Ava Hunt

Senior Lecturer

Ava Hunt is a theatre maker in TYA and the wider field of applied theatre with nearly 40 years of experience.  She trained with Augusto Boal and worked with Dorothy Heathcote in Mantle of the Expert practice. As a senior lecturer at University of Derby, delivering both undergraduate and postgraduate Applied Theatre programmes, she is currently working on her PhD.

Published research includes: the role of the bystander.  Current research explores: verbatim refugee stories, the effect of pornography on young people’s relationships and Creative Ageing.  

She has worked and delivered papers internationally including: Palestine, USA, New Zealand, Sweden, Norway, Sri Lanka, Soviet Union, Czech Republic, Romania, Australia, and India.

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Union of Diversity

ConnectUp sets in place an international cultural initiative for the target group 12+ in order to counteract the process of increasing social and cultural division across Europe. To achieve the aim of cultural inclusion it is essential to provide opportunities for young people to actively engage with different nationalities, cultures and social groups and to remain open to other people and life experiences.

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The University of Agder (Faculty of Fine Arts) is an internationally oriented university in Norway aiming to be on the cutting edge of innovation, education and research.

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ConnectUp is a larger scale cooperation project under the EU Culture Funding Stream Creative Europe for the four-year-period 12/2019 till 11/2023. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.