People
These are the people connected to the Praxis of Social Imaginaries project.
Laura Hellsten, Doctor in Systematic Theology
Biography
Hellsten is a Doctor in Systematic Theology from Åbo Akademi University. Her first Master was in Education, from Oulu University and her second one was in Theology from Åbo Akademi. She has lived and studied in Portugal, Sweden and the US. Currently, she is placed in the archipelago of the Åland Islands where she lives with her cat Moses on Kökar.
She published her dissertation Through the Bone and Marrow: Re-examining Theological Encounters with Dance in Medieval Europe with Brepols in 2021.
After finishing her doctoral work on Dance and Theology, Laura Hellsten had a post-doctoral position within the Stiftelsen Åbo Akademi-funded Centre of Excellence BACE. BACE is a collaboration centered on developing a platform for bioelectronic activation that enables the control of cell signals and, thereby, the stimulation of cell functions. Hellsten did ethnographic fieldwork with the research group investigating questions of Ethics and Science Communication. To study science communication, Hellsten developed and led the research project Avtryck i det okända – Forcing the Impossible, which created collaborations between artists and researchers in the broader context of Åbo Akademi.
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