Loukia Chaidemenaki is a researcher psychologist, cultural manager and art therapist (PhDc University of Music & Performing Arts Vienna, MSc Psychology , MA Arts & Cultural Management, Member of the Association of Greek Psychologists, the British Psychological Society, the British Association of Art Therapists and the European Federation of Art Therapists).
She works for the National Arts on Prescription Program at the Music Concert Hall of Athens. She is the Project Manager (AMAKA NGO) for European Funded Projects and implements advocacy programs for the promotion of human rights of people at risk of exclusion through arts and cultural accessibility (Museums) projects for vulnerable groups projects for vulnerable groups (i.e. PwDs, people with visual impairments).
She has been scientific associate of the Museum of Cycladic Art for the promotion of accessibility and equal participation of PLDs in the Arts & Culture (2021-2022) and has curated exhibitions for artists with disabilities. In 2022 she designed and implemented an ethnographic research art-based program at Ecuador where she worked with indigenous communities, a project that has been published by the Canadian Journal of Art Therapy.
As a research psychologist, she teaches Research Methodology in Social Sciences in the Private University Education and her research work has been published in international scientific journals. Loukia also works for social inclusion and supported Living for Adults with Disabilities and has worked in the field of psychosocial inclusion of children and youth with disabilities in Germany and with people with lived psychiatric experience in Greece.
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