and co-agency within immersive and intermedial environments. This research forms the basis of her forthcoming Routledge monograph, The Performance Projection Paradigm: Electro-Embodied Ecologies and Intermedial Praxis.

Alongside her monograph, Natasha is developing a growing body of scholarly outputs including journal articles and book chapters focused on digital embodiment, intermedial performance, immersive pedagogies, ecologies and participatory media practice.

Her work has been presented internationally through conferences, exhibitions, workshops and interdisciplinary teaching collaborations. Following award recognition at an international conference, she was invited to contribute teaching at the China Academy of Art, Shanghai, where her work explored dialogic design, electro-embodiment and collaborative creative methodologies. Elements of her practice-research approach have also been highlighted internationally as examples of innovative interdisciplinary pedagogy and intermedial practice.

Alongside her academic research, Natasha contributes to interdisciplinary public engagement and creative education initiatives exploring digital culture, participation and accessible learning. Her work focuses on developing inclusive, research-informed learning experiences across higher education, cultural and civic contexts, with a particular interest in creative digital pedagogy.

Natasha’s teaching and facilitation practice spans higher education, interdisciplinary workshops and collaborative creative environments. She is particularly interested in immersive media, embodied digital interaction, creative digital methods and the future relationship between human experience and technological systems.