Sofie de Smet

Department

Department of Art, Music and Theatre Sciences

Research group(s)

S:PAM - Studies in Performing Arts and Media

Other institution(s)

Parental and Special Education Research Unit I Faculty of Psychology & Educational Sciences KU Leuven – University of Leuven

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About

Dr. Sofie de Smet is a postdoctoral researcher affiliated to the research group S:PAM (Ghent University) and the Parenting and Special Education Research Unit (KU Leuven). Sofie obtained her joint PhD in Psychology (KU Leuven) and Theatre Studies (Ghent University) in 2019 with her interdisciplinary dissertation on coping with collective violence and exile in applied theatre It will always be Temporary. In 2020 she received an FWO junior postdoctoral fellowship. Her current interdisciplinary research focuses on the development of refugee posttrauma care in the field of transcultural psychology and applied theatre in western host societies, including an analysis of the role of trauma narration in community-based mental health interventions.

Projects

Projects as postdoc

Towards a relational understanding of trauma narration in coping with collective violence and exile. The interdisciplinary development of community-based mental health interventions for refugee posttrauma care (2020 - 2023)

Projects as PhD researcher

Projects as researcher

Masks, puppets and performative objects as tools of critique, resistance and agency in South Africa. Developing a situational, embodied and postdramatic approach for dealing with the cultural trauma of apartheid (2014 - 2017)

Publications

Most recent publications

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