Dr. Marline Lisette Wilders

University of Groningen

Marline Lisette Wilders is assistant professor Arts in Society at the University of Groningen. She specialises in audience and reception research with a focus on the structure of aesthetic experiences in relation to the experience of space and place in both urban and rural settings. She received a Rubicon grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research for her postdoctoral project “From Working Space to Theatre Space: The User Perspective”, investigating the conversion of abandoned industrial sites into permanent theatre spaces, re‐signifying the various values and meanings connected to these sites, employing both quantitative and qualitative audience research methods. She carried out audience and reception research at festival sites as a post‐doctoral researcher in the international consortium Cultural Heritage and Improvised Music in European Festivals (CHIME), funded under the JPI Heritage Plus programme, that explored how music, festivals and heritage sites renegotiate established understandings and uses of heritage.