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About Us
Diverse City was established in 2005
by Claire Hodgson and Nick Merwitzer

Claire Hodgson		Nick Merwitzer
A trained actor, dancer and director Claire has worked in higher education for the last 12 years as a senior lecturer in performing arts. As a university subject leader for the last six years, Claire has designed, developed and managed performing arts courses at degree and access level and has extensive experience coordinating both the admission and assessment processes. Claire has always strived to enable under represented groups to access higher education, particularly in performing arts training, and she is a specialist in the field of disability and performance. Claire initiated, with Graeae Theatre Company, The Missing Piece: a unique training course for adults with physical and sensory impairments based at London Metropolitan University . Claire has published work on disability and performance and the contemporary British identity in theatre, and in the last year she has been invited to speak about her work in Poland, Washington DC and throughout the UK.		A professional musician and composer for the last fifteen years, Nick has recorded for major record labels and composed music for BBC and Channel 4 network television programmes, as well as for leading British and international theatre and dance companies. Nick has also written music for a number of independently produced short films and worked as a university lecturer in music technology. For the last five years Nick has worked in higher education as a designer and manager of widening participation projects. Nick has developed and managed various schemes designed to promote higher education to young people from ethnic and socio-economic groups under represented in post - 18 education. During this time Nick has also worked on a number of arts projects developed for various groups including, refugees; young offenders; people who are HIV positive; the elderly and the terminally ill.