Tamara Witschge
Professor Creative Media for Social Change – Expert creative methods, artistic research and design for social change
Tamara Witschge is Professor of Creative Media for Social Change. Together with partners, she develops and tests how imagination and connection can be strengthened through creative interventions.
Expertises
Creative Methods | Social change | Interrogative design | Artistic research | Imagination and connection
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More about Tamara Witschge
Within the research group Creative Media for Social Change, Tamara and her colleagues develop projects that centre imagination, doubt and empathy. They do so in collaboration with students, researchers, journalists, artists, and social partners.
Tamara was trained as a social scientist and obtained her PhD in 2007 at the University of Amsterdam, at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research. She previously worked at Cardiff University and Goldsmiths, University of London, and held a Chair in Media and Cultural Industries at the University of Groningen until 2021.
She is also (co-)author of several publications, including Making a Difference with Media (Dutch), The Art of the Scientific Story (Dutch), and Beyond Journalism (opens in new window).
