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Persephone Sextou is Professor in Applied Theatre for Health and Wellbeing at Newman University in Birmingham, UK. She is the leading expert of bedside theatre for children in healthcare. She is also Adjunct Research Fellow at Griffith University in Australia developing pioneering inter-disciplinary research about the role of arts-based immersive technology in children's wellbeing in palliative care. 

She is the founder and artistic director of the Community and Applied Drama Laboratory (CADLab) at Newman. CADLab was set it up in 2010 with an Enterpreneurship Award from HEFCE & Unltd. CADLab is a research unit that develops knowledge-transferred projects for young populations in hospitals and hospices. she has received funding from The Lottery Community Fund, BBC Children in Need, NHS Arts and Charities to comtinue her arts-based research projects for children in hospital in partnership with the J.Brindley Academies at Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS.  In response to Covid-19, Persephone introduced bespoke Online resources such as animated films, educational packages and activities for hospitalised and isolated children due to the pandemic.  https://www.newman.ac.uk/research/cadlab/

She is also the author of  "Theatre for Children in Hospital. The Gift of Compassion" published with Intellect (2016) and 3 monographs in Greek. She is currently working on her monograph contracted by Routledge.

To view Professor Persephone Sextou's profile, click here: https://www.newman.ac.uk/staff/dr-persephone-sextou/