Rate My Professor Maria Chatzichristodoulou

Maria Chatzichristodoulou is Professor of Performance and Digital Transformation and Dean of Research and Knowledge Exchange at Chelsea, Camberwell, and Wimbledon Colleges of Arts, University of the Arts London. She earned a BA (Hons) in Theatre Studies with distinction from the University of Patras, Greece, in 1996, and a PhD in Art and Computational Technologies from Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2010. Her academic interests encompass live art, digital arts, socially engaged practice, creative health, curation, and creative industries policy within the creative economy. As a cultural practitioner, she has served as curator, producer, community organiser, and performer across the UK, Greece, and internationally. Maria is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media published by Taylor & Francis.

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.