Our people
Find contact details and explore who does what in the School of Arts and Creative Technologies.
Chaimae Alouan
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 interests:
British and European art cinema, particularly the films of Terence Davies; intertextuality; literary adaptation; documentary filmmaking
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.
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.
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.
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Multi-camera techniques, documentary production, studio drama, TV as a cultural industry and screen storytelling.
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Film and television editing and post-production; storytelling in the edit - structure and emotional journey; shaping story using myth and legend; sound design.
Research interests:
Film and television production teaching and support for single camera location and multi-camera studio work. Offering advice on 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.
Member of the
Research interests:
Skills and Training in Creative Technologies, Inclusive Education, Virtual Acoustics, Music Performance Analysis, Interactive Sonification, Voice Analysis and Synthesis
Research interests:
Music and Mission; Post/De-Colonialism and Music; Musicology and Archives; British music history outside Britain
Research interests:
The music of Einojuhani Rautavaara; 20th/21st-century Nordic music; Tonality in the late-20th century; Music theory in education; Music and the natural environment
Research interests:
Music management theory and practice; audience studies and research; vocal music and other genres that combine music and text; sociology of music and music as a live experience
Research interests:
Modern British drama, political theatre, documentary and verbatim theatre, acting technique and training, voice and the actor, screen performance.
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).
Helen Claxton
Dr Jennifer Cohen
Research interests:
Music education, Baroque music, performance practice, timing in performance, embodied music cognition, musicology.
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Music Technology: music and artificial intelligence; web audio; user interfaces; pattern discovery; music perception.
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Composition, ancient music, medieval music.
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English drama 1580-1740; theatre, film and television comedy; post-1945 British theatre; analysis and history of acting and performance traditions; from script to performance.
Research interests:
Cultural-historical musicology; opera studies; British music, internationalism and empire; performance histories; music, gender and sexuality; archival research and digital musicologies
Research interests:
Music Education; Contemporary Urban Music: Hip hop; EDM; Grime; House; Music Technology
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.
Research interests:
Musicology, Composition: Jazz; improvisation; South African popular music.
Research interests:
Music Psychology, Music and Media.
Research interests:
Human-computer interaction and interaction design; educational technology and computer-supported collaborative learning; human-centred machine learning; design research.
Research interests:
Composition; New aesthetics and compositional strategies; Postmodern Culture; Immersive media: performance and creativity.
Research interests:
Commissioning practices in new writing for theatre; directive commissioning; playwriting processes; the craft of playwriting; community & applied theatre; play analysis.
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.
Louise Gibbs
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.
Research interests:
Material appearance; virtual reality; human perception of colour and material; modelling and rendering of facial appearance; appearance transfer methods.
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Music Education: teaching; learning; performance.
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.
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.
Sam Hazeldine
Research interests:
Non-profit fundraising and entrepreneurship in the creative industries; fundraising theory and practice; arts sponsorship activism and performance; 19 th century history of women’s philanthropy and poverty in the arts; the interwar art market; sociology of artworlds/critical social theory.
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.
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To conduct research on the Enhancing Audio Description II project.
Research interests:
Performance: Renaissance and Baroque music; vocal ensembles.
Research interests:
Human-computer interaction and interaction design, with a focus on the human-centred design of new interactive technologies for creative settings and practices; the design and development of new interaction techniques, including those for tabletop, multi-touch, tangible, tactile and reconfigurable user interfaces.
Member of the
Research interests:
Musicology, Performance: contemporary musical aesthetics and analysis; music and literature; piano accompaniment.
Christopher James
Research interests:
Digital media; action cinema; 3D; the representation of space and architecture on film; media archaeology.
Member of the
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 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
Research interests:
Interaction design for games and playful experiences; critical and speculative design; mobile and social play; animal-computer interaction.
Research interests:
Musicology, Performance: contemporary music and experimental music practices; music and embodiment/subjectivity/identity; music and language; Samuel Beckett.
Research interests:
Film and television directing; story-telling; the magic of film; showbiz; creating worlds in the viewer's mind.
Research interests:
Theatre and the posthuman; performing robots; twenty-first century drama; dramatic character; science-fiction theatre; technologies and film in theatre.
Research interests:
Sound Design for Theatre, Film and TV; Accessibility in audio-visual arts; Virtual Acoustics; York Mystery Plays; Digital Heritage.
Research interests:
Contemporary British theatre and performance; the relationship between text and performance; playwriting; adaptation for the stage; ecodramaturgy.
Research interests:
Contemporary British theatre and performance, devised and physical theatre, large-scale community productions, performance and social media.
Cathy Lowe
Research interests:
Sound recording, electronic dance music history, listening studies, music sociology.
Research interests:
Musicology: analysis of contemporary music; minimalism; specific non-western repertoire and traditions.
John Marley
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:
Interactive media; user experience; traditional storytelling; knowledge exchange; codesign; ethnography; design methods; community engagement.
MRC/004
Research interests:
Electronic Dance Music culture; visual and participatory arts; electroacoustic composition; DJ practice; creative practice in music education.
Research interests:
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.
Research interests:
Digital cinema; digital visual culture; interactive media; digital humanities; augmented realities; machinima; philosophy of film; cinephilia; East Asian cinema (Chinese, Singaporean); cross-culturality; comparative film studies.
Member of the
Research interests:
Music Education: teaching; learning; musicians' health and wellbeing; music psychology.
Research interests:
Music psychology; music and emotion; music science; empathy; quantitative research methods and analysis.
Matthew Paradis
Georgia Patchett
Research interests:
Music Education; Music-theatre; Opera; Composition
Federico Pendenza
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.
TFTV/215
Research interests:
British, Scottish and New Zealand Cinema History; Cinematography; Scottish Culture; Moving Image Policy and Institutions.
Research interests:
Contemporary playwriting; literary adaptation; the Victorians on stage and screen.