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Eltje Bos Editor

Eltje Bos (PhD) is a Professor Emerita of Cultural and Social Dynamics ‎at the University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam. Also trained as a drama teacher, she focused and focuses in her work on the use of arts and creativity in social work as well as on strategies of collaboration to increase personal empowerment and ‎the livability in the city.

Ephrat Huss (PhD) is Professor of Social Work and Art Therapy at Ben-Gurion ‎University of the Negev. She heads an innovative MA social work specialization ‎that integrates arts in social practice. and has 40 students doing social arts ‎projects per year. She has a background in fine arts. Her areas of research ‎are the interface between arts and social practice and arts-based research: using arts ‎as a way for accessing the voices of marginalized populations. ‎