Teaching in Higher Education

I am an Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London and a Visiting Lecturer at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in their BA and MA programmes. I have also taught at St. Mary's University, Queen Mary University and Edinburgh College. I am an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and I am completing my PgCert in teaching and Learning in Higher Education.

My areas of teaching/research includes:
- Applied Theatre/Socially engaged theatre practice
- Displacement and Refugee Theatre
- Devising and collaborative creation
- Creative Menstrual Health




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Research

Her words are heard - Collective theatre making as a healing experience. 
I am a PhD candidate at Queen Mary University of London, supervised across the Department of Drama and the Centre for Psychiatry. 
My practice- based research explores the experiences of collaborative theatre making, tests how such experiences can foster the integration of personal and collective content and interrogates what the resulting effects mean to participants in terms of wellbeing.
The research is based on the Luna Project - a theatre group of women who survived forced displacement and gender based violence

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Training

Beside teaching, I have been training Community Workers, Care Workers and NGO workers in different contexts, in the UK, in Italy and abroad including:
- Theatre for Development training organised by the British Council in Sri Lanka with NGO workers from Pakistan and Sri Lanka,
-  Training young people of the Horniman Museum Youth Panel, 
​- Training Young Refugees in Leadershio Skills

As a collaborator of Fondazione Verso, an organisation that promotes educational and training projects that encourage the harmonious development of the personality, inspired by the approach on education offered by Psychosynthesis,
​- I have delivered the training Mindful Educators to primary and secondary school teachers in Italy. 
​- I assisted psychotherapist and educator Andrea Bocconi in the delivery of a training for educators of the organisation Los Quinchos in Nicaragua. This organisation created and run a series of homes for the rescue and support of street children fleeing domestic abuse and drug addiction.