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Professor Vicky Karkou holds the Chair of Dance, Arts and Wellbeing at Edge Hill University since 2013. She has academic and professional qualifications from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (BScEd, 1991), the University of Roehampton (PgDip 2001) and the University of Manchester (MEd 1994, PhD 1998). Before she moved to Edge Hill University she worked at the University of Hertfordshire and Queen Margaret University. In 2014 in recognition of her contribution to the development of arts therapies education in Latvia, she was offered the title of Honorary Doctorate of Medicine (MD - Honoris Causa) by Riga Stradins University. She has four book publications against her name:

Karkou V and Sanderson P 2006. Arts Therapies: A Research-based Map of the Field. Edinburgh: Elsevier.

Karkou V 2010 ed. Arts Therapies in Schools: Research and Practice. London: Jessica Kingsley.

Karkou V Oliver S and Lycouris S 2017. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing. New York: Oxford University Press.

Zubala A and Karkou V 2018. eds. Arts Therapies in the Treatment of Depression: International Arts Therapies Research. London: Routledge.