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Maria Chatzichristodoulou is Professor of Performance and Digital Transformation, Dean of Research and Knowledge Exchange at Chelsea, Camberwell and Wimbledon Colleges of Arts, and a scholar and cultural practitioner. She has worked as curator, producer, community organiser and performer in the UK, Greece and internationally.
As Associate Dean for Research, Business and Innovation at Kingston School of Art (KSA), Kingston University (2020-2024), Maria led KSA’s submission to 4 Units of Assessment in REF ‘21 with successful results and contributed to Kingston University’s KEF submissions.
She also co-led on the University’s restructuring of its research and Knowledge Exchange (KE) environment and the development of 4 new Research and KE Institutes (KERIs), as well as Kingston University’s policy work around the Future Skills campaign.
She is Principal Investigator of the UKRI-funded ‘Abundance Project’ (£1.3M), which aims to tackle health inequalities around mental health through mobilising cultural and green community assets.
Maria has led on KE projects funded by BIG South London Partnership (BIG Creative Industries Network, BIG Design Lab, BIG Creative and Digital Innovation Cluster) and the £1.4M ERDF project ACE IT (Accelerating the Creative Economy through Immersive Technologies), as well as research and innovation projects funded by the AHRC, Innovate UK, Art Council England, Erasmus, Creative Europe, regional funders and foundations.
As a scholar Maria works in the fields of live art, digital arts, socially engaged practice, creative health, curation, and creative industries policy /creative economy.
She is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media (IJPADM) (Taylor & Francis).
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