Free De Backer

Free De Backer is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Her research focuses on arts and cultural education, encompassing research projects that explore art-care intersections, disability aesthetics, and arts participation and mediation in various learning environments at different ages.

Research expertise: arts mediation, cultural participation, social change, participatory arts 

Research methodology: participatory research, qualitative research