Researcher

My Expertise

Prof Persephone Sextou is a leading expert in interdisciplinary applied theatre for health and wellbeing. Her co-design and co-production research model is informed by consultation with children in schools and hospitals and their families, nurses, teachers, mental health services and young people's advisory groups. She is widely published on applied theatre in paediatrics using bespoke acting, puppetry, object theatre, 3D installations, and digital arts (storytelling and film, VR) on the hospital wards and school classrooms. She uses mixed methodologies and tools to investigate the impact of arts-based research on the mental and social health and well-being of children and young people in education, health and palliative care. View Prof Sextou's website here: https://www.persephonesextou.co.uk

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Fields of Research (FoR)

Applied theatre, Digital and electronic media art, Paediatrics, Community child health, Palliative care

Biography

Persephone (Persefoni) Sextou is a Visiting Professorial Fellow at UNSW Sydney and a Professor in Applied Theatre for Health and Well-being at the Leeds Beckett University, Leeds School of Arts, in England. As a leading expert in Applied Theatre Performance in Paediatrics, her research focuses on the improvement of children's lives during hospitalisation. Her interdisciplinary applied research and curricula engagement with the community...view more

Publications

by Dr Persephone Sextou

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