Warm welcome to postdoc Giedre Straksiene

The Department of Arts Education at HVL campus Stord is happy to present a new colleague. Giedre Straksiene, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher in the Global Science Opera, in the context of HVL’s University project.

Giedre’s main research area focuses on development of communicative competence, various teaching/learning drama methods which are applicable in development of communicative competence. She believes that with and through the arts, learners are able to analyse, understand and perceive learning material in complex socio-cultural approach, and playfull way. A second interest is information visualization and communication, and relationships of this phenomena for contemporary art-science context.

Read more about Giedre Straksiene here.