Despo Pasia

Art Manager and Board Director

Despo Pasia is a museologist and museum educator. She has studied Education, Anthropology, Psychology and Museum Studies in Cyprus, the USA and the UK. She designs and implements educational programs for historic, archaeological and art museums and has taken part as research and education associate in Council of Europe and Marie-Curie funded research projects on History, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage. She is education officer at the State Gallery of Contemporary Cypriot Art and teaches Art in public primary schools. She co-creates exhibitions and museum interventions and is currently PhD candidate at UCL- Institute of Education, University of London. Her doctoral research focuses on the experience of young people’s encounters with museum photographic archives. Her research interests include hybrid exhibitions, photography, photographic archives and museum education.