Postgraduate researchers

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Composition, cross-culturalism, musical experience, Javanese gamelan, cultural appropriation,

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

- Accessibility; Disability; Inclusivity; Neurodiversity; ADHD; Autism; Engagement with stories; Storytelling; Fairy tales; Narrative structure

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Thomas Battey

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

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Thesis title in development

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Cartographic narratives, communication strategies, storytelling for change, Interactive media, environment, connectedness, data visualisation, design, semiotics.

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

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How to give students a professional experience during productions while still teaching technique to actors in training? An investigation into discovering strategies that can be used when directing students.

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Jazz pedagogy, jazz improvisation, music education, teaching approaches, teaching strategies.

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

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Mediating between game and interactive storytelling experiences, Cristobal is interested in shaping appealing game design properties into purposeful games, leveraging positive psychological digital interventions with accessible play practices to benefit large numbers of people. Cristobal's research focuses on inclusive interactive experiences, aimed at strengthening the links between commercial games and the wellbeing sector.

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Video games, gaming, theatre, performance, acting, autoethnography

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Gamelan, community music, ethnomusicology, cultural intersections, person-centred practice, collaborative composition

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Music aesthetics, contemporary music, choreomusical relationship, queer theory, embodiment, theatre and performance studies
I am interested in the area above and open to collaboration.

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Museum accessibility, queer history, digital heritage

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Music education, instrumental music, instrumental music education, music theory pedagogy

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Augmented reality / primary education / sciences / XR technologies

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

English Church Music

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Popular Music; AI in Music Education; Decolonising Music Pedagogy; African Popular Music; Music Technology in the Classrooms, Yorùbá cultural Studies; Sonic identity in African Music; Music Information Retrieval; Ethnomusicology; Yorùbá Talking Drum.

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

- Machine learning applied to music, including but not limited to human-centered music generation.
- Discovery of repetitive patterns in music.

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Documentary filmmaking, interactive documentary (i-doc), non-linear storytelling, migrant women's experiences, integration, human rights, research by creative practice, visual ethnography, inter-disciplinary research

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

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Research related to: the relationship between filmmakers and their technology, the development of filmmaking education, and capturing experimental visual aesthetic.

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Richard Wagner; Western operas in China; Theory

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Music education; cultural policy; music & adolescents; music & wellbeing; music sociology; music psychology; cultural geography; popular music studies; ethnomusicology

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Media and Entertainment Industry, Creative Project Management, Intellectual Property Rights, Project and Contractual Working, Business Management, Management Process Frameworks.

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Magic Circles: Generating collaborative queer utopias via tabletop roleplaying games and the “Fantastic Genres”

Alex Kiddier

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Human computer interaction, Inclusive design, Co-design methods, Older Adults, Accessibility, Game Design.

Daniel Lock

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Oboe, period instruments, oboe pedagogy, musicology, historical performance practice, music psychology, sociology, music education, EDI, Musicians Health and Wellbeing, thematic analysis

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

The music of ('old') England and New England during the 16th and 17th centuries, musical performance practices during the early modern period, historical linguistics - particularly philology, phonology, and phonetics - and Early Modern English language and literature.

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Musical empathy, musical cohesion in video games, equality diversity & inclusion, ludology and narratology, ethics, music storytelling in interactive media, death studies (thanatology), queer methodology, authentic representations of cultural music in media, audio-visual pairings and musical incongruency, embodied affective response to music, music cognition, music psychology, Latin American ethnomusicology (particularly Peruvian music studies), video game immersion

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Story Seeds - Growing Storied Experiences from Outdoor Cultural Heritage Sites through Tangible Interactive Artefacts

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Mental Illness and Dramatising Symptoms: A Playwright's Perspective

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

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Experimentation of a new grammar for telling narratives in Cinematic Virtual Reality

Discipline: Music

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Directing, Alzheimer's disease, workshop theory and practice, biomedical research in the rehearsal room

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

From the Underdog to Top Dog – Gender representation and unconscious bias in sports films from the late 1970s to 2020.

Richard Oakes

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Investigating Emotional Audience Responses to Theatre and Music

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Subjective responses to music, music education, music performance, evolution of music and musicality

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Javanese Gamelan, Siter, Celempung, Indonesia, ethnomusicology.

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Music education, instrumental and vocal teaching, dialogic teaching, dialogue

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Music education;
Music teacher education;
PGCE courses;
and other music degree courses .

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

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Towards a feminist mythography: a practice based enquiry exploring female archetypes in native folklore and how these might play as source material in contemporary film narratives

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Composition; Algorithmic Composition; Cognitive Science; Analogy; Music & Meaning

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Playwrighting; queer theatre; feminist theatre; science fiction theatre; queer theory; queer history

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Ethnographic documentary; Chinese independent documentary; Socialist realistic documentary

Mary Stewart-David

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Writing the Immersive Musical

May Sumbwanyambe

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Thesis title in development

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

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Richard’s research is at the intersection of media, culture and technology, exploring how artificial intelligence and machine learning can be deployed in the creation of computer-mediated artefacts, examining post-human to non-human modes of production.

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Reflections of Sherlock Holmes: A Study of the Relationship between Sherlock Holmes Adaptations, Appropriations and Modern Media Protagonists.

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Western opera performance, Reception, empirical research, audience perspectives

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Interactive Fiction, Game Books, Video Games, Comics, Film

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Piano performance and education; Instrumental teaching approaches.

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Transmedia, storytelling, mythology, superheroes, film, television, literature.

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Musicians' Health and Well-being, Music Education, Music Psychology

Aysha Alfalasi

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Katie Ambrose

Discipline: Music

Research interests:


The interplay of gender, technology, and choral music, focusing on Anglican environments. How historically male-dominated production norms shape musical narratives and affect the experiences of female-identifying musicians. Utilizing frameworks like Female Ear praxis and microaggression theory, her work aims to deconstruct these biases and advocate for more inclusive and equitable practices within choral music production.

Rachel Astall

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Marie Bashiru

Discipline: Music

Charlotte Baskerville

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

- Composition
- Choral music
- Creative placemaking

Stephen Bilton

Discipline: Music

Philip Boardman

Discipline: Music

Alex Boba

Discipline: Music

Atticus Campana

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Jane Chan

Discipline: Music

Shiran Chen

Discipline: Music

Sophie Coyne

Discipline: Music

Yucheng Deng

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Sound landscape, localization of game sound, sound design, game culture

Jared Destro

Discipline: Music

Arthur Dickinson

Discipline: Music

Emilee Dixon

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Christopher Granier-Deferre

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Cinema, British Film and Television, Post-colonialism, Media Industry, Propaganda, British Empire, Colonialism.

Matthew Hall

Discipline: Music

Pat Higgins

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Tabby Holland

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Janey Howarth

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Alfred Howle

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Eden Hutton

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Austin Jones

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

William Jones

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Vivien Keiles

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Community music; arts and health research; broadside ballads; medieval music; collaborative songwriting; embodied practice; ballad walks

Tamar Knott

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Wenjun Li

Discipline: Music

Chian Lim

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Musicians' Heath and Wellbeing, Focal Dystonia, Salutogenesis, Instrumental and Vocal Pedagogy, Work Environment

Johan Lofving

Discipline: Music

John Marley

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Performance practice, jazz, bass guitar.

Ruth Mazur

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Music Education, Music Psychology, Contemporary Rap Music, Music and Wellbeing, Musical Improvisation in education, Music therapy, Music education and museums.

Gala Moore

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Lee Mosley

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Screenwriting, film, TV, narrative, story, script, character, series, plot, structure, act, dénoûment

Butshilo Nleya

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Fintan O'Hare

Discipline: Music

Serena Paese

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Music psychology, music performance, musicians' health and wellbeing, music and emotions, music education

Christi Park

Discipline: Music

Jack Pepion

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

My research interests incorporate the history of western classical music from the late renaissance to the classical era, opera history, contemporary composition, and jazz music from the 20th-century.

Naomi Perera

Discipline: Music

Matthew Redman

Discipline: Music

Liesa Refflinghaus

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Experimental Playwriting; Contemporary British Theatre & Performance; Dramaturgy; Feminisms & Feminist Critical Theory; Patriarchy & Capitalism; Power & Ideology

John Rousseau

Discipline: Music

Monica Ryan

Discipline: Music

Jess Schofield

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Spatial Audio, Augmented Reality, Accessibility, Heritage, Immersive Storytelling

Matt Shurtleworth

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Music production and disability studies.

Tom Sissons

Discipline: Music

Mark Skinner

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Jasmine Smale

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Roy Watkins

Discipline: Music

Ruike Xu

Discipline: Music

Tiannan Ye

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Embodied cognition; String quartet; Violin performance; Schumann

Gude Yue

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Chaoyu Zhang

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Generative AI, Community Empowerment, Interactive Storytelling, Design-led Innovation

Chen Zhu

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media