Postgraduate researchers
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Composition, cross-culturalism, musical experience, Javanese gamelan, cultural appropriation,
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- Accessibility; Disability; Inclusivity; Neurodiversity; ADHD; Autism; Engagement with stories; Storytelling; Fairy tales; Narrative structure
Thomas Battey
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Thesis title in development
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Cartographic narratives, communication strategies, storytelling for change, Interactive media, environment, connectedness, data visualisation, design, semiotics.
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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.
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Jazz pedagogy, jazz improvisation, music education, teaching approaches, teaching strategies.
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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.
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Gamelan, community music, ethnomusicology, cultural intersections, person-centred practice, collaborative composition
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Music aesthetics, contemporary music, choreomusical relationship, queer theory, embodiment, theatre and performance studies
I am interested in the area above and open to collaboration.
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Music education, instrumental music, instrumental music education, music theory pedagogy
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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.
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- Machine learning applied to music, including but not limited to human-centered music generation.
- Discovery of repetitive patterns in music.
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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
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Research related to: the relationship between filmmakers and their technology, the development of filmmaking education, and capturing experimental visual aesthetic.
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Music education; cultural policy; music & adolescents; music & wellbeing; music sociology; music psychology; cultural geography; popular music studies; ethnomusicology
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Media and Entertainment Industry, Creative Project Management, Intellectual Property Rights, Project and Contractual Working, Business Management, Management Process Frameworks.
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Magic Circles: Generating collaborative queer utopias via tabletop roleplaying games and the “Fantastic Genres”
Alex Kiddier
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Human computer interaction, Inclusive design, Co-design methods, Older Adults, Accessibility, Game Design.
Daniel Lock
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Oboe, period instruments, oboe pedagogy, musicology, historical performance practice, music psychology, sociology, music education, EDI, Musicians Health and Wellbeing, thematic analysis
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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.
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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
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Story Seeds - Growing Storied Experiences from Outdoor Cultural Heritage Sites through Tangible Interactive Artefacts
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Mental Illness and Dramatising Symptoms: A Playwright's Perspective
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Experimentation of a new grammar for telling narratives in Cinematic Virtual Reality
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Directing, Alzheimer's disease, workshop theory and practice, biomedical research in the rehearsal room
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From the Underdog to Top Dog – Gender representation and unconscious bias in sports films from the late 1970s to 2020.
Richard Oakes
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Investigating Emotional Audience Responses to Theatre and Music
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Subjective responses to music, music education, music performance, evolution of music and musicality
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Music education, instrumental and vocal teaching, dialogic teaching, dialogue
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Music education;
Music teacher education;
PGCE courses;
and other music degree courses .
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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
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Composition; Algorithmic Composition; Cognitive Science; Analogy; Music & Meaning
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Playwrighting; queer theatre; feminist theatre; science fiction theatre; queer theory; queer history
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Ethnographic documentary; Chinese independent documentary; Socialist realistic documentary
Mary Stewart-David
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Writing the Immersive Musical
May Sumbwanyambe
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Thesis title in development
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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.
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Reflections of Sherlock Holmes: A Study of the Relationship between Sherlock Holmes Adaptations, Appropriations and Modern Media Protagonists.
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Western opera performance, Reception, empirical research, audience perspectives
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Transmedia, storytelling, mythology, superheroes, film, television, literature.
Aysha Alfalasi
Katie Ambrose
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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
Marie Bashiru
Charlotte Baskerville
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- Composition
- Choral music
- Creative placemaking
Stephen Bilton
Philip Boardman
Alex Boba
Atticus Campana
Jane Chan
Shiran Chen
Sophie Coyne
Yucheng Deng
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Sound landscape, localization of game sound, sound design, game culture
Jared Destro
Arthur Dickinson
Emilee Dixon
Christopher Granier-Deferre
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Cinema, British Film and Television, Post-colonialism, Media Industry, Propaganda, British Empire, Colonialism.
Matthew Hall
Pat Higgins
Tabby Holland
Janey Howarth
Alfred Howle
Eden Hutton
Austin Jones
William Jones
Vivien Keiles
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Community music; arts and health research; broadside ballads; medieval music; collaborative songwriting; embodied practice; ballad walks
Tamar Knott
Wenjun Li
Chian Lim
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Musicians' Heath and Wellbeing, Focal Dystonia, Salutogenesis, Instrumental and Vocal Pedagogy, Work Environment
Johan Lofving
John Marley
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Performance practice, jazz, bass guitar.
Ruth Mazur
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Music Education, Music Psychology, Contemporary Rap Music, Music and Wellbeing, Musical Improvisation in education, Music therapy, Music education and museums.
Gala Moore
Lee Mosley
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Screenwriting, film, TV, narrative, story, script, character, series, plot, structure, act, dénoûment
Butshilo Nleya
Fintan O'Hare
Serena Paese
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Music psychology, music performance, musicians' health and wellbeing, music and emotions, music education
Christi Park
Jack Pepion
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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
Matthew Redman
Liesa Refflinghaus
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Experimental Playwriting; Contemporary British Theatre & Performance; Dramaturgy; Feminisms & Feminist Critical Theory; Patriarchy & Capitalism; Power & Ideology
John Rousseau
Monica Ryan
Jess Schofield
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Spatial Audio, Augmented Reality, Accessibility, Heritage, Immersive Storytelling
Matt Shurtleworth
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Music production and disability studies.
Tom Sissons
Mark Skinner
Jasmine Smale
Roy Watkins
Ruike Xu
Tiannan Ye
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Embodied cognition; String quartet; Violin performance; Schumann
Gude Yue
Chaoyu Zhang
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Generative AI, Community Empowerment, Interactive Storytelling, Design-led Innovation