Helene Grøn

Postdoc

ORCID: 0000-0003-1988-4865

Education:

2017-2021: PhD, University of Glasgow, Department of Culture and Creative arts and Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNet). Award: AHRC-fellowship. Thesis: 'How much home does a person need?' Asylum and Belonging through Collective Playwriting
2013-2014: Masters of Letters (MLitt) in Theatre and Performance Practices, University of Glasgow. Funding: The Scottish Council (Scottish Fee Waiver-award). Thesis: 'In you that journey is': Home and Homelessness in the World and On Stage
2012-2013: Masters of Science (MsC) in Playwriting, University of Edinburgh. Funding: Augustinus Fonden, Knud Højgaards Fond. Thesis: Three Lives (full-length play)
2009-2012: Bachelor (BA) of Arts in English, University of Copenhagen. Thesis: One the Verge of Becoming a Story: Comparing Anton Chekhov and Edward Hopper
2011-2012: Erasmus Exchange, University of Edinburgh

Employment History:

University of Copenhagen:

2022-currently: Postdoc on the Where Love Happens Velux-funded project at the Institute for English, German and Romance Languages (Engerom)
2021-2022: Research Assistant at Engerom
2020-2021: Part-time lecturer at Engerom

University of Glasgow:

2019-2020: General Teaching Assistant
2017-2018: Postgraduate co-convenor for Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNet). Organising events, presentations, social gatherings and workshops for researchers, students and Glasgow’s refugee community.
2017-2018: Conference administrator and organiser of the symposium for Theatre, Film and TV at the University of Glasgow

I am also a writer, librettist and facilitator of socially engaged projects. Recent credits include:

2023:

2022:

Part of an the artistic team for the Trampoline House contribution to the Documenta15 Festival in Kassel
Editor and helper on visAvis – Voices on Asylum and Migration, No. 14, Printed by the lumbung Press, Kassel.
Gunna. Short story in Dark Mountain Issue 21: Confluence

2021:

These days or everyone is a child of the inbetween or everyone is a child of the inbetween these days. Libretto for Composer Matthew Whiteside. Sundays at Noon: Within Without, Concert in the Courtyard, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

2019:

These days… Libretto for Composer Matthew Whiteside. The Space, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburgh
Amazing Amelia written with and performed with the Women’s Group at the YCSA, UNESCO Spring School, Glasgow
Workshop lead on a day-long course about the mechanisms of playwriting and the role of the playwright and the ethics of making theatre. University of Edinburgh

2018:

This is Us, play written with and performed by a group living in Deportation Centre Sjælsmark, Trampoline House, Copenhagen
These days… Libretto for Composer Matthew Whiteside. The Night With… The Hug & Pint, Glasgow
Little Black Lies. Libretto for composer Matthew Whiteside performed and produced by Scottish Opera. Scottish Opera, Connect Company, Glasgow.
Twice Removed. Libretto for composer Angela Slater. Cheltenham Composers Academy, Cheltenham Festivals

NGO, internships and volunteering include:

2017-currently: Trampoline House, Copenhagen (women’s class/women’s club, democracy class, child care, Danish and English teacher)
2018: Trampoline House (intern in Folkebevægelsen for Asylbørns Fremtid and Women's Club)
2018-2020: Youth Community Support Agency (youth worker developing and assisting on creative projects for young people from marginalised backgrounds)
2016: Scottish Refugee Council (facilitator for the Scottish Refugee Festival)
2014: Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland (intern)

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