Leadership team in the School of Arts and Creative Technologies
Lead
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Research interests:
Musicology: contemporary and 20th-century opera production; Wagner; critical musicology.
Members
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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.
Research interests:
Composition, Performance: spectral and microtonal music; live electronics; orchestration.
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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.
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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.
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Research interests:
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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.)
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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.
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Research interests:
Multi-camera techniques, documentary production, studio drama, TV as a cultural industry and screen storytelling.
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Research interests:
Interactive media; user experience; traditional storytelling; knowledge exchange; codesign; ethnography; design methods; community engagement.
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Research interests:
Musicology, Performance: contemporary music and experimental music practices; music and embodiment/subjectivity/identity; music and language; Samuel Beckett.
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Research interests:
Music Education: teaching; learning; performance.
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Research interests:
Musicology: 16th- and 17th-century Italian and English music; performance practice; editing.
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Mr Simon van der Borgh
Research interests:
Short films and how emergent film-makers can best use them to make the successful leap into features; film and TV characters and their core function in the creation of compelling screen stories and effective story structures; and scene-writing, about which I am currently researching a book in response to regular requests from students.