MICRO-BIO

• Argyris Karapitsanis is a Teaching Fellow For Museums, Heritage, and Archeaology at University College London, Qatar. He teaches in the MA in Museum and Gallery Practice, plans and delivers lectures for UCL Qatar's Continuing Professional Developmen...More

  Argyris Karapitsanis is a Teaching Fellow For Museums, Heritage, and Archeaology at University College London, Qatar. He teaches in the MA in Museum and Gallery Practice, plans and delivers lectures for UCL Qatar's Continuing Professional Development courses for museum professionals, and cooredinates the work placement of master's students. His own main research interests are in the theory and implementation of museum learning practices, museum marketing and cultural communication, and cultural tourism. Argyris is a PhD candidate in Museum Education at the University of Edinburgh, where his research focuses on the utilisation of drama in education so as to enhance learning in museums and galleries. Argyris holds a BSc in Tourism Management from the TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece, an MFA in Drama from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, an MSc in Planning, Management, and Policy Tourism from the University of the Aegean, and an MSc in Cultural Organisations Management from the Hellenic Open University. For more than nine years, he hsa worked as an educator teaching drama in education, museum education practises and tourism disciplines in schools, museums, cultural associations and colleges in Greece, as well as working as a cultural consultant conducting audience development rearch in Greek cultural associations. Before joining UCL Qatar, he was Head of the Educational Programmes Department at the Teloglion Foundation of Arts - Museum of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. 

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EXPERIENCE

• University College London

  • Teaching Fellow in Museums, Heritage and Archaeology
  • August 2013 to Present

EDUCATION

• University of Edinburgh

  • PhD
  • January 2018 to Present

  Research on the utilisation of drama in education as a tool to enhance learning in museums and galleries

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