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Leadership team in the School of Arts and Creative Technologies

Lead

Professor Tom Cantrell

Head of School

Professor in Theatre

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Modern British drama, political theatre, documentary and verbatim theatre, acting technique and training, voice and the actor, screen performance.

Members

Dr Debbie Maxwell

Deputy Head for Research and Practice

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 Martin Suckling

Deputy Head for Teaching and Learning

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

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

Dr Anna Bramwell-Dicks

Subject Head of Creative Technologies

Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

The main driving force behind my research is the belief that technology, media and music all have an important role to play in society, particularly for improving health, wellbeing and access. I am also extremely fascinated by the power of music to affect how people feel.

Matt Brannan

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.

Dr Marta Herrero

Subject Head of Creative Industries Management

Reader

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.)

Dr Katherine Graham

Interim Subject Head of Theatre

Senior Lecturer in Theatre

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

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.

Dr Richard Powell

Subject Head of Music

Lecturer

Discipline: Music

Research interests:

Musicology, Music Education: teaching; learning; analysis; music and temporality.

Erik Olafsen

Technical Facilities Manager

Mr Sanjit Samaddar

Lecturer in Interactive Media

Chair of Board of Studies

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Human-robot interaction, human-computer interaction, interaction design, user-centred design and evaluation methods. Quantitative and qualitative research methods. Acceptance and use of technology by older people. Accessibility, including AI and robotics to help age at home. Universal Design for (e)learning.

Dr Nick Jones

Senior Lecturer in Film, TV and Digital Culture

Co-Chair of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

Digital media; action cinema; 3D; the representation of space and architecture on film; media archaeology.

Member of the Digital Cultures cluster.

Dr Julia Havas

Senior Lecturer in Film and TV

Co-Chair of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

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.

Dr Samuel Haddad-Bacry

Lecturer in Management & the Creative Industries

Chair of Marketing and Events

Discipline: Theatre, film, television and interactive media

Research interests:

The determining factors of cultural consumption, how consumers apprehend the cultural abundance, and the accessibility of cultural goods, with a focus on classical music concerts.