Lola the Vamp is an Australian dancer and part of the neo-burlesque movement. She is said to be the only burlesque performer in theatrical history to perform burlesque as part of her studies for the academic degree of PhD. She completed a creative component PhD involving the production of creative product and thesis at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia 2013. No revisions to her original submission were required,. "The examiners agree on the originality of this work as a combination of performance and writing about performance that addresses issues in the feminist field as well as making a striking contribution to performance studies. By going beyond the exploitation/empowerment binary and placing her work in the aesthetic discipline required for a number of traditional forms, the candidate moves the discussion about burlesque along and places it deep in our growing understanding of performance as a dynamic interplay between communicative craft and audience expectation".