Leadership team in the School of Arts and Creative Technologies

Lead

Head of School and Reader

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Musicology: contemporary and 20th-century opera production; Wagner; critical musicology.

Members

Associate Dean for Partnerships, Engagement and International

Deputy Head of School

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.

Deputy Head of School

Professor

Subject Head of Music

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Composition, Performance: spectral and microtonal music; live electronics; orchestration.

Erik Olafsen

Technical Facilities Manager

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.

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.

Subject Head of Creative Technologies

Professor of Digital Media and Culture

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Digital media; digital culture; digital imaging (including VR/AR/XR/virtual re-creations); immersive media; creative technologies; philosophy of technology; AI and algorithmic culture; the posthuman; machinima; interactive storytelling; interactive media. 

Reader

Subject Head of Creative Industries Management

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 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.

Senior Lecturer in TV Production

Chair of Learning & Teaching

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Multi-camera techniques, documentary production, studio drama, TV as a cultural industry and screen storytelling.

Chair of Partnerships & Engagement & Impact Lead

Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media - UX Design

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

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

Professor

Chair of Postgraduate Research (Semester 1)

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Musicology, Performance: contemporary music and experimental music practices; music and embodiment/subjectivity/identity; music and language; Samuel Beckett.

Reader

Chair of EDI & Staff Development

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Music Education: teaching; learning; performance.

Professor

Chair of Board of Studies

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Musicology: 16th- and 17th-century Italian and English music; performance practice; editing.

Mr Simon van der Borgh

Senior Lecturer in Screenwriting

Chair of Postgraduate Research (Semester 2)

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

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.