Fabiola Camuti

Fabiola Camuti (she/her), Ph.D., is Professor of Critical Creative Pedagogies at HKU University of the Arts Utrecht. She has been a visiting researcher and practitioner in various countries and institutions (Italy, France, Denmark, UK, US, NL), as well as a researcher and lecturer at the Departments of Theatre Studies (University of Amsterdam) and Media and Culture (Utrecht University), and at the Professorship Art Education as Critical Tactics (ArtEZ University of the Arts). She conducts research, leads projects, and gives seminars on topics including artistic research, socially-just pedagogies and pedagogies of care, participatory arts, arts education and neurodiversity. She is founder and leader of two research groups, Critical Unlearning Spaces and Queer Care, collecting students, university staff, junior & senior researchers. She has published on participatory arts, creativity and care, theatre pedagogies, and decolonial perspectives on arts education. Additionally, she serves as program leader Research in Education for the KUO sector (Association of Universities of Applied Sciences), where she coordinates a national working group aimed at strengthening the knowledge ecosystem and research culture within art universities, and is chair of the HKU Research Ethics Committee. Since 2025, Fabiola is Comenius Leadership Fellow with the granted project ‘FRAME: Framework for Research Methods and Skills in Arts Education’. This aims at creating sharedresearch languages – bottom-up, with various study programmes, course leaders and students. This will further strengthen the connection between research and education at HKU.