Artemi Papandritsa

Research topic during fellowship: Museum Tours for Inmates—the Ancient Greek Encounters

Artemi Papandritsa is an educator with extensive experience in prison populations, a researcher, and a member of the Museology Research Laboratory of the Ionian University, Corfu, Greece (MRL-IU). She firmly believes that education in its different forms, including correctional and museum education, can do miracles. Her research work and interests relate to correctional education. She graduated from the School of Philosophy and Education of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with a Master’s degree in Systematic Philosophy from the same university and Adult Education from the Hellenic Open University. She was awarded a PhD from the School of Philosophy, University of Ioannina, Greece. In 2021 she joined the Department of Archives, Library Science and Museology of the Ionian University, and in June 2022, she started post-doctoral research at MRL-IU on "Museum-based Correctional Education: The Educational Value and Significance of Creating Museum Activities and Spaces within Detention Facilities, in Combination with Second Chance Schools." This project is part of the "Museum Whispers in Panopticon" MRL-IU research program involving a series of digital tours to (and from) museums worldwide for the inmates/students of the Second Chance School in Corfu Prison. She has been a scholar at the Academy of Athens in the field of philosophy and a certified adult educator. For the last 10 years, she has worked in Second Chance Schools, including Second Chance Schools in correctional facilities. She has also taught at the National Confederation of People with Disabilities, Vocational Training Institutes, and Secondary Education. Additionally, she has worked as a career counselor, Greek language examiner, and evaluator. Her research work has been presented in several workshops and conferences, including the Falling Walls Lab 2016, hosted in Greece, with a presentation entitled "Breaking the Wall of Humanization of The Penitentiary System." She has participated as a scholar in mentoring and coaching programs for women, and she is into her continuous professional development by following various training programs, the most recent one being teaching Greek as a second or foreign language.

During her time as a CHS fellow, she will expand her postdoc research aiming to bring ancient Greek culture into male and female Greek prisons through museums and digital technology. This will further expand her research at the intersection of museums and prisons. Her extensive work experience with prison populations as an educator showcases her commitment and passion for promoting social inclusion and implementing innovative teaching for inmates.