Artful Evaluation for Creative Health and Wellbeing DE

Molly Mullen works at Waipapa Taumata Rau/University of Auckland, New Zealand. With a professional background in children’s theatre, youth theatre, applied theatre, and arts education, her research focuses on the intersection of policy, funding, and practice in applied theatre and socially engaged arts. She has published extensively, including Applied Theatre: Economies (2018), and is the co-editor of Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance .

Rand Hazou  is a Palestinian theatre practitioner and scholar whose work explores arts engaging with rights and social justice. In 2004, he was commissioned by the UNDP to work in the Occupied Territories in Palestine as a theatre consultant running workshops for Palestinian youths. In Aotearoa, he has led teaching and creative projects with prison, aged-care, and street communities. From 2019 to 2024, he was a researcher on the Health Research Council-funded project Wellbeing and the Precariat, examining how experiences of poverty affect working families’ wellbeing. He is an Associate Professor at Massey University, Aotearoa, New Zealand.

  Sarah Woodland  is a Senior Lecturer in theatre at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia, where she teaches undergraduate and postgraduate theatre. Her research focuses on applied theatre, socially engaged and participatory arts, with particular attention to intercultural praxis for justice and wellbeing. She has published extensively on these topics and is a co-editor of Australasian Drama Studies .