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
Andrea Linfoot-Potts
Head of Faculty Operations
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.
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.
Research interests:
Musicology, Music Education: teaching; learning; analysis; music and temporality.
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
- n.jones@york.ac.uk
- +44 (0)1904 325289
- TFTV/122
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
- samuel.haddad-bacry@york.ac.uk
- RCH/222
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.