Rikke Gürgens Gjærum
Job description
Pro-Rector for Education. I am responsible for education at UiT and serve as the Rector’s deputy. As Pro-Rector, I lead the Strategic Education Committee and the Strategic PhD Committee.
Office in Tromsø: Administration Building, 3rd floor, Room B. 373.
Office in Harstad: Havnegaten 5, 3rd floor, Room 328.
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Publications outside Cristin
https://app.cristin.no/persons/show.jsf?id=35801
Research interests
I am a professor of drama/theatre with a PhD from NTNU, hold a master’s degree from the University of Oslo, am trained as a drama educator from OsloMet, and have a teacher education from the University of Stavanger. I have conducted research since 1998, defended my PhD in 2004, became a professor in 2011, and have led numerous projects. What characterizes these projects is that they are all designed within a participatory research paradigm and focus on equality, aesthetics, and societal participation. Topics of particular interest to me include: applied theatre, arts & health, disability art, inclusive research, pragmatic aesthetics, poetry and theatre as research dissemination, drama pedagogy, education policy, everyday consequences of Covid, performance ethnography, Arctic humanities, dementia, the CRPD, and community science.
My research is connected to the Arctic Centre for Welfare and Disability Research: https://uit.no/research/asvf
and the group Artful Dementia Research Lab: https://uit.no/research/adlab
Teaching
Aesthetic subjects, scientific theory and method, pedagogy, social innovation, disability art, inclusive research design, creativity, academic writing, process-oriented writing, script development, and poetry as a means of research communication, communication, and presentation techniques
