Rate My Professor Maria Chatzichristodoulou

From 2020 to 2024, she was Associate Dean for Research, Business and Innovation at Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, leading submissions to four Units of Assessment in REF 2021 with successful outcomes, contributing to Knowledge Exchange Framework narratives, co-leading the restructuring of the research and knowledge exchange environment, and developing four new Research and Knowledge Exchange Institutes. Previously, at London South Bank University’s School of Arts and Creative Industries, she held positions as Director of Enterprise, Head of Department, and Director of the Research Centre. She taught Theatre, Performance, and New Media at the University of Hull and Birkbeck, University of London, and served as Visiting Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London and Goldsmiths. Key publications include Live Art in the UK: Contemporary Performances of Precarity (editor, Bloomsbury, 2020), Intimacy Across Visceral and Digital Performance (co-editor with Rachel Zerihan, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), and Interfaces of Performance (co-editor, 2009). She is Principal Investigator on the UKRI-funded Abundance Project (£1.3 million), mobilising cultural and green community assets to address mental health inequalities, and has led the £1.4 million ERDF-funded ACE IT project, alongside initiatives supported by BIG South London Partnership, AHRC, Innovate UK, Arts Council England, Erasmus, Creative Europe, and other funders.