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Chaimae Alouan

Project Officer: Enhancing Audio Description II

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Lecturer in Digital Creativity

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Interactive media art, interaction design, theory and aesthetics of digital media; affordance, embodiment, memory; sound art, interactive sonification, sound design, listening practices, sonic memories; design of digital music instruments, live electronics and live coding, acousmatic composition, film music.

Research Associate

Associate Lecturer in Film & Television and Business of Creative Industries

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

British and European art cinema, particularly the films of Terence Davies; intertextuality; literary adaptation; documentary filmmaking 

Matt Barnard

Lecturer in Sound Recording and Music Production

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Composition and production with spatial audio, especially with ambisonic and binaural methods

The philosophy and aesthetics of spatial listening

Soundscape and electronic composition

Professor of Theatre

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Political theatre, particularly Bertolt Brecht, the Berliner Ensemble, Heiner Müller, dialectics on stage, and post-Brechtian performance; Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his work in the theatre; postdramatic theatre; modern German theatre; documentary theatre; theatre documentation.

Pablo Bellinghausen Riess

Technical Officer

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Lecturer in Theatre

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Feminism and dramaturgy; twenty-first century new playwriting; the contemporary history play; feminist performance analysis; centenary and anniversary commemoration and performance practices; British theatre institutions and their wider socio-cultural contexts. Theatre practitioner specialising in devising and new writing.

Professor in Interactive Media and Digital Creativity

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Enabling the general public to interact with real-world data through the use of novel interactive technology and visualization techniques. Utilizing interactive technology, data visualizations and games for scientific outreach, digital civics and citizen science.

Research Associate

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Communication design for equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI); Participatory and co-creative research methods; Design for sport and marginalised communities; Heritage, identity, and cultural storytelling; Visual methodologies and mapping in design

Subject Head of Creative Technologies

Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

The main driving force behind my research is the belief that technology, media and music all have an important role to play in society, particularly for improving health, wellbeing and access. I am also extremely fascinated by the power of music to affect how people feel.

Subject Head of Film & Television

Senior Lecturer in Film & Television Production (Cinematography)

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Film and television production teaching for single camera location and multi-camera studio work. Covering production methods, skills, techniques and technologies; specialising in cameras, lighting and grip equipment related to feature film, drama, documentary, music promos/commercials, multi-camera studio production and outside broadcast.

Lecturer in Editing for Film and TV

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Head of School

Professor in Theatre

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Modern British drama, political theatre, documentary and verbatim theatre, acting technique and training, voice and the actor, screen performance.

Senior Lecturer in Digital Culture

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Digital Art and Culture (historic and contemporary digital arts practices, sensing, environmental impacts, science and technology studies, media archaeology, gaming cultures); Digital Literature and Interactive Storytelling (digital writing and storytelling practices, virtual environments, gaming and simulation). Digital Creativity and Design (generative algorithms, creative coding, web design, speculative and imaginary media).

Dr James Cave

Research Fellow - Vocal Authenticity Project

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

English drama 1580-1737, theatre, film and television comedy, and the development of the theatre in the UK in the second half of the twentieth century until today.

Tania Dales

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Lecturer in Cinematography for Film & TV

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Professional digital cinematography technologies and industry standards of practice in Film and Television. Film and digital camera production and lighting design. Production workflows for the Cinematographer.

Lecturer in Interactive Media

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Human-computer interaction and interaction design; educational technology and computer-supported collaborative learning; human-centred machine learning; design research.

Senior Lecturer in Playwriting

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Commissioning practices in new writing for theatre; directive commissioning; playwriting processes; the craft of playwriting; community & applied theatre; play analysis.

Lecturer in Directing for Film and Television

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Film direction, observational documentary, slow cinema, film-diary; sound-image relationship, ‘cinematic silence’, aesthetics of film sound; Chantal Akerman, Michael Haneke, Andrei Tarkovsky, Michelangelo Antonioni, Agnès Varda and Sergei Parajanov; practice-based research, film authorship.

David Gochfeld

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Senior Lecturer in Theatre

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Scenography; lighting design, in particular the agency of light in performance; phenomenology; aesthetics; contemporary performance practices; dramaturgy; object oriented ontology and applications to performance; forms of storytelling across theatre and performance.

Catherine Graves

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Material appearance; virtual reality; human perception of colour and material; modelling and rendering of facial appearance; appearance transfer methods.

Lecturer in Management & the Creative Industries

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

The determining factors of cultural consumption, how consumers apprehend the cultural abundance, and the accessibility of cultural goods, with a focus on classical music concerts.

Robin Haigh

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Senior Lecturer in Film and TV Production

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Film and Television Production; producing, physical production and post-production. Screenwriting; story and script development. Film and Television distribution; international sales & acquisitions. Film and Television Finance. Art House cinema, French Cinema, and Studio Driven High Concept movies and Family Animation. Interdisciplinary fine art and media works that cross boundaries and create unique audience experiences.

Senior Lecturer in Film and TV

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Anglo-American television; representations of gender, race, and nation on TV and film; streaming cultures; Hungarian TV and film; transnational/transcultural media flows, particularly those between Eastern European and Anglo-American media cultures.

Mark Helsby

Associate Lecturer in Film & TV Production

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Subject Head of Creative Industries Management

Reader

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Nonprofit management and fundraising; interactive media and AI;  art market studies; history of fundraising in London's art market (mid 19th c. /early 20th c.)

Professor Emeritus

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

British cinema history, especially the silent period, and the 1990s/2000s; Film Europe in the 1920s; cinema and the past; national/transnational cinema; Anglia Television and the history of ITV.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

  • brain-computer music interfacing (BCMI
  • altered states of consciousness (ASC)
  • auditory entrainment to support meditation practices
  • sound design and music for film
  • animal rights

Professor in Interactive Media

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Human-computer interaction; human-centred design of new interactive technologies for creative settings and practices; application of responsive and immersive creative media to address societal challenges (e.g. environmental sustainability, mental & physical health, public engagement with data).

Andrew Hunter

Technical Officer

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Adepemi Ibiyemi

Project Manager

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Dr Bethan Jones

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Fan and audience studies, in particular anti-fandom, dislike and toxicity in online spaces; screen tourism; tattoos and tattoo culture; skills and training in the screen industries. 

Senior Lecturer in Film, TV and Digital Culture

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Digital media; action cinema; 3D; the representation of space and architecture on film; media archaeology.

Member of the Digital Cultures cluster.

Senior Lecturer in Theatre

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Medieval and early modern British drama, in particular the repertory of and performance by Elizabethan companies on tour; original practices and performance-as-research; the archaeology of medieval and post-medieval buildings; early theatre architectures.

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Expanded filmmaking, media arts, multi-sensory environments, psychology of embodied experience, transmedia

Lecturer in Sound Production

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Sound performance and sonic interactivity; sonic experience; phenomenology; sound design and storytelling; prototyping and remaking as design methods; history and philosophy of technology; noisemakers and sound effects

Richard Keogan

Associate Lecturer

Technical Officer

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Harriet King

Student Services Administrator (Postgraduate)

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media - Web Interaction

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Interaction design for games and playful experiences; critical and speculative design; mobile and social play; animal-computer interaction.

Ishita Krishna

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Senior Lecturer in Directing for Film and Television

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Film and television directing; story-telling; the magic of film; showbiz; creating worlds in the viewer's mind.

Senior Lecturer in Theatre

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Theatre and the posthuman; performing robots; twenty-first century drama; dramatic character; science-fiction theatre; technologies and film in theatre.

Daniel Lock

Associate Lecturer in Interactive Media

Senior Software Developer in Real-Time Graphics & AI

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Extended Reality, Immersive Technology, VR Theatre, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Human-Computer Interaction

Professor in Sound Production and Post-production

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Sound Design for Theatre, Film and TV; Accessibility in audio-visual arts; Virtual Acoustics; York Mystery Plays; Digital Heritage.

Lecturer in Theatre

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Contemporary British theatre and performance; the relationship between text and performance; playwriting; adaptation for the stage; ecodramaturgy.

Senior Lecturer in Theatre

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Contemporary British theatre and performance, devised and physical theatre, large-scale community productions, performance and social media.

Saad Maqbool

Associate Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Film and TV production and postproduction; business of film and television; story and script development; single camera directing; cinematic virtual reality; advanced production and post-production technologies.

Sophie Maw

Research Trainee in AI Vision

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media - UX Design

Chair of Partnerships & Engagement

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Interactive media; user experience; traditional storytelling; knowledge exchange; codesign; ethnography; design methods; community engagement.

Lecturer in the Business of the Creative and Cultural Industries

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Interdisciplinary cultural production; the relationship between art, film and place; design and media histories; film exhibition and audiences; cultural policy; festivals and biennials; creative practice research; intercultural relations; curating and programming

Ash Mitchell

Assistant Technician

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Nick Newman

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Kasia Nicklin

Lecturer in Multi-Camera Television Production

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Heather Niven

Lecturer in Management & the Creative Industries

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Thelma Osorio Euan

Research Assistant

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

The effect of AI in the Creative Industries, AI in Marketing and Storytelling applications, the role of Women in Film, and Diversity in Film Production. 

Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat

Postdoctoral Research Associate for CoSTAR LiveLAB

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Applied Machine Learning, Data-driven storytelling, AI in end-to-end solutions, UX, Esports, Data visualisation, AI in and for games, Games development

Professor in Theatre

Chair of Research & Practice

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Theatrical performance in the World War II Jewish ghetto at Terezín/Theresienstadt, modern Czech theatre, theories of affect, identity and subjectivity, playwriting, translation and adaptation for the stage.

Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Professor in Film

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

British, Scottish and New Zealand cinema and culture, with specific interests in the film-making process, the industrial structures and functioning of national cinemas, the art and craft of cinematography and the relationship between cultural expression and the question of the national.

Professor

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Subject Head of Theatre

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Critical approaches to staging and unstageability; contemporary performance practice in the UK and Ireland; voice and music in contemporary theatre; autoethnographic approaches to writing about performance; pedagogies of theatre and performance in higher education.

James Redelinghuys

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Jimmy Richards

Lecturer in Film and Television

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Will Rowan

Research Fellow in Computer Vision and Machine Learning

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Computer vision and machine learning applied to virtual production; 3D representations of the human face and body; multi-modal analysis and generation of real and virtual worlds. My work aims to enhance creative expression and innovation in film and television, enabling new possibilities in storytelling, special effects, and immersive experiences.

Johannes Ruckstuhl

Assistant Technician

Associate Lecturer in Sound for Film & TV

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Senior Lecturer in Screen Production and Postproduction

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Workflows and techniques for production and post production. Multi-camera studio techniques and processes. Editing and post production finishing in the storytelling process. Visual effects in theatre and interactive media.

Lecturer in Interactive Media

Chair of Board of Studies

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Human-robot interaction, human-computer interaction, interaction design, user-centred design and evaluation methods. Quantitative and qualitative research methods. Acceptance and use of technology by older people. Accessibility, including AI and robotics to help age at home. Universal Design for (e)learning.

Daniel Slawson

Research Software Engineer in Creative Technologies

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Tom Straszewski

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Lecturer in the Business of Creative and Cultural Industries

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Digital Disruption; Popular Music; Music Streaming; Valuation Studies; Copyright

Reader in Creative Industries Research

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Economic geography, specifically geographies of the creative industries; immersive technology and media; critical heritage studies; visual methodologies; post-representational cartography.

Ben Thomas

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Nicola Thomis

Project and Communications Manager - AI-Powered Lighting In Live Virtual Production

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Lecturer in Creative Industries

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Film industry scholarship, particularly the relationship between the film industries and cultures of Britain and Hollywood, national and transnational cinemas and the political economy of film and television institutions.

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Sociology of film; cinema history; popular film genres (especially the horror movie); football on television; cultural studies.

Professor of Digital Creativity

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Dr Cobi van Tonder

Research Affiliate

Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Working on project 'Acoustic Atlas: Cultivating the Capacity to Listen' with Dr Mariana Lopez. Funded by the European Commission.

Heritage Acoustics, Immersive Audio, 3D audio, Composition, Sound art and Sound Design.

Lecturer in Writing for Stage and Screen

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Screenwriting; story and script development.

Lecturer in Studio Television Production

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Single and multi-camera production techniques; writing for film and television; content creation; children's media production, regulation and financing.

Dr Nina Willment

Research Associate - Co-Producing EDI Interventions for Virtual Production

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Mrs Charlotte Wilson

Research Administrator - Co-Producing EDI Interventions for Virtual Production

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Lecturer in Digital Design

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Responsible design;
Designing for inclusion, sustainability and wellbeing;
Design for behaviour change;
Participatory design;
Gender-sensitive design in human computer interaction.

Dr Monika Zabrocka

Research Affiliate

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Audiovisual translation and visual arts accessibility; Literary and poetic translation; Untranslatability and transcreation in translation; Compensational education and speech therapy.