DrChrysi Kyratsou

Dr Chrysi Kyratsou currently works as a Researcher on the EU-funded project Equal House, University College Dublin School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice. She was previously a Postdoctoral Researcher Fellow at the Research Ireland funded MUSPACE project, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, and before that, she held an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University College Dublin School of Music. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from Queen’s University Belfast (research project funded by a Northern Bridge DTP-AHRC Studentship), and degrees in Musicology & Music Education, and Ethnomusicology. Her research interests comprise musicking, encounters, (im)mobilities, (non)belonging, inclusion and inclusivity, (non)citizenship, refugeehood, asylum seeking, and creative practices. She works with qualitative, ethnographic, and arts-based methods.

Chrysi’s fieldwork research into refugees’ sheltering in reception centres explores how refugees’ aesthetic agencies are informed by their shifting backgrounds in which they live, how they shape their sociality, and how they can foster and enact potentials for multiple inclusions.