Postgraduate researchers

Research interests:

Prompt engineering in generative AI filmmaking; semiotics and the language of cinema; visual sense-making in AI-generated outputs; authorship, authenticity, and originality in AI filmmaking; audience engagement with AI-generated films.

Research interests:

Lighting design for performance, dramaturgy, theatre, scenography.

Research interests:

- Composition
- Choral music
- Creative placemaking

Research interests:

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

Research interests:

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

Research interests:

Screenwriting; Creative writing; Sociolinguistics; Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA); Multilingualism; Postcolonial studies; Decolonisation; Migration and diaspora; Minoritised identities; Intersectionality; Language and power; Pedagogic language; Cultural narratives; Streaming media and international content

Research interests:

Modern and Contemporary Indian Theatre, Postdramatic Theatre, Scenography

Research interests:

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

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.

Research interests:

Museum accessibility, queer history, digital heritage

Research interests:

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

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

Research interests:

Live, co-present modes of interaction, immersion, and participation. Roleplay. Games and play. Directing as research. Dramaturgy. Relational theatre. Analytical and practical frameworks for performance. Adaptation. Poetry in theatre. Live art. Installation.

Research interests:

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

Research interests:

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

Research interests:

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

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

Research interests:

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

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

Research interests:

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

Research interests:

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

Research interests:

Javanese Gamelan, Siter, Celempung, Indonesia, ethnomusicology.

Research interests:

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

Research interests:

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

Research interests:

Analysis, Performance practice, Indeterminacy, Experimentalism, Percussion repertoire

Research interests:

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

Research interests:

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

Research interests:

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

Research interests:

Ethnographic documentary; Chinese independent documentary; Socialist realistic documentary

Research interests:

Music production and disability studies.

Research interests:

Musical embodiment, music education, children and musical development, organ research, piano research, keyboard instrument rebuilding.

Research interests:

Installation art, culture elanoration, sensory engagement, multisensory museum.

Research interests:

Cross-cultural interaction, audience participation, aesthetics, immersive performance

Research interests:

Embodied cognition; String quartet; Violin performance; Schumann

Research interests:

Piano performance and education; Instrumental teaching approaches.

Research interests:

Film sound design, emotional impact on audiences, positive emotions in cinema, art therapy

Research interests:

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

Research interests:

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