Aylwyn Walsh, University of Leeds

Aylwyn Walsh is a South African scholar-activist working on performance and social change as researcher and applied theatre practitioner. She is predominantly interested in feminist approaches, critical ethnographic methods and her research spans social, political and activist performance, radical pedagogies and intercultural performance as well as arts and mental health. Having worked between academia and professional practice since 2009, she conducts socially engaged research on place-based struggle and the value(s) of participation to intervene for social change.