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Persephone Sextou
Persephone Sextou is professor in applied theatre for health and well-being and director of the Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts & Health at Canterbury Christ Church University. She is an adjunct at Griffith University and expert member of academic networks in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. Her research raises fundamental questions, in relation to immersive intimate bedside theatre combined with pedagogical frameworks, storytelling, puppetry, digital arts, and virtual reality (VR) and their impact on the mental well-being of hospitalized children and young people with serious conditions. Persephone is the author of Theatre for Children in Hospital: The Gift of Compassion (2016) by Intellect and Applied Theatre in Paediatrics: Children, Stories and Synergies of Emotions by Routledge (forthcoming 2022).
Contact: Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts & Health, Faculty of Medicine, Health & Social Care, Canterbury Christ Church University, North Holmes Road, Canterbury, Kent CT1 1QU, UK.