dr. janet gibson
is an independent theatre and performance studies scholar whose research focuses on socially engaged performance with older people and those living with dementia.
Her recent publications include the co-authored (with Dr Kate Maguire-Rosier) ‘Who Cares? Exposing the Critical Paradox of Care in Performances of Disability and Disease through the Lens of Disclosure’ in Performance Research (Volume 27, Issue 6-7, 2023) and Dementia, Narrative and Performance: Staging Reality, Reimagining Identities (Palgrave, 2020). Janet is currently collaborating with Dr Meg Mumford on the application of a care aesthetics lens to a TimeSlips program in a Sydney residential aged care home.
She also works as an artist/creative care educator in the dementia unit of the care home.